Matt Boczkowski

Chief Executive Officer

Aquaporin

James Nguyen

Co-Founder & CEO

Quantropi

James, born and raised in Ottawa, is a Ottawa Top Forty under 40 recipient and is the Co-Founder and CEO of a quantum AI cybersecurity company – Quantropi, a NATO approved supplier, 2022 Deloitte Fast 50 company and 2023 Future In Review – FiRe Starters recipient. As an emerging leader in emerging industries, he has been privileged to have worked alongside some of the greatest minds in the industry when it comes to emerging deep-tech such as fin-tech, new material sciences, quantum and AI.

He has travelled extensively globally and has built a strong network in emerging markets. With his background in investments and banking he has been an active investor in early-stage companies while speaking at global events to help bring technologies to market that will make the world better.

Kapil Dev Ramgirwar

Co-Founder & CFO

Rosseau Immersion

Kapil is the co-founder and CFO of Rosseau Group, a company focused on reengineering immersion-cooled data centers. Rosseau’s solutions offer unrivaled efficiency and sustainability, expanding the potential of high-performance computing in areas such as artificial intelligence, edge computing, the Internet of Things, and Bitcoin mining. With 20 years of experience in big 4 professional services, Kapil has provided assurance services to public and private financial institutions, including central and commercial banks, multibillion-dollar hedge funds, and private equity funds. He also developed and led the crypto assurance services with a big 4 professional services firm. Kapil is a CPA, CA, and holds a CFA charter.

Bruce M. Hodges

CEO

Parachute

Bruce has had a progressive international career in all areas of financial services; Banking, Insurance, and Investments. Over the first 10 years of his career Bruce worked in retail banking for several of Canada’s top Banks working his way up from Teller to Personal Lender, Commercial Lender, and ultimately Product Manager with a $4B credit portfolio. During this time Bruce completed his MBA, published research for the Canadian Bankers Association, and taught E-commerce Strategy in Wilfrid Laurier University’s MBA program.

In 1998, Bruce left the corporate world and joined a 20-person start-up to take on-line credit adjudication to market. The start-up built credit solutions for the likes of National Bank, Fair Isaac, and Ford Credit globally. He facilitated a sale of the company to a publicly traded entity and continued the journey including raising $40M in equity.

On leaving the dot-com world, Bruce began a 20-year corporate stretch in Insurance, initially joining Manulife to build out their global e-commerce strategy and moving to several global roles with the likes of Generali, Sunlife and ING. This journey relocated he and his family to Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, The Netherlands, and Italy in roles spanning CIO, COO, CIDO and CEO overseeing more than 60 different countries at various stages of his career.

After his final stint in Europe as CIDO (Chief Information & Digital Officer) at Generali, overseeing IT, Operations and Digital for the $70B, 60 Country Insurer, Bruce returned to Canada mid-2018. After his return, Bruce was COO of Foresters Financial, and EVP Transformation at CIBC, one of Canada’s top 5 banks. Since leaving CIBC in April 2021, Bruce founded Parachute, a start-up set to disrupt the financial wellness space taking on payday, and high interest predatory lenders, with the intent to bring at risk Canadians back from the brink to good financial health.

Prathna Ramesh

VP Operations

FutureSight Ventures

Prathna is an early-stage investor and operator in B2B SaaS companies. She is currently a VP of Operations at FutureSight, a venture builder fund that backs entrepreneurs as an institutional cofounder with capital. She is the former Managing Director of Maple Leaf Angels in Toronto, one of Canada’s most active angel networks. She served as GP (General Partner) of the MLA48 pre-seed funds and is currently the Chief Compliance Officer. She is active in the founder community as a business advisor and is an advocate for women in venture.

Lakhveer Jajj

CEO & Founder

Moselle

Diving into the venture world and having helped co-found various startups, including a commerce development shop called Sunview Labs, he joined CareGuide as a foundational member of the team and led their nanny tax payroll product called HeartPayroll.

Following CareGuide, Lakhveer joined Highline Beta to help launch their venture studio and various ventures, including Relay, which was recently acquired.

Reza Khanahmadi

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Rondeivu Inc.

Alik Sokolov

Co-Founder & CEO

Responsibli

Alik’s experience spans the fields of finance and AI in industry and academia. Alik spent 6 years in Deloitte consulting as an ML team lead, and a year at Mithril Capital as a venture capitalist investor.

He is also an accomplished researcher, having published works on applying deep learning to financial time series as well as for ESG investing. The latter set of algorithms is the backbone of Responsibli.

Ajay Rao

CFO

Chandaria Family Holdings, Inc.

