Founder-led
Robert Millan stays involved from the first framing conversation through the final recommendation.
02Why Senatus
Close to the decision. Accountable to the outcome.
Senatus is a founder-led Canadian boutique advisory firm based in Ottawa & Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We connect trade, finance, compliance, and transactions around the decisions leadership teams need to make.
01 / Working principles
Advisory depth without the distance.
The practice takes on focused engagements where direct founder involvement and cross-disciplinary judgment can make a practical difference.
Cross-functional
Commercial strategy, trade risk, capital, and transaction realities remain in one working model.
Execution-aware
Recommendations are tested against management capacity, counterparties, documentation, and timing.
Canadian context
Advice begins with the practical realities Canadian businesses face when operating across borders.
Research-led
Targeted market research, counterparty screening, and local market context inform partner evaluation.
Mandate-specific
The workplan is built around the decision and constraint, not a pre-packaged consulting product.
02 / Operating model
A smaller platform is useful when proximity creates leverage.
Large advisory firms can be the right answer for broad multi-jurisdictional programs. Senatus is designed for situations where focused scope, senior access, and connected judgment matter more than organizational scale.
Leadership
Robert Millan
Founder & Principal
Robert Millan founded Senatus Group after roles in Group Treasury and Global Equity Derivatives at Scotiabank. His background spans institutional finance, capital markets, and international business. He holds a Master of Finance from the Rotman School of Management.
DimensionLarge platformSenatus model
Advisory accessSpecialist delivery teams coordinated across practicesDirect access to the founder through the mandate
Scope designStandard workstreams shaped around platform offeringsFocused scope shaped around the binding decision
Working rhythmFormal stage gates and longer internal coordinationShort feedback loops from analysis to action
Cross-border lensSpecialists coordinated across separate practicesTrade, transaction, and execution issues considered together
03 / Working thesis
A market-entry recommendation must hold up operationally. A compliance view must work with sales realities. A financing path must fit the transaction and the team behind it.
Keeping those workstreams connected produces advice that is clearer to decide from and more practical to use under real-world pressure.
The Senatus approach
Focused enough to stay close. Broad enough to connect the work.
Senatus takes on focused engagements where founder involvement and connected expertise can make a practical difference. Trade, finance, compliance, and transaction considerations stay in view throughout the work.
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Connected advisory services
One platform spanning market access, partners, compliance, capital, M&A, and trade operations.
Direct
Founder involvement
Work directly with Robert Millan from the initial conversation through the recommendation.
10+
Years of professional experience
Robert Millan's background spans institutional finance, capital markets, and international business.
Canada
Based in Ottawa & Toronto
Ontario, Canada. A boutique practice connecting trade, finance, compliance, and transactions.