Jim Treliving: Virden

Boston Pizza Dept: Jim Treliving is a kid from Virden who's now co-chairman and co-owner of Boston Pizza. He also owns controlling or non-controlling interests in a host of other businesses, including Mr. Lube, according to Winnipeg Free Press. WAYNE GLOWACKI / FILE PHOTO Jim Treliving in dark shirt meets with local Frogbox operators. Frogbox is one of the companies he has a stake in as a Dragon. But he's probably best known as the tall, avuncular venture-capital "dragon" on CBC-TV's popular reality television program Dragons' Den, where entrepreneurs in need of financing pitch their enterprises to a five-member panel of venture capitalists, in exchange for royalties or equity positions in their businesses. Enlarge Image (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.