Vincenzo Guzzo

As a student at Selwyn House School, Guzzo would do his homework in his father’s office at the movie theatre. He later worked as an usher, and then in other capacities in the business.

In May 2019, Guzzo submitted a bid to purchase the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He later pulled out of the running to buy the team, citing "personal conflicts with people around the deal." Guzzo later tweeted in a series of threads that he did not believe that CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie knew what he was doing during negotiations and acted "in a non transparent way and wasted my time."

Guzzo and another new investor, Lane Merrifield, join Dragons Arlene Dickinson, Manjit Minhas, Michele Romanow and Jim Treliving on the show’s 13th season, with host Dianne Buckner. The two replace Joe Mimran and Michael Wekerle.

Guzzo received national attention in 2018 when he joined the cast of the CBC Television business reality show Dragons' Den as one of the investor "Dragons" in season 13 and season 14.

The first episode of season 13 including the two new "Dragons" Vincenzo Guzzo and Lane Merrifield aired on September 20th 2018. Dragons' Den is a popular Canadian TV show on the CBC Television network, with an average of 519,000 viewers per episode in the 2017-2018 season.

Guzzo is the president and CEO of Cinémas Guzzo — the largest movie operator in Quebec, with 141 screens and 10 locations, and the third-largest in Canada. His new cinema Méga-Plex St-Jean 12 is currently being built, scheduled to open in the winter of 2019.

He has been President of APCQ (L'Association des propriétaires de cinémas du Québec)—an association of Québec cinema owners—since 2012.

Guzzo is nicknamed "Mr. Sunshine", and his outfits usually display that with wearing the colour yellow, stating, "Remember something... The sun can be warm and comforting — but if you get too close, it could burn you."

Guzzo and his wife Maria have five children (Angelo, Vittorio Emanuele, Vito, Delano and Rossella). Maria heads the Guzzo Family Foundation, founded in 2007, which raises money for the Jewish General Hospital, the Shriners Hospital and Youth Mental Health. Guzzo holds both Canadian and Italian citizenships.

He and his wife, Maria, are renowned philanthropists, giving generously to numerous hospitals and culminating in the establishment of the Guzzo Family Foundation in 2007, which is aggressively invested in cancer nanotechnology research at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and McGill University. Guzzo’s contributions have been internationally recognized as he is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, was knighted by the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and is a distinguished member of the Order of Malta.  

Vincenzo Guzzo OMRI SMOM (Italian pronunciation: [vinˈtʃɛntso ˈɡuttso] ; born 11 June 1969) is a Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and television personality. He currently serves as CEO of Cinémas Guzzo, Groupe Guzzo Construction inc., Guzzo Medical and Guzzo Hospitality. He has become also a restaurateur with the opening of a chain of Neapolitan pizzerias called Giulietta in Montreal. He and his wife raise money for charities through the Guzzo Family Foundation. Guzzo was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, he was knighted by the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and is a member of the Order of Malta.

Guzzo was born on 11 June 1969 in Montreal, the only son of Italian immigrants. Guzzo attended Selwyn House School, a private boys' school in Westmount, Quebec where his classmates included Greg Fergus and Michael Penner. A 19 September 2018 profile in the Montreal Gazette talks about his early life:

Cinémas Guzzo was started by his father, Angelo Guzzo, who remains chairman of the board. He came to Canada from Italy in 1967 and worked as a machinist for Pratt & Whitney. In 1974, he bought a movie theatre. Vincenzo Guzzo worked as an usher and in smaller roles as a student, and later joined his father in the family business in 1991. As the chain expanded in the late 1990s and new locations were established, a construction division of Cinémas Guzzo did the building and the younger Guzzo helped in their design.