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Ann Kaplan is the president and CEO of iFinance Canada. An award-winning businesswoman, media personality, and popular speaker, Kaplan has hosted several television shows, one of them happens to be Global's NYtv, a television show that features cosmetic medical procedures and makeovers; Kaplan is currently hosting CosmedicTv.

Books
Ann Kaplan is the author of four books: “The Fashion Cares”, “If you don’t laugh you’ll cry”, “The InterNet,” and “Best Practices."

iFinance Canada
Ann Kaplan is the President and CEO of Finance Canada, established in 1996, which is located in Toronto, and Vancouver. iFinance provides small ticket (average $4500) consumer loans of which are available through more than 10,000 Service Providers across Canada that offer their products to consumers. They offer Medical, Dental, Veterinary, and Home improvement financing.

Awards
Kaplan can be seen in hundreds of publications to this day, including two University textbook case studies on entrepreneurship. Kaplan has received numerous awards including a finalist for the E & Y Entrepreneur of the Year, 2013; and the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the year Award, 2000; the Peak Award of Excellence in Finance, 2001; seven times placement on the Canadian W100 list (Top 100 Companies); nine times (2005-2013) on the Canada's Profit Top 100 Companies; and was also recognized as one of Canada's most inspirational women in 2007 and was recently named one of Canada's top three Female Business Leaders and three times as Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and was placed in to the WXN Hall of Fame in 2014. Canada's Mompreneur of The Year 2009; and also well as received the top honor internationally for a Stevie Awards for Best Entrepreneur/Women in Business 2009 and is the winner of both the 2011 and 2013 Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year and International Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011, and 2014. In 2015, Kaplan was awarded the WIMA (Women in Management Award) at the Rotman School of Business.

Education
Kaplan has a MBA, Corporate Governance Designation (ICD.d)a MSc ,and is completing her PhD Thesis in Business and (DBA) Doctor of Business Administration at Henley Business School, University of Reading.