“This is a very good day,” she said in an interview. Ruken said the original founding team will continue to lead the club and oversee all the day-to-day operations. Mitchell backed that up, calling the existing management team and league leadership “second to none. “I would say in my professional 45-year career, they have to be the best I’ve ever seen,” said Mitchell, who invested in his first company at age 15. RECOMMENDED VIDEO The club’s founding partners, who had ties to North Toronto Soccer Club, were Ruken, Brenda Ha and husband Kamal Sandhu, Jill Burgin, Mike Ruthard, Billy Wilson and Shamez Mangalji. Ruken is now the club’s CEO while Wilson is the club’s sporting director and Sandhu COO. Some 30 others, including tennis player Milos Raonic and star sprinter Andre De Grasse, have since invested. All are still involved in the franchise. “I left them all in. I think it’s good for the community, I think it’s great for the team,” said Mitchell. Mitchell has five kids with the two youngest, aged five and eight, both soccer players. “We are very proud that we have found someone whose values align so well with ours, with commitment to community and to equity and to creating a really lasting impact on professional women’s sport in Toronto and in Canada,” Ruken said.