Michael Andlauer

Michael Andlauer is a Canadian businessman and ice hockey club owner. He is the founder of businesses ATS Healthcare, Accuristix, Bulldog Capital Partners and Andlauer Healthcare Group. He is the CEO of Andlauer Healthcare Group. He is the owner of the Ottawa Senators National Hockey League (NHL) team which includes its farm team the Belleville Senators (AHL), and the Brantford Bulldogs Ontario Hockey League (OHL) team. He was formerly a minority owner of the Montreal Canadiens NHL team. Andlauer was born in France and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Andlauer attended York University in Toronto, but dropped out to take a job at McCain Foods. In 1991, Andlauer, by now the head of McCain's trucking operations, left the company to launch the Andlauer Transportation Services trucking company, delivering pharmaceutical products. Now known as ATS Healthcare, it now has a fleet of hundreds of vehicles and delivered the COVID-19 vaccine to locations in Canada. In 2003, Andlauer became part-owner of the Hamilton Bulldogs American Hockey League (AHL) team, the minor-league affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens. He became the majority owner of the team in the following year, and sold the team to the Canadiens in 2015. The Canadiens subsequently relocated the team, and it is now the Laval Rocket. At the same time, he bought the Belleville Bulls Ontario Hockey League junior team and moved them to Hamilton, Ontario, renaming them the Hamilton Bulldogs.