Family owned and operated, the Aquilini Investment Group of Vancouver is one of British Columbia's most diversified local enterprises. Founded more than 50 years ago by Luigi Aquilini, an immigrant to Canada from Brescia, Italy, the firm has a diversified national real estate portfolio that includes commercial properties, office buildings, hotels, golf courses, restaurants, and cranberry and blueberry farms. The family also develops commercial and residential properties for sale nationwide.

In 2004, the family purchased 50 per cent of the Vancouver Canucks, General Motors Place and their parent organization, Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment (now Canucks Sports & Entertainment). In 2006, they returned the team to 100 per cent local ownership when they bought the balance of the organization.

While day-to-day operations of the firm have passed to his sons, Francesco, Roberto and Paolo, Luigi Aquilini continues to play an active and mentoring role in the organization he created.

Committed to the communities where they live and do business, the Aquilini family has been significantly involved in a number of worthwhile community projects, including chairing and funding the Italian Gardens at Vancouver's Hastings Park, helping to create a 100 hectare nature conservancy named for the family in British Columbia's Fraser Valley and donating funds to the "Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund" to help foster research for a cure.

Together, Francesco, Roberto and Paolo, and their families, are also active corporate and community fundraisers for the Canucks for Kids Fund, the signature charity of the Vancouver Canucks.