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Michael has been the CEO in the chair, at Filld, Zerve and Travelport's consumer business, and has founded, acquired, invested in and sold companies, so he reads a gro…

Lauren Cappell

Independent AI Consultant (Applied AI / Legal AI) · Self-employed

Toronto, Canada

She knows how legal work actually gets done and how AI products get bought, having taken SageMaker to market at AWS, shaped long-term technology strategy alongside a C…

He has taken a broadcaster-owned sports property private, raised venture money against it, and sold three years and 300 hours of US coverage to ESPN.

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…

Colleagues call him the closer every procure-to-pay team needs: he has run global P2P, shared services, finance systems and controls, and knows what it takes to put ER…

She has raised money for higher education since 1998 and knows how philanthropic support gets built around engineering research, students and campus priorities.

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…

Christina is the person who carries Southwestern Ontario founders into national rooms, from the CIX Summit selection committee to the SAAS NORTH mainstage, where she h…

He has sat on every side of Canadian health technology: inside the Ontario government, in a global consulting practice spanning hospitals, public laboratories, communi…

She has carried country CMO responsibility for Japan at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and global marketing leadership at Cisco, covering digital, field and channel market…

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…

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 (NEXT Canada)

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 teams behind Knix, ChargeLab and Voiceflow.

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…

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…

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

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-…

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.

Cassie Wang runs finance at Lightship Security, the Ottawa-headquartered lab accredited to certify security products against Common Criteria and FIPS 140.