Jesse Rasch

Entrepreneur, Investor, Venture Philanthropist.
http://www.hedgewood.com/archived_essays.html

Victor Belfor

B2B SaaS GTM Strategy (marketing, BD, sales). Former head of BD @ringcentral. Investor and head of BD @influitive Mentor @500startups Studied at Wharton http://about.me/vbelfor
http://vbelfor.weebly.com

Ryan Craver

Hudson's Bay/Lord & Taylor executive fascinated by the intersection of retail and technology. Snapchat: ryanmcraver

Dave Johnson

Co-founder/CTO @nitobi-software (acq'd by @adobe). Worked on @phonegap-1 and @robotreplay (acq'd by @foresee-results). PhD, investor, father, and lover of beer.

Jennifer Lum

Cofounder @adelphic, Investor, Mentor.

Dean McCall

Venture Advisor, CEO, tech catalyst, innovator, foodie, music aficionado, and passionate startup guy who thrives on meeting people and helping startups kick ass

Daniel Craig Stuart

Founder @gonabit • Worked at @livingsocial, @adgear • Investor @dash, @flashprops • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @wilfrid-laurier-university
http://www.danstuart.me

Albert Lai

Serial Entrepreneur. Recently: Big Viking Games/co-founder/ceo, Kontagent/co-founder (Analytics). Sold: @bubbleshare (Disney), MyDesktop (WebMediaBrands).
http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com

Tanveer Ali

Founded Opening Bell Investments ('04), Advisor for Avarice Investments (since '06), BA PoliSci '09 Waterloo, 10+ yrs VC/Angel exp

Austin Hill

Entrepreneur, VC, Angel Investor, Mentor, World Changer, WEF Tech Pioneer, TED Speaker

JS Cournoyer

Partner at @real-ventures Entrepreneur angel investor husband father of 5 hockey player http://jscournoyer.com
http://www.jscournoyer.com

Nabil Kassam

Managing Director at Zynik Capital Corp. • Founder & Executive Chairman at @noble-iron & Texada Software Inc. • Studied at @harvard-university University & @stanford-graduate-school-of-business

Andrew D'Souza

President @bionym • Former COO @top-hat • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @top-prospect • Investor @tulip-retail • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

Marat Mukhamedyarov

Angel Investor @YAI, @GTAN; Managing partner @MogulCapital

Sundeep Madra

Investor in @chango, @fixmo, @kontagent, @rypple, @bumptop, @xtreme-labs, Local Response, @guardly, @influitive, @locationary, @top-prospect, Uken Games and @well-ca

Jonathan Ehrlich

Partner at Foundation Capital.

Jaiveer Singh

Director, @mint-pharmaceuticals-inc General Partner, @medina-singh-partners, LLC Studied @carnegie-mellon-university, Columbia MBA

Daniel Debow

co-founder @rypple, sold to Salesforce. co-founder Workbrain, sold to Infor. co-founder Creative Destruction Lab. SVP @salesforce.

Andy Yang

COO @500px | Formerly at @extremestartups @relay-ventures @chegg. @netflix. @thomas-weisel-partners. @goldman-sachs. @accenture. | @ChicagoBooth @university-of-california-berkeley.

Mark Organ

Marketing technology entrepreneur, CEO of @influitive, co-founder of @eloqua.

Farhan Thawar

Investor in @xtreme-labs.

Jesse Rodgers

Director, Creative Destruction Lab @ Rotman; Founded, @tribehr; big fan of the Waterloo/Toronto community; built VeloCity; like early stage startups + Canada.
http://whoyoucallingajesse.com

Jennifer E. Byrne

President, Quesnay. Former VP @american-express mcommerce; Exec @verizon led innovation, BD, & applications ecosystem. Investor: @vouchr, @lettuce, & CareatHand

Joseph Fung

CEO of @tribehr (Sold to NetSuite 2013), CEO of @lewis-media (Sold 2009), CEO @onmyblock-ca, and Co-Founder @simple-machines-forum. UWaterloo Computer Engineer.
http://www.josephfung.ca

Nick Koudas

Professor at @university-of-toronto; co-founder os Sysomos, worked at AT&T Research, Columbia University

Chris Maeda

CEO Brick Street Software. EVP/CTO KANA Software. co-Founder / CTO Rubric Software (sold to KANA). @carnegie-mellon-university CS PhD. MIT VI-3. Former lispm hacker.
http://blog.cmaeda.com/

Jimmy Dinh

Strategy/CorpDev, BD & Product Leader. Mobile Payments & Digital Commerce Exec. Capital Markets Innovation at CIBC World Markets. Ex- Head of Emerging Payments and Digital Commerce at Loblaws. Ex-MasterCard, ex-AOL, ex-eBay, ex-Nokia. Active Angel.

