Randall Howard Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, ON, CA

CA

Founder and General Partner in Verdexus, which is a transatlanti strategic advisory boutique. We are focused on leveraging our deep senior operating experience with our portfolio companies, focusing on enterprise software, infrastructure software, wireless and IT services.

Waterloo, ON, CA

Adrenaline Fund, part of Archangel Network of Funds, has a mission to accelerate critical, and under funded, seed and angel stage investments in Canada. Adrenaline uniquely brings a passive, rules-based model, coupled with leveraging a network of qualified lead investors, to build a highly diversified portfolio of 40 to 50 companies over a 5 year.

Cognition Fund is an early-stage Venture Capital partnership that invests in deep technology companies.

London, GB

As an RSA Fellow I am committed to inspiring better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change to champion new ideas, drive social change, deliver practical solutions and support the RSA mission in areas including Regenerative Futures and Design for Life.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Expertfile is a leading provider of "Expertise Marketing" for global organization and thought leaders. Organizations use the platform to publish, promote and measure their expert content to engage business prospects, media and conference organizers.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

iotum is a Verdexus portfolio company and I'm engaged to assist management build a leading provider of teleconferencing and group collaboration products for collaborators and creators, through their leading brands: - FreeConference.com, the original free conference-calling service, - Callbridge, a virtual meeting platform tailor-made for enterprise-level.

Cambridge, Ontario, CA

Canada's oldest property and casualty insurance company, founded in 1839, Gore Mutual has continued to also be among the most innovative, being the first in Canada to provide a completely paperless solution.Currently Chair, Investment Committee and member of the Board of Gore Mutual Foundation, I have served on Audit, Conduct Review & Governance.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Helping to grow Canada's angel investment ecosystem is the most direct way to build our future through mentorship and investment in our next generation of early stage startup businesses.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Several tech investor colleagues, with a vision to ensure independent Canadian owned publishers both survive. and thrive, bought Dundurn and recruited Scott Fraser as a transformation President and Publisher. We have been gratified. to inject new energy into one of Canada's largest independent publishers, even being on the short list for the coveted Giller.

I co-founded, with leading Canadian artist and educator, John Kissick, a prize to develop Canadian curatoral talent and leadership. Awarded annually to recognize a Canadian curator under 30, the MPfYCC aims to foster social innovation and curatorial excellence in Canada, and enhance Canadian visual arts on the world stage.

Elora, Ontario, CA

I am a founding Board member and currently Board Chair for CWCF which serves Centre Wellington as part of the 191 community foundations in Canada. CWCF has a mission to improve the social and cultural fabric of our community through positive change arising from connecting people, ideas and resources.

Investor and Board member in a next generation software platform, just coming out of stealth mode, to provide Collaboration Equity for Hybrid and Remote teams.

Kitchener, Ontario, CA

Verdexus portfolio company that is a global leader in improving K-12 educational outcomes by connecting Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment providing the real time insights to enable change for the better. In May 2022, Chalk was acquired by Powerschool.

Kitchener, Ontario, CA

GTAN is a vital financing ecosystem participant, being a nonprofit powered by a team of remarkable individuals who volunteer time and talent to ensure next generation innovation gets financed. I've been on the Board since the initiative was announced and Chair a team about about 10 talented people who monthly have the tough choices to select the great.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Investor and hands-on Board member in this portfolio company that delivers the largest Enterprise 2.0 community for computerized maintenance and enterprise asset management. Fiix was sold to Rockwell Automation in December 2020, forming the nucleus of a new software-focused division.

Guelph, Ontario, CA

As part of working to build ecosystem capability, have been on the Board of Innovation Guelph since the beginning.

Kitchener, Ontario, CA

Coreworx is an enterprise software vendor whose Project Information Management platform is global market leader relied on to deliverlarge CAPEX (>$500 million) projects.Coreworx, originally spun out of a Norwegian Public company (Software Innovation ASA) was acquired by Verdexus in May 2004 and raised over $10 million venture funding in 2005. It grew to.

Necho Systems Corp, a leader in software solutions for employee Expense Management Automation was acquired by Cybershift in October 2005.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Built MKS, which provides enterprise collaborative development solutions (encompassing both Software Configuration Management and Web Content Management), from scratch to US$45 million in revenue. Sales to Global 2000 companies like HSBC, Chrysler, Verizon Wireless, Siemens, and WalMart focused on methodology for optimizing IT development organizations..

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

Mark WIlliams was a pioneering developer of software systems including Coherent, Lets C and XYBasic. I wrote that operating system, ported it to many computer architectures (PDP/11, IBM PC, Commodore C900, Motorola 68000) and also much of the commands, utilities and key system libraries. A footnote from history is that the Linux team originally used.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

Managed software and systems, in conjunction with key researchers, for one of the top labs dedicated to research in computer networking and distributed computing.