Canvass AI puts organizations in control of their data to achieve operational excellence. Designed to be readily accessible and quick to deploy, enterprises use the company’s Agentic AI solutions for high performance decision making, to future-proof operations, and drive net-zero targets. Backed by Yamaha Manufacturing and Alphabet’s Gradient Ventures and the Government of Canada, Canvass is recognized by awards and industry analysts as an AI innovator. The firm’s partner ecosystem includes SambaNova, Microsoft, Snowflake, and OpenAI Lab.

Gearlay is leading the charge in transforming blockchain and financial software technology. It specializes in financial software designed to handle high transaction volumes, financial ledger systems, and asset tokenization. Their solutions prioritize security and efficiency, with options to integrate into existing systems or operate as independent platforms, meeting the evolving needs of modern finance.

JTA Labs serves as JT Associates' digital garage to research, invest and develop new technology and products with widespread commercial potential. Often this involves working alone or with engineers, entrepreneurs and investors at an early stage as an advisor, investor, product innovator, team builder, marketer, and business developer.

JT Associates is a technology-focused consultancy providing business advisory services ranging from finance, M&A, and communications, to business, market and HR development and operations management. JTA’s assignments have covered Canada, U.S., Europe, UK, Latin America, South America, and Asia Pacific markets for such clients as Apple, Dupont Display, Luxell, ATI (now AMD), Alias Research (now Autodesk), Royal Bank of Canada, iSign Media, Axcelon Biopolymers, iseemedia (now Myriad Group), Qnext, PC Docs (now Open Text), BorderWare (now WatchGuard), Healthscreen (now QHR), Bering Media (now Audience Partners), Certicom (now BlackBerry), VMC Media, Megafone Media, Mill Street Brewery, Sprout Wellness Solutions, and PagerDuty.

PledgX is a seed-stage company developing a data and insights platform to manage construction performance risk. It is a member of the Acceleration Centre and Communitech in KW.

NXM is the leader in next generation embedded Autonomous Security software that enables devices to automatically defend themselves and recover from cyber attacks. Its mission is to enable manufacturers to create the world’s most secure and trustworthy products.

NXM develops software that enables devices to work together automatically to stop hackers and protect devices against evolving cyber threats, including those using future quantum computers, while safeguarding personal privacy and orchestrating data at the edge to empower AI systems. The Company is the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 North American Visionary Innovation Leadership Award in IoT Security. For more information visit nxmlabs.com.The Company is based in San Francisco and Toronto.

A consultant to the founders in their early years trying to sell the business, I was invited to join GuestLogix soon after it went public in 2007 with just $500,000 in prior year annual revenue. With nearly $10 million raised and a single airline customer the company needed to supercharge its marketing and communication efforts to establish thought leadership, attract new customers, and keep investors interested. I recruited a marketing, sales support and investor relations team and immediately set upon building marketing and communications processes and assets to distinguish the company. This included the push into ancillary onboard sales, launch of an annual user group conference, introduction of industry awards, release of ancillary industry analytics, and filing the company’s first provisional patents. Not long after, GuestLogix was recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in North America with $20 million in annual sales. The company relied on direct mail, events, email marketing and blogging to regularly engage with leaders in the passenger travel industry. This strategy underpinned the company’s efforts to sign more than a dozen leading airlines representing over half the world’s passenger trips and raise an additional $15 million in growth financing while I was with the company.

I assisted the formation of this TSX Capital Pool Company as a Director. The CPC led to the acquisition of a prospecting business which discovered one of the largest gold claims in Ontario.

I conceptualized the online service, developed a business plan and recruited a small high-calibre team of software engineers and doctors to launch Canada’s first social health website focused on chronic disease management. With the online community launched the business was eventually folded into another XDL-funded company, a corporate wellness management business which continues to operate successfully to this day.

I was invited to join the business to prepare it to go public. The firm had no finished product, no revenue and the founders had little public company operating experience. I assumed responsibility for product management, company branding and positioning, publicity and investor relations. I recruited a team, established processes, developed marketing assets and refined the company’s go-to-market prospects. This began with developing a new line of business using a USB key-based thin client computer for secure remote access, a world’s first, and applying for provisional patents. I also managed some strategic sales which led the firm to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington DC. The company went public on the TSX Venture exchange and raised $13 million during my tenure.

As a founding investor I joined MGI (mighty good innovation) as staffer number five and proceeded to work with the Chairman and the CEO to build a world-class software development, marketing and sales organization that eventually employed 400 people. The company went public on the TSX, raised more than $100 million in multiple rounds, and achieved a market cap of $1.6 billion as the ninth fastest growing Canadian tech company with $40 million in sales. While I was responsible for developing and articulating the company’s vision to business/trade media, customers and investors I also worked strategically to identify and help secure its largest acquisition, US-based Live Picture, a John Scully company, and investment by The Carlyle Group in Washington, DC. My work also led to a strategic investment by Intel and the launch of the world’s first online photo sharing service with Kodak and Intel. The Intel relationship also allowed me, as product manager, to launch the world's first software-based personal video recorder for television. MGI competed successfully with Microsoft and Adobe in OEM and retail channels as the world’s leading supplier of consumer digital imaging and video editing software until its sale to US-based Roxio.

The main founder and I met when I directed the Ontario Software Development Association; he was on my Board. Together we wrote the first prospectus which led to a $10 million public financing of Delrina. I then joined the company as staffer number twelve to manage corporate, product and investor communications. The company diversified from enterprise data management to communications and eventually consumer software through its acquisition of Amaze Inc. using direct, OEM and retail channels. I built a communications team and strategy to support multiple market segments as well the company’s listings on the TSX and NASDAQ. Delrina’s marketing almost entirely relied on non-paid methods managed by my team. My product and news campaigns achieved worldwide notoriety with coverage in Time, Wired, The Economist, CNN, NBC, CBC, BBC, LA Times, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, London Times, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. Delrina became the world’s leading supplier of electronic forms and PC-faxing software with sales of $135 million and 700 staff until its sale to US-based Symantec for $550 million. I continued as a senior consultant with Symantec leading product communications and provided executive suite corporate communications counsel.

The OSDA was the first non-profit group of its kind focused on the growth of the personal software industry in Canada. I recruited Board members representing some of the leading software and IT companies in Ontario and became the organization's executive director. In response to software entrepreneurs' needs I developed educational programs to address marketing, financing, management and legal matters. Initiatives were also undertaken by the organization to encourage government to provide funding to support innovative software product development in the province. This effort, in part, culminated in the Ontario Government announcing a $1 billion Technology Fund to meet high tech goals. OSDA merged with the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) upon my departure.

I joined MBVF while enrolled in architecture school and became a partner within three years where I led the design of Canada's computer museum. I also worked on various building and planning projects in Canada, United States, Columbia, Rawanda, Cameroon and Saudi Arabia. The firm was one of the first to use computer-aided design (CAD) in Canada which I managed and deployed with US suppliers.