Max Mantha , MBA, P.Eng.

At 34 years old, civil engineer Max Mantha currently serves as the youngest-ever Vice President, Area Manager for EllisDon Toronto Civil and Looby Construction. In this role, he has facilitated public-private partnerships (P3) across Canada, which generate yearly revenue of over $200 million and employ over 200 people. In no small part, the young engineer’s success has stemmed from his talent for thinking beyond traditional infrastructure financing to provide communities across Ontario with the major projects that are critical to their economic growth. This innovate approach, along with the enormous scale of the projects it has enabled, has secured his organization’s role as a global player, attracting international engineering and construction talent and driving the company to become one of the largest builders in the country.