Ajay is a seasoned family office and wealth management executive with a strong track record in managing and growing family wealth and investments. In a leadership role with a UHNW family business, he established their Family Office from scratch, implementing streamlined processes and risk management protocols. Previously, Ajay, a CPA from Ontario and India, held key Corporate Financial Leadership roles in India, Mauritius, and South Africa. Furthermore, Ajay serves as the Vice-Chair of FEI Canada’s Private Company Committee’s Family Business Thought Leadership Group.

Skip Cooper

Managing Director

Cooper Family Office

Skip Cooper is a first-generation member of the Cooper Family Office. Skip oversees risk management, portfolio allocation and back office operations. In addition to the office’s US-based alternative investing, his primary focus for the family office is investment internationally: in private equity, hedge funds, real estate and direct opportunities. Mr. Cooper is an honors graduate of Princeton University.

Skip Cooper is a member of the NYU Stern Family Office Council and the Stanford University Global Projects Center Global Investor’s Forum. Skip speaks regularly at family office and investment conferences around the world, often addressing the topic of global investing for US family offices.

Ian Garmaise

Chief Operating Officer

Virtual Film School

Ian Garmaise, COO of Virtual Film School, has a strong background in Edtech, and has worked in a variety of roles at various startups, and as an IT and Marketing Consultant.

Ryan Wallace

Co-Founder

Snowshoe.ai

Ryan Wallace is the CEO and co-founder of Snowshoe.ai. He is a Y-combinator alumnus with multiple successful exits. Ryanstudied electronic engineering and consults on applying artificial intelligence in the Enterprise.

Hudhaifah Zahid

Co-Founder & CEO

Econommi

Hudhaifah is a blockchain engineer turned co-founder & CEO of econommi. He is on a mission to transition the world away from debt, towards assets instead. Personally affected by a broken credit system, he believes we can all do better. His work brings a fresh, systemic perspective on money, society and incentives. His team has engineered a more equitable financial instrument for vehicle loans. They hope to expand this to all sorts of assets and contracts in the near future.

Tim Burgess

Co-Founder & CEO

WealthAgile

Senior financial executive, with 20 years of experience in institutional equity sales and portfolio management. Recently ran the Spartan onTREND Fund, where he built a fully systematic momentum strategy.

Mukul Pal

Founder & CEO

AlphaBlock

Mukul has spent over 20 years in global financial markets, in investment management capacities, working from 2000-2004 for the Bombay Stock Exchange, HDFC Securities, and various financial institutions in India, from 2005-2010 consulting European asset managers and securities divisions of financial institutions like Société Générale, Raiffeisen, Uniqua Insurance, Bucharest Stock Exchange, Bank of Transilvania and starting 2011 building Smart Beta Investing solutions for asset owners and asset managers in North America. He has published extensively, filed several patents, holds an MBA in Finance, a master’s in applied econometrics and statistics, the CMT and CAIA designations, and has been awarded a top fintech award from MIT in 2016. In his current role, he runs AlphaBlock, a Deep Tech company that in its first application builds Indexes and Exchange Traded Funds.

Yaron Vorona

Founder

Vorona Ventures

Yaron Vorona is a serial founder turned VC, Backing Innovators Building Abundance. Yaron has spent the past 15 Years working in finance and strategy for Deep-Tech ventures, raising over $55m. He co-founded companies in the cybersecurity, AI, blockchain, and defense sectors. His global network stems from his experience working in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. Yaron holds an MBA from the London Business School, and a BSc in Physics and Business from the University of Waterloo. He’s a Father, Explorer, Connector, and Personal Excellence Practitioner.

John Davitsky

Co-Founder

Golden Hawk Financial (GHF)

John is Co-Founder of Golden Hawk Financial (GHF) based in Toronto.  The company helps clients by connecting interesting ideas to interesting capital and vice versa. GHF focuses on alternative investments including AI, Tokenization, Sustainable Energy, Digital Assets, and Real Estate Development.

John started his career as a Financial Advisor at Caldwell Securities in Toronto in 2009. In this role he was responsible for managing investments for families, corporations and other high net-worth individuals. He progressed through the organization gaining experience in alternative investments, brokering private equity deals, placing shares in late stage pre-IPO companies and investing in digital assets.  In recent years John moved into trading, becoming Head Trader, and finally Vice President, where, as a high touch trader he traded $1B-$1.5B daily for the firm’s largest client.

In 2022, he joined Echelon Wealth Partners, where he worked with their Electronic Trading group to help lead a digital asset project with Fidelity Clearing Canada. This project developed a product to hold digital assets for clients on Fidelity’s balance sheet in a traditional finance model. 

Golden Hawk Financial was born out of a vision to create exciting and unique opportunities for its clients in the alternative investment space.

