Real estate executive Mike McGahan is among those being inducted into the Order of Ottawa at the end of November.
On Friday, the City of Ottawa announced the 2025 inductees into the order, which “recognizes exceptional citizens who have achieved the highest level of excellence and achievement in many fields of endeavour, have brought honour and prestige to themselves and made significant contributions to the community that benefit the citizens of Ottawa.”
“These individuals have done truly remarkable work in our city, and it will be my absolute honour to celebrate their achievements next month at City Hall,” said Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe in a LinkedIn post last week.
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McGahan is the executive chair and former CEO of InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) as well as president of CLV Group. He was named 2023 CEO of the Year by the Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Board of Trade.
In May, InterRent announced that CLV Group and Singapore-based investment firm GIC were offering to purchase the REIT for about $2 billion – a deal that is expected to close later this year or early in 2026.
Other inductees include:
- Patrick Newton Bondo, advisory council at Environment and Climate Change Canada and NGO representative to the United Nations
- Kenneth Campbell
- Holly Ellingwood, PhD, deputy director at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, board member of The Ottawa Hospital and vice-chair of the City of Ottawa’s Accessibility Advisory Committee
- Michael McLellan, interim vice-rector, governance and secretary general at Saint Paul University and chairman of the Vanier Community Services Centre
- Dr. Louise McNaughton-Filion, regional supervising coroner for the Ottawa office in the East Region
- Wyatt McWilliams, farmer and food insecurity advocate
- Patrick Moore, construction manager
- Suzanne Obiorah, CEO of the Somerset West Community Health Centre
- Jo-Anne Polak, former general manager of the Ottawa Roughriders
- Tahawar Rana, community development manager for the Canadian Blood Services
- Carole Saad, owner of Chic + Swell Event Designers
- Bernadette Sarazin, CEO and chief privacy officer at Etika Privacy Inc.
- Christine Trauttmansdorff, former executive director of Volunteer Ottawa
- The Honourable Jim Watson, former Mayor of Ottawa
Courtney Rego is the 2025 recipient for the Brian Kilrea Award for Coaching Excellence for her work with the Capital City Condors hockey teams.
Council established the Order of Ottawa in 2012. Recipients are chosen by a selection committee composed of the mayor, city clerk, chief of police, chief of protocol, city archivist and chief executive officer of the Ottawa Public Library.
