Annual Gala & Awards Dinner

Melissa Grelo is the award-winning co-host of Canada’s #1 daytime talk show, The Social on CTV. She’s interviewed the biggest celebrities and newsmakers over her 20+-year career, including reporting from the prestigious Academy Awards, one-on-one interview with former PM Justin Trudeau and launching three successful shows with Bell Media/CTV. She co-hosted the Olympics from Vancouver in 2010 and has been a huge champion of Canadian changemakers coast-to-coast. She was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019. She has won multiple Canadian Screen Awards for her broadcasting. In 2023, she put her passion for women’s health into launching her first podcast, “Aging Powerfully with Melissa Grelo” that quickly topped the podcast charts across Canada and around the world and it has remained there over the show’s three seasons. She interviews the top doctors, researchers, scientists and experts in their field to provide science-based information to her listenership of women 40+. She also loves to tackle misinformation on social media. She says her biggest role models are her octogenarian parents who have lived and thrived on their family horse farm in Caledon for the past 47 years.