Patricia Saputo

Patricia Saputo, FCPA, FCA, ICD.D, TEP,  DTax, FPl, Growing up with the “SAPUTO” name was both a blessing and a challenge for Patricia: a blessing because the name was very reputable in the province of Quebec where she grew up, and a challenge because people just assumed that coming from a successful and wealthy family, life was easy and full of opportunities.Her father, Francesco Saputo, advocated that education was very important and that it would make his daughters self-reliant and not be taken advantage of by others.  With that advice, Patricia became a CPA, and furthered her education in tax, investments, life insurance and succession planning.After leaving Deloitte in 1998, she began a new path that allowed her to manage the patrimony of her immediate family in pioneering the startup of the family’s “Family Office” that further developed into the areas of family governance, managing wealth as it is transitioned to future generation so they become responsible stewards of their own wealth.This allowed her to pioneer and launch the “Family Wealth Program” with Concordia University and with Queens University.  She is very generous with her time as she sits on a variety of boards and advisory committees. Sheis also a regular speaker at a number of International Forums.  She has been invited to speak on numerous occasions in the areas of family wealth, women and wealth, education, philanthropy and financial literacy.  She believes that education is an incomplete process which is why she considers herself a “life-learner”. She recently married Angelo Caparelli and is raising her 3 boys, Francesco (1996), Lorenzo (1998) and Tommaso (2005).