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Jonathan Abrams

Jonathan Abrams

Co-founder and General Partner · 8-Bit Capital

San Francisco, United States

Previously Jonathan was the founder of Nuzzel and Friendster, and a software engineer at Netscape and Nortel. 8-Bit Capital is a high-conviction investor in inception-…

Chris Albinson

Chris Albinson

Co-Founder & Managing Partner · True North Fund

Waterloo, Canada

Chris Albinson drives growth in Canada's tech scene through leadership at Communitech and the True North Fund backing top Canadian tech firms.

Happy to help with Supporting founders between $20M-$1B in revenue - working on growth at scale & at speed

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JP Beaudry

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder · NEXTGRES

JP Beaudry is co-founder and CTO of NEXTGRES, which makes Postgres run MySQL workloads without a line of code rewritten, after serving as CTO of edX, 2U and JustAnswer.

Barb Bidan

Barb Bidan

Chief People Officer | Executive Coach · Back Deck Partners | People Tech Partners | Wisq | Twill | PinnacleAI

Dallas, United States

Barb Bidan is a seasoned HR leader with significant contributions to Canadian tech including roles at BlackBerry and Communitech.

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Karen Budahazy

Independent Advisor (Payments & Embedded Finance); Board Advisor, Open Finance Network Canada · Open Finance Network Canada (OFNC)

Toronto, Canada

Karen knows the issuing side of Canadian fintech from the inside: how cards get sponsored, how programs clear regulatory and CDIC questions, and who at a bank has to s…

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Martin Byrne

Martin Byrne

Managing Partner · Bank of Montreal

Toronto, Canada

Martin brings 25 years of experience scaling digital operations and delivering products across SaaS, media, healthcare, fintech and public sectors.

Happy to help with Scaling you SaaS Ops

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Yoli Chisholm

Senior Vice President of Marketing / Head of Marketing · Deriv (also runs Yoliswa Ventures, fractional CMO consultancy)

Toronto, Canada

Yoli has run marketing at Microsoft in the US, at Sprinklr in New York and at an online trading platform Deriv in Dubai, and she now takes Series A companies from prod…

Happy to help with AI for Marketing, GTM Strategy and Brand Positioning, Building mobile apps with AI

Lucy Chow

Lucy Chow

Director, Women's Angel Investor Network (WAIN); Investor & Author · Women's Angel Investor Network (WAIN)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Influential Canadian leader in global innovation and investment championing diversity in tech and gaming.

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Lawrence Chu

Senior Advisor (formerly Co-Chair of Global M&A / senior partner) · Goodwin Procter LLP

San Francisco, United States

Canadian-educated legal expert shaping global tech M&A.

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Sara Cooper

Chief People Officer · Jobber

Toronto, Canada

Sara is an expert in scaling and high growth companies having advised the OMERS Ventures portfolio on their talent strategies and working inside notable firms such as…

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Dharti Desai Chatterjee

Chief Marketing Officer · Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC) and BHive

Oakville, Canada

She knows what it takes for a founder from India or the Gulf to land in Canada and start selling here, and she has built the demand engines at the two Ontario programs…

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Peter Faist

Founder and CEO · Staffy (Staffy Health / Staffy Canada Inc.)

Toronto, Canada

He knows what it takes to fill a shift at a long-term care home at short notice: vetting and supply on one side, hospitals, retirement homes and home care buyers on th…

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Philippe Frappier

Founder & Principal · Frappier & Partners

Toronto, Canada

He has spent his career placing leaders for founders and entrepreneurs, and knows the Toronto talent market from the recruiting side of several firms.

Happy to help with Solving technology & talent challenges

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Chris McLellan

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…

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Kumaran Nadesan

Co-Founder and Deputy Chairman · 369 Global

Brampton, Canada

Leader in workforce development and media co-founder of 369 Global enhancing Canada's economic growth and multicultural integration.

Chris Papp

Chris Papp

Founder & CEO · TransPacific Trade Nexus (TPTN)

Montreal, Canada

Chris brings more than 25 years of hands-on experience building and operating international businesses, navigating complex supply chains, and turning commercial opport…

Happy to help with Navigating international expansion, sourcing, suppliers and cross-border trade challenges.

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Jamie Read

Founder and CEO · BriteBirch Collective

Ottawa, Canada

Innovative leader in Canada's marketing sector offering agile solutions for mid-sized companies.

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Stephane Rossi

CEO & Co-founder · Mission (Mission.dev)

Montreal, Canada

CEO of Mission.dev enhancing Canada's tech industry by connecting companies with top software engineers via AI-driven hiring.

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Melissa Sariffodeen

Co-Founder (former CEO, exited 2025) · Canada Learning Code

London, Ontario, Canada

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.

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Ambar Shante

Product & Operations Leader · Zypher

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ambar Shante has significantly contributed to the Canadian startup ecosystem by launching and scaling venture-backed startups in Toronto.

Henry Shi

Henry Shi

Board Member (former Co-Founder, COO & CTO) · Super.com

San Francisco, United States

He is currently focused on building frontier AI

Daniel Sieberg

Daniel Sieberg

Founder and CEO · ScreenGeni.us

New York, United States

Few people have sat on both sides of the tech story: he has explained AI, quantum, blockchain, and consumer tech to network television audiences, and he has built the…

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Chand Sooran

Founder & CEO · EdgeworthBox, Inc.

New York, United States

He has priced and managed risk on trading desks in Canada, the US and Europe, then invested in distressed and special situations.

Happy to help with Assessing systems integrators for supply chain tech implementations

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Siera Torontow

Co-founder and Managing Director · Work Health Experts

Health advocate and co-founder enhancing corporate social impact and women's health.

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