[3][5] Wekerle left Griffiths McBurney in 2011 by mutual consent, receiving a severance package in return for agreeing to a non-compete clause.
[8] In 2014, he announced the launch of a new business incubator in the Waterloo Region that would offer venture capital funding to new tech startups.
[10] In one of his first dragon deals on the series, he invested in Covergalls, a new line of workwear designed for women in industrial jobs.
He is a partner in the Canadian franchise expansion plans of Mark Wahlberg's Wahlburgers chain of restaurants,[12] and purchased El Mocambo, a live music venue in Toronto.
At a charity fundraising roast for Newcap Broadcasting CEO Rob Steele that summer, he drunkenly interrupted host Rex Murphy,[3] and in October he arrived drunk at a hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, and allegedly engaged in rowdy and disorderly behaviour.