Robert Guo

President

Sixty Degree Capital

Mr. Robert Guo, President of “Sixty Degree Capital”-Venture Capital investment firm,  a seasoned insightful financial executive, and business leader with international market development skills with extensive experience in public and private companies as Board member, executive and advisor. Former:  Board Director of “China Wind Power” (TSX-V: CNW), and Board Director of “Environmental Waste International Inc. “(TSX-V: EWS). CEO of Goldenmount Capital International Inc. Investment Advisor at “BMO Nesbitt Burns” and Senior Associate at “TD”,  MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University.

Shael Soberano

Chief Investment Officer

Sharno Group

Ali Yahyaoui

CEO

LexiComply

Dedicated professional with a strong academic background and practical experience in launching successful startup ventures. Adept at leveraging innovation and technology to drive growth. Master’s degree in Applied Entrepreneurship and hands-on involvement in multiple startup initiatives showcase a solid foundation for transforming ideas into thriving businesses.

Matthew He

Investment Analyst

Brightspark Ventures

Matt is an Investment Analyst at Brightspark Ventures, Canada’s oldest VC firm backing exceptional entrepreneurs at the early stage. Brightspark is actively investing out of its $120M Fund IV, leading Seed and Series A rounds across Canada.

Prior to Brightspark, Matt served for two years as the Director of Investments for Front Row Ventures, investing at pre-seed in the very best young founders across the Canadian ecosystem. He has previously worked at White Star Capital in New York and FounderFuel in Montreal. 

Marcus Daniels

Founding Partner & CEO

Highline Beta

Marcus Daniels is a Founding Partner & CEO of Highline Beta where he leads visionary execution, strategic deals, corporate venture co-investment and startup funding. He has 21+ years as a serial tech entrepreneur & operating executive with a top decile pre-seed investing (34 startups) track record. 12+ years working with Fortune 1000 companies advising on corporate innovation models & building a pipeline of new corporate ventures beyond the core business. Formerly the Co-Founder & CEO of HIGHLINE.vc and Managing Director of Extreme Startups, Marcus continues to help evolve accelerator models to make corporate-startup collaboration work.

Jason Chertin

Partner

McMillan LLP

Jason Chertin is an accomplished corporate finance lawyer with a dynamic capital markets and securities law practice and extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions. Structuring and executing a variety of capital market transactions, Jason advises on public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions with emphasis on negotiated transactions, plans of arrangement and amalgamations, and stock exchange listings. He is a leader of the firm’s Investment Funds & Asset Management Group.

Jason acts for issuers, underwriters, investment funds and asset managers in addition to stakeholders in the cannabis and mining sectors. He advises on public and exempt securities offerings, takeover bids, business combinations, reverse takeovers, qualifying transactions, reorganizations, proxy contests and related party transactions.
A significant part of Jason’s practice involves advising investment fund managers and portfolio advisers on public and exempt offerings of securities by open-end mutual funds, closed-end investment funds, commodity pools and pooled funds. He also assists with dealer and adviser registration and compliance matters.

Jason’s experience in securities regulatory work encompasses proxy solicitation, corporate governance, continuous disclosure, preparation for annual and special meetings of shareholders, compliance with NI 81-102 and IRC requirements, prospectus renewals, and applications to regulatory authorities for exemptive relief.

Harris Lambouris

Board Member / Director

Laertes Health

Harris is the Founding Partner and CEO of Laertes Health LLP, a private investment company aiming to develop healthcare projects in the MENA region. Sets standards of excellence and alignment of the company’s vision and strategy. Collaborates with family offices to develop the business, creating opportunities and maintaining professional excellence.

He is also a partner with hhm-consult, an advisory practice. As a trusted partner of choice continuously looks for innovations and improvements. Builds senior level networks and relationships with clients and partners. Engages and advises startup companies and green field projects helping them achieve their goals and objectives during the business cycle.

He has many years of international experience in management consulting/strategy. He combines the financial rigor of a Big 4 firm with the analytical skills and people leadership experience. Led healthcare strategy and directed projects during their planning, design and development stage. Served as a member of Deloitte (LSHC) Team for almost 10 years in MENA region. During his tenure he led the operational and commercial advisory and led large scale pre & post transaction projects.

His education includes: Corporate Financial Strategy at INSEAD Business School, France; MSc in Management Research, Cardiff, UK; and MBA in Finance Adelphi University, New York.

Sebastien Davies

VP, Research

Aquanow

As VP, Research at Aquanow and Market Strategist at AQN Digital, Sebastien Davies focuses on industry analysis, investment management, and growth initiatives. He joined from CIBC Capital Markets, where he held roles in Institutional Equity & Derivatives Sales. Prior thereto, Sebastien conducted research and risk management at a long/short hedge fund.

Dan Ryan

Investor Relations

Creative Ventures