Brookfield Corporation is a Toronto-based conglomerate with interests in several areas including asset management, real estate, renewable energy, infrastructure, and insurance. The company has about $490 billion in assets.

Intact is the largest property/casualty (P&C) insurer in Canada, with a market share of over 20% after its takeover of the Canadian operations of UK insurer RSA in 2021. The acquisition extended Intact’s geographical reach as it included the UK and Irish operations of RSA, which had lower margins than Intact.

At the end of 2023, Intact sold its UK personal lines business to Admiral for £83 million, with another £33 million in earnout provisions. It acquired Direct Line Insurance brokered commercial platform for approximately £500 million, leaving it with 95% of its UK business in commercial lines.

Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Fisher is a leading manufacturer of scientific instrumentation including laboratory and health monitoring equipment. It also provides software and services to the healthcare, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as to governments and academia. The annual revenue is over $45 billion.

Stryker Corp. is a Fortune 500 medical technology company with a market capitalization of about $130 billion. It is based in Michigan but operates in 75 countries and employs more than 53,000 people. The company has three main product lines. The orthopedics segment provides hip and knee implants. The medical surgical segment sells surgical equipment, including robots and other navigational aids, as well as emergency medical equipment and disposable products. The neurotechnology segment provides products for brain and skull surgery.

Microsoft is a major American technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It is best known for the Windows operating system, Microsoft 365, and the Azure cloud platform. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The CEO is Satya Nadella.