Ann Kaplan Mulholland

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ann Kaplan Mulholland

• Ann Kaplan Mulholland was raised by her stepfather, Don Ho, in British Columbia, Canada. She met her biological father, Berne Hal-Mann, at the age of 17.

• Her mother later remarried a dentist named Richard Roseborough.

• She once brought a girl to Canada from Ethiopia for life-saving surgery and adopted her.

• She has 17 siblings overall from the mean her mother married.

• During her teenage years, she competed in the lightweight category as a bodybuilder and even finished second in the two provincial tournaments.

• She once started the Honolulu marathon, but quit after 3 miles.

• She had 2 children from her first husband, but he left when the children were 21 months and 9 months old.

• She later started working, and her first job was in interior design when she took care of her children during the day and visited job sites at night.

• At the time, the Canadian government was changing the medical systems, so she saw an opportunity and started her medical finance company named iFinance.

• 323 banks turned down her loan application before the Bank of Montreal approved her first $5 million (£2.8m) loan. She further got a $140 million (£79 million) loan from various other sources.

• She never told anyone that she was a single mother but kept working and made it into a $2 billion company before selling it in 2022.

• She has also worked with various writers and authored 6 books, which include If You Don’t Laugh, You’ll Cry, The Internet, Best Practices, Fashion Cares and How to be Successful in Spite of Yourself.

• She does not like watching TV.

• She is a registered inspirational speaker with the National Speakers Bureau.

• She loves cooking and can cook Thai food.

• She has travelled a lot and has over 2,000,000 miles with Air Canada.

• She likes to do things to the extreme.

• She likes fashion and once bought a purse worth $30,000.