05-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com

Who is the Montreal entrepreneur courting U.S. private equity to revive the Expos?

In 2012, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the Montreal founder of the digital media company WatchMojo, was watching the Washington Nationals, formerly the Expos. Most Montreal fans would have felt “bitter” watching, he said. But he felt something different: acceptance. The 47-year-old was on a business trip in D.C with an adviser at the time when he realized his childhood baseball team, which he long-associated with warm summer nights, were gone for good. Or so he thought. In November, he was
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