Founders and Board Members

John Ruffolo

Chair of the Board

Founder of OMERS Ventures, an organization that he ran for 8 years. OMERS Ventures is the venture capital arm of the OMERS pension fund. During his leadership, OMERS Ventures invested over $500 million of capital in over 40 disruptive technology companies across North America, including investments in Shopify, Hootsuite, Desire 2 Learn, Hopper, Wattpad, and League.

Dr. Tom Corr

Former President and CEO of Ontario Centers of Excellence for 10 years, previously held the joint positions of president and CEO of the Accelerator Center at the Waterloo Research and Technology Park, and Associate Vice President of Commercialization at the University of Waterloo.

Patrick Horgan

Entire professional career at IBM and at the time of his retirement in 2017 was COO of IBM Canada. During this period, he was responsible for the successful implementation of the AI and High-Performance Computer initiatives with the Government of Ontario.

Michael Nobrega

Former president and CEO of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), one of Canada’s largest pension funds with more than $100 billion in assets under management. Previously served as president and CEO of OMERS’ wholly owned subsidiary, Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc.

Executive Management

Dr. Tom Corr

CEO

Garry Chan

Chief Technology Officer

Founding Managing Partner at Procase Consulting, building the IT professional services company in Canada, United States and China. Garry is a tech entrepreneur and founder of companies in the fintech and SaaS sectors.

Mark Ellingson

Chief Financial Officer

Finance executive with over 10 years of experience leading start-ups in the software, health care, retail, and consumer packaged goods sectors.

CFO and co-founder of Mobi, a Toronto based educational toy company, that designs and sells high-quality, educational toys around the world. Former auditor at Deloitte Private with clients ranging from software to real estate with revenues over $1 billion. Mark graduated with a BSc from the University of Calgary, holds a CPA designation and is a Naturopathic Doctor.

Steve Cuthrell

VP Corporate Development and Acquisitions

Former Director - Mergers and Acquisitions - USWEB and responsible for the acquisition of the USWEB affiliates which allowed USWEB to go public resulting in a company with a run-rate of $1 billion in revenues and a $3 billion valuation.

Bob Albert

VP Strategic Partnerships

Former Director - Franchise Development - USWEB and assisted in growing USWEB from a start-up to a network of over 50 affiliates. Executive level sales, business development and franchise development at organizations such as USWEB, Sprint, MicroAge, and Computerland.

Advisors

Cameron Schuler

Chief Commercialization Officer & Vice President of Industry Innovation at the Vector Institute. Former Executive Director of Amii, where, for 8 years, he led one of the top-ranked Machine Learning and AI groups in the world. Career includes covered finance, business & product development, consumer products, and IT.

Ted Dzialowski

Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, business mentor, researcher and educator. Following a Corporate career in Labour Relations, Strategic Planning, and Mergers and Acquisitions, Ted’s business ownership and investments have covered firms in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, agriculture and food processing, IT, marketing services, and franchising sectors.

Product

Rahul Bhat

AI Product Manager

Rahul is Product Management professional with 6+ years of experience in building products with a focus on consumer experience and data-driven development. He has successfully conceptualized and scaled RPA and AI platforms from Banking and Insurance SME's to channel digital Innovation initiatives towards fruition.

Wajahat Chaudhry

DevOps Engineer & Solutions Architect

Wajahat is a Lead DevOps engineer and Senior Solutions Architect with 4x AWS certification including DevOps Pro certification. He is passionate to help clients leverage advanced technologies and set up business solutions that help elevate their platform to the next level. He has worked extensively on Cloud in creating and maintaining large scale infrastructures.

Marketing

Taylor Cuthrell

Director of Marketing

Former Partnership/Marketing Director for BAND (Division of NAVER Inc) a Mobile/Desktop, Group/Team based Communication Tool with 100M Downloads globally. Taylor managed numerous national organizations product implementation and ongoing marketing support. Taylor was instrumental in recruiting and landing partnerships such as Cal Ripken Baseball, a primary BAND client. He has years of experience with content strategy, lead generation, and client onboarding.

Nicholas Krahnke

Marketing Manager

Senior Partnership Marketer with over 5 years of experience in partnerships, marketing, & business development. He is well seasoned in content creation, account management, & client onboarding. Nick was recognized for his outstanding work ethic & commitment to his clients by winning Varsity Spirit’s partner of the year award in Feb. 2020.

Dorian Marquez

Marketing Manager

Former sales and marketing representative for Beam On Technology, Apex Leadership Co., and NAVER BAND Inc. Dorian has diversified experience in education technology marketing, manufacturing sales, partnership marketing, and event management. Dorian leverages his leadership and understanding of technology to find success in client facing roles that promote growth and education.

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