-: Avik, it's great to have you here.
Thank you for joining.
-: My pleasure.
-: So Avik, you've had probably the most varied career
of anybody I know, from founder and operator
of a hockey team, founder of an energy company
in South America, to an investor,
to now the CEO of Capital Power,
and I think I'm missing three or four
other career steps in there.
How has that journey shaped who you are
and positioned you to take on the immense responsibility
of serving as a public company CEO?
-: One of the things I'm most grateful for
is in my career, I've always had mentors and bosses
who have always owned my outcome as much,
if not more, as I did, and that's what's given me
the opportunity to have all of these incredible experiences
and actually be liberated enough
to go take risk and try new things.
And so I've been able to surround myself
with people much smarter, much better than I am,
and really ride that wave of
doing great things, creating, building, growing,
and that's something I put a great deal of value on.
-: Do you ever think about how the actions
you're taking today will live beyond your tenure as CEO?
-: I think I always think about the future.
My goal has always been come in
and orient around a North Star, capture a group of people
with great ideas and the ambition
to do great things, and then create a movement.
Because an idea is nothing but words on a page,
but if you can catalyze a group of people around it,
you create something that's much bigger than yourself.
So for me, it's really about that.
It's if I can look back on my own career
and say I was part of something great,
about building something great, then you've created
an ecosystem of individuals that all feel the same.
There's nothing better than that.
-: Avik, there's two things that make your eyes light up.
One, power markets.
Two is when
you talk to me about your family.
What advice do you have for young people
that are about to enter the workforce
based on this phenomenal journey that you've been on?
-: For me, it's absolutely be curious.
Be curious, engage, have conversations,
because these types of interactions are irreplaceable.
That human interaction of talking to people,
learning from people, being curious enough to ask questions,
not being afraid to say the stupid thing,
that, for me, is always the biggest piece of advice,
which is be curious and be unafraid.
-: Avik, I enjoy every conversation we have.
This has been no exception.
Thanks so much for making time for us.
-: Thank you. That was fantastic.