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He has written early cheques into Toronto technology companies for more than a decade and chairs the capital corporation that formalized how Maple Leaf Angels invests,…

He has built and led Canadian trade programs on four continents, from West Africa to Western India to France, and knows which doors open for Canadian exporters in mark…

He has spent his career on the deal side of technology, running M&A, venture investments and strategic alliances at HubSpot and Jawbone before taking on Microsoft's la…

Peter MacFadzean

Senior Innovation Advisor · Innovation Canada

Toronto & Penetanguishene, Canada

Peter knows how federal and provincial innovation programs actually work, and how to get a company, a university lab and a government department into the same room.

Happy to help with Navigating government support programs at any level; connecting you to the right people.

He spends his days convincing international companies to set up or expand in Greater Montréal, which means he knows what the city's AI and tech sector offers an invest…

Yohan Mahimwala

Senior Manager / Department Manager, Commercial Credit Adjudication (Central Canada) · RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)

Toronto, Canada

He knows how small business and commercial credit decisions actually get made at Canada's largest bank, and he has sat on the other side of that table as an owner seek…

Matt has been the person a global platform trusts to open and run a country: he took Snap's Canadian operation from a new country manager seat to a full general manage…

Alexandra McGregor

Chief Program Officer · NEXT Canada

Toronto, Canada

She decides how Canada's most ambitious young founders are selected and coached, and she has worked directly with the founders of some of Canada's top startups.

Happy to help with Building communities and curating experiences around entrepreneurship & innovation

Chris McLellan

AI-Forward Marketing Consultant · Chris McLellan Ltd. / Ask AI

Ottawa, Canada

Chris McLellan is an Ottawa-native and a tech marketer with a proven record of growth, built over 15 years with innovative startups based in London, UK and Canada, fro…

He has taken a company from two founders to an acquisition by a US insurance giant, and he now decides which early-stage companies get funded out of one of Canada's be…

He has built enterprise data governance and AI practices for global industries, and he has incorporated and run Ontario companies across consulting, hardware and food…

Melissa has spent her career in lending aimed at financial institutions, and she knows how card and credit products are built, positioned and taken to market on both s…

Peter Nixon

Founder / Professor / Keynote Speaker and Facilitator · Potential Dialogue

Hong Kong, China

He has sat in on negotiations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, India, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, and has trained more than 600 companies across…

LAING Patrice

Verdun, Canada

Patrice knows who buys media in Quebec and how campaigns get made there, from strategy and creative through production, distribution and measurement.

She sources and diligences early-stage fintech deals and handles the transactional side herself, a habit carried over from years practising corporate law.

She has done the whole arc of a Canadian company: starting one from nothing, scaling programs into every province and territory, and closing it out through a merger.

Ramin has seen money markets from three sides: a central bank's research desk, a hedge fund and a bank's capital markets floor, and he now works where finance meets da…

He turns engineering students into founders and has done it himself, taking Gray Wolf from a Fredericton classroom idea to a company detecting cryptocurrency crime for…

He has spent two decades in sales, business development and partnerships, and knows how a relationship in one market turns into revenue in another.

Siybauco sits at the point where a bank's marketing spend meets its data: as Director, Campaign Analytics at BMO, he is responsible for campaigns tied to multimillion-…

Matt knows how Canadian media budgets actually get spent: who buys programmatic, which agencies hold the relationships, and where the ad tech stack helps or gets in th…

He has sat on both sides of an analytics deal: building a services business from nothing and then running analytics inside a large manufacturer that buys it.

She is an international affairs, economic diplomacy, and digital policy professional with experience connecting Canadian investors, business leaders, and government st…

Happy to help with Government Affairs Specialist

He knows what it takes to keep a cloud product running and audit-ready at the same time, from compliance programs to cloud and AI security.