Elan Roiz is a Montreal-based entrepreneur, lawyer, and family office principal. Born in Israel in 1977 to Soviet-Ukrainian immigrant parents — both engineers — he grew up in the West Island suburbs of Montreal after his family immigrated to Canada in 1980. He earned his law degree from McGill University in 2004, and was called to the Quebec Bar in February 2006. He is fluent in English, French, and Russian.

His professional career is the story of CEATI International — the Canadian Electricity Association Technologies Inc. — a specialized engineering and management consultancy serving electric power utilities across North America. His father founded CEATI in January 2000 as a spin-off from the Canadian Electricity Association, where he had led the R&D division for a decade. Elan became the company’s pro bono legal counsel within days of starting law school, joined full-time upon his bar call in 2006, and over the following fifteen years took on progressively greater operational and strategic control.

CEATI operated on a subscription model: utilities paid an annual fee to participate in specialized technical programs covering every segment of the power grid — transmission, distribution, hydro generation, asset management, protection and control, and more. Each program paired member utilities with a senior independent consultant and, crucially, with one another. The peer network that formed around the table became as valuable as the technical deliverables themselves. Retention rates reached approximately 95%, and any utility that remained a member for five or more years almost never left.

By the time of the exit, CEATI was working with virtually every major utility in Canada and a substantial portion of those in the United States — including ConEdison, the New York Power Authority, Florida Power and Light, and the Tennessee Valley Authority — as well as a growing international client base. The portfolio at exit was roughly 30% Canadian, 55% American, and 15% international. In September 2020, a private equity firm approached CEATI, attracted by the subscription model and its industry-leading retention profile. The transaction closed February 19, 2021.

Since the exit, Elan has been managing the family office and assessing his next operational move — patient, selective, and clear-eyed about the difference between activity and value. He serves on the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University through the Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University and is engaged in philanthropic work. He is married with two young sons and is based in Hampstead, Quebec.