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As Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), I will be collaborating with a team known for its exceptional focus on high-growth sectors critical to global security, including Cybersecurity, AI, Data Analytics, Autonomous Systems, and Sensor technologies.As enterprises harness the power of AI, the importance of robust security and governance cannot be overstated..

Toronto, Ontario, CA

With over 20 years of experience leading venture-backed companies across North America and Europe in the Enterprise Software (SaaS), Mobile and Fintech sectors, AFINEA provides a range of advisory services to venture-backed startups, including strategy formulation, leadership training, capital raising, maximizing board effectiveness, in addition to Interim.

Brno, Jihomoravský Kraj, CZ

Kontent.ai, the industry's first CMS with native AI capabilities, helps the world's leading organizations generate an unparalleled return on their content by enabling them to create, manage, distribute and optimize their content at scale with unprecedented speed, control and flexibility.Kontent.ai empowers companies across a diverse set of industries.

Toronto, ON, CA

The MaRS FinTech Advisory Board's mission is to promote the growth, commercialization, acquisition and/or funding of FinTech startups and platforms in Canada, by leveraging a selection of trusted industry executives for their expertise, mentorship, strategic insights and connections.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

At Nuula, we believed there was a better, simpler way to manage your small business — so we built it. Nuula was a mobile application that provided small business owners instant access to critical business metrics and innovative financial products anytime, anywhere. It provided small business owners with the tools, content, and capital they needed to be.

Riga, LV

At 4finance, we are leveraging deep technology and data science to build a mobile-first, customer focused business that delivers compelling financial products and services to those underserved by traditional financial institutions. Today, we are Europe’s largest online consumer lender, with over $500MM in revenue and 3,500 employees serving customers.

Riga, LV

Agreed to temporarily step off the board and take on role of Interim CEO of 4finance, with a view to clarifying strategy, accelerating the transformation of the business, and rapidly setting the company on a course for the next phase of growth.At 4finance, we are leveraging deep technology and data science to build a mobile-first, customer focused business.

The mission at Finstar Labs is to identify, invest in and help create the cutting edge user experiences, enabling technologies, and data science that will lay the foundation for the next generation of alternative financial services.

London, GB

Driving Wonga's international strategy, and overseeing our consumer lending business outside of the UK, including Spain, Poland, South Africa and Canada in addition to our eCommerce business BillPay based in Berlin.

London, GB

Wonga is new kind of financial partner. Our mission is to provide a modern and flexible alternative to slow, rigid and long-term sources of credit and we're committed to doing this responsibly. That means providing complete transparency to the lender, using sophisticated decision technology to ensure we lend to credit-worthy individuals and giving.

Toronto, ON, CA

Mentored Next 36 Outstanding Venture Award Winner BOXIT (http://BoxItNow.ca), and exciting HR Startup Vokko (http://GetVokko.com)The goal of The Next 36 is to increase Canadian prosperity by developing Canada’s next generation of high impact entrepreneurs. Started by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, The Next 36 provides a series of life changing.

Joined StatusNet as interim CEO in December 2010 to help identify strategic options for the firm. Launched a new world class enterprise Social Software offering in July 2011 that saw 10K communities sign-up in 10 weeks. Company was named one of the 10 Canadian Cloud companies to watch in May 2011 by IDC.StatusNet is now part of GNU Social.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

Joined Research in Motion for an agreed 6 month term after the acquisition of Viigo to help with integration and strategic initiatives.Within 90 days, we had completed the integration of Viigo, including the full cutover of all core operations, financials and business processes... and the various teams were safely docked into their new homes.I then spent.

Joined Viigo (formerly Virtual Reach) as CEO in August 2007 after having worked with the company for eight months in my capacity as EIR at Ventures West.Raised funding from both Ventures West, and RBC Venture Partners, and initiated a rapid expansion of people, partners and products.By 2010, when Vigo was acquired by RIM (makers of the BlackBerry) the.

CA

Post the completion of a successful integration between INEA and Cartesis, and following a wonderful two month break with my family, I joined a long time investor in INEA, Ventures West, as Entrepreneur in Residence. There I had a chance to work with a talented group of people whom I’d known and come to respect over the last 5 years. At Ventures West, I.

After the acquisition of INEA by Cartesis, joined the management team as SVP and Chief Product Officer with the mandate of leading a rapid and effective integration between the two companies. After successfully completing that task, and executing a careful succession plan, I exercised the option to leave the firm at the end of 6 months.

Founded INEA Corporation, the first Performance Management vendor to focus exclusively on the needs of the financial services industry. After the period of exclusivity with INEA’s founding customer RBC Financial Group expired in 2000, the company experienced rapid growth, becoming the cornerstone Performance Management system for some of the world’s.

Bsc., Computer Science

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