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He has written cheques into 50+ startups globally, mostly pre-seed and seed in AI/ML, and sits inside 550+ angel syndicates, most of them American, which is a rare lin…

She has stood up data science and engineering teams from scratch inside one of the country's largest sports organizations, hiring research scientists and data engineer…

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…

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…

He builds the platform layer that developer tools are made of, and he has managed engineers through the kind of growth Replit is going through.

He has sat on the platform side of the table at Google, Twitter and Microsoft, built the partnerships that Canadian media and tech companies depend on, and now evaluat…

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…

Steve is the person who gets frontier technology sold: he built the Americas commercial business for SoftBank Robotics, set global strategy for Facebook's $3B gaming b…

Happy to help with A trusted, independent advisor to growth-stage CEOs, helping emerging companies refine their positioning, strengthen their narrative, sharpen their strategy.

Daneal Charney

Founder · FIVEX (also referred to as 5X & Associates)

Toronto, Canada

She has watched more than 200 startup teams go from seed to exit, which means she can tell a founder what usually breaks first: the wrong first VP, cofounders that are…

Happy to help with Cofounder alignment and conflict

He knows how a Quebec deep tech company gets from a university lab to a first cheque, having built both the incubator and the pre-seed fund that do it, in AI and medte…

Michael Coombs

Chief Financial Officer · Certn

Belmont, United States

He has built and run the finance function at venture-backed companies from FP&A through Series B fundraising, and he did leveraged finance and restructuring deals on t…

Happy to help with I can help with financial and strategic advice for growing companies

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…

He knows how healthcare actually gets bought in the Gulf, having helped structure Saudi Arabia's first healthcare public-private partnership and run a healthcare incub…

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 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

He decides and oversees the funding programs U of T founders apply to, and he knows a decade's worth of young Canadian entrepreneurs by name from recruiting them into…

Marc has spent eighteen years in one demanding niche, building SaaS that government agencies trust with public bookings and PCI-compliant payments at seasonal peak vol…

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

Zoya Ipek

SVP, People Strategy and Development · IntouchCX

Waterloo, Canada

She knows what happens to a team when a company is bought: how to keep the talent, merge two people functions based on the product road map, and coach the leaders thro…

Happy to help with I can help as a mentor across the span of people and operations, how to approach scale, org design, leadership challenges,

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