Ontario'sfutureisbeingwritten.Makesureyourindustryisintheroom.
Keythos Advisory is a government relations and public affairs practice built on relationships with Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and senior officials at Queen's Park, deployed across arts and culture, construction, and digital assets.
One playbook, three sectors.
The same government relations discipline, grounded in direct access, legislative monitoring, and advocacy that moves a file, applied wherever it's needed most.
Arts & Culture
Keythos Advisory's founding practice: government relations for Ontario's cultural institutions as they compete for provincial and federal funding in a tightening fiscal environment.
- Government relations for major arts, screen, and performing-arts institutions
- Coalition and stakeholder campaigns aligning multiple organizations behind one ask
- Queen's Park receptions and executive briefing preparation
- Funding-ask strategy, from Treasury Board submissions to committee testimony
Construction & Development
Government relations and field-level operating support for builders, contractors, and trades navigating municipal approvals, permitting, labour policy, and provincial funding programs.
- Government relations for infrastructure and development clients
- Business development and grant-writing strategy
- Crew, vendor, and site coordination: the operational side, not just the policy side
- Positioning ahead of municipal and provincial regulatory change
Digital Assets & Blockchain
Government outreach and regulatory strategy for digital-asset ventures operating in an oversight environment that is still being written, built on direct experience with Ontario's lobbying and compliance rules for emerging technology.
- Government outreach and relationship-building with relevant ministries and officials
- Regulatory strategy and compliance navigation, including Ontario's Lobbyists Registration Act
- Business development support as ventures move toward Canadian market entry
- Confidential engagement structuring for early-stage and pre-disclosure files
On both sides of the file.
Every engagement starts with a shared document that maps the milestones we are working toward over the next three to six months — key meetings, regulatory touchpoints, and advocacy deliverables. This is a live document. We update it as the file moves, so you always know exactly where things stand and what is coming next.
Identify which ministries, officials, and regulatory levers actually govern your file, and where the political risk sits. If funding is a goal, we also produce a funding scan: a structured review of the grant and loan programs your organization is eligible for, ranked by fit and timing, so the ask is always pointed at the right door.
Direct outreach to Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and senior staff, backed by briefing materials written to be acted on. Every meeting is prepared for and followed up on — access without follow-through does not move a file.
Meetings and relationships are a means, not the deliverable. The target is funding secured, approvals granted, or regulatory clarity achieved — and the engagement path tracks progress toward that result at every step.
Numbers from the file, not the pitch deck.
Built over three years advising Ontario's arts, culture, and regulated-sector clients at the senior level, now applied across all three practice areas.
Keyaan Nejad
Keyaan has built his career in the rooms where these decisions get made. He started with grassroots campaign work during university and went on to manage several campaigns afterward, served as Vice President of a non-partisan campus political club, and worked in a constituent office. From there he moved into both the Ministry of Colleges & Universities and the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, then became senior advisor at PAA Advisory, where he ran government relations for a twelve-client portfolio spanning arts, infrastructure, and transportation. Along the way, he has built an extensive and powerful network.
That network now translates into direct relationships with Ministers, senior staff, and Deputy Ministers. Keyaan brings the same discipline to legislative monitoring and to building advocacy materials that actually move a file, the approach that built Keythos Advisory's founding practice in arts and culture. As the firm expands, that same discipline is extending into construction and digital assets: two sectors where the regulatory environment is either tightening or still being written, and where the companies that get ahead of it are the ones that win.
Senior counsel, across every front.
Keythos Advisory is supported by a board of advisors who bring direct experience at the highest levels of government, law, finance, and industry.
Doug Brewer
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Ardeshir Zarezade
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Arya Torabi
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Tell me about your file.
Confidential by default. If you're navigating government at any level, municipal, provincial, or federal, this is worth a short call.
Keythos Advisory is based in Toronto and works across Queen's Park and, where files require it, Parliament Hill.