Jonas Brandon

Cofounder of StartupNorth (@startupnorth), Captual (acq by @desire2learn). Seed investor in GoInstant (acq by @salesforce) and more!
http://www.startupnorth.ca

Nicholas Eisenberger

Founder, @pure-energy-partners, a cleantech special forces outfit. 20yr+ cleantech investor & entrepreneur. Fmr advisor to Immelt on ecomagination. Harvard Law

Keir Reynolds

Exec. Chairman and Co-founder of LX Ventures. We build businesses by launching, integrating and acquiring early-stage, high-growth technology companies.

Mark Bridges

Partner at @greenowl-mobile. Investor in mobile startups. Extensive corporate M&A and international experience.

Nilesh Bansal

Founder @sysomos • Studied at @University of Toronto

Mike McDerment

Founder & CEO Freshbooks. Founder mesh conference.

Alkarim Nasser

Managing Partner at BNOTIONS. Investor, Product Design, Business Development, Digital Strategy. Focused on the emerging tech space.

Afif S. Khan

Entrepreneur. Partner/owner in several businesses, looking to invest in start ups.

John-Paul Gallo

Entrepreneur, Investor

Darrell MacMullin

@DMACMullin Modern Gentleman, Investor, Troublemaker, & thrives on continuous innovation. http://www.darrellmacmullin.com
http://darrellmacmullin.tumblr.com

Motek Sherman

A lawyer by training + an early adopter by nature = a savvy, engaged angel

David Arnsdorf

Co-Founder, @neverblue-media., bootstrapped to mid 8 figures rev in 4 years then exited. Angel Investor.

Craig Morantz

Founder @aware-marketing-group • Worked at @shifthub, @polyconcept-north-america • Investor @shifthub, @mavensay
http://www.gotomarketguy.com

Peter Carrescia

Advisor to early stage technology companies. Experienced VC with prior operational roles at IBM and @microsoft

Richard Reiner

Entrepreneur, Executive, & Investor focused on Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, IT Security, and IT Infrastructure.

Peter Evans

CEO, Co-Founder at ExpertFile

Craig Follett

CEO & Co-founder @uniiverse, the social marketplace for events. Top ranked analyst at @bcg and @credit-suisse's tech practices. Rock climbing enthusiast.

Brice Scheschuk

Investor in @braveinvestment, @globalive, @windmobile, @keek, @pragmatic, @locationary, @varicent, @sambadays, @brockview, @surfeasy, @millstreet, @whir, @pitchpoint

Mike Silagadze

CEO of @top-hat.

Randall Howard

General Partner at VERDEXUS, a Venture 2.0 boutique providing hands on investments by serial executives.
http://RandallJHoward.com

Jeff Robinson

Investor - Advisor - Mentor - Author - http://about.me/jeffreyrobinson
http://contrariansmind.wordpress.com/

Cory York

Founded two startups: GCI Network out of Mumbai that operates in the giftcard space, and PowerStores a SAAS do it yourself digital commerce platform for SMB's.

Ameet Shah

Co-Founder of Five Mobile (acquired by Zynga), Director of Zynga Toronto. Startup mentor, advisor and investor.

George Babu

Tech Startup Exec, Advisor, Investor

Tony Cohen

Glenn Graff

K2 & Associates Investment Management Inc. & Angel Investor

Derek Szeto

Founder @redflagdeals • Worked at @yellow-pages-group • Investor @year-one-labs, @sky-motion-research • Studied at @queen-s-university

Jon Lax

It's a daily operation

Dominic Bortolussi

Founder: @the-working-group @postageapp-2, Investor: @Greengage Mobile @omx @OrganicsLive @BigTerminal @rayku @rocketr @shoplocket

Andrew Wright

Worked at @apple, @microsoft • Investor @leanplum, @pinnatta • Studied at @queen-s-university

Joel Auge

CEO of @fan-si, CEO of @hitgrab Inc., CEO of @social-stork Inc. High-school drop-out. Toured in a rock band for 4 years... straight.
http://joelauge.tumblr.com

Ryan Milnes

Founder @close-com, @cosmic-development • Investor @skycatch, @rumble-com @layer @geeklist

Jason Zan

Senior Director, Rogers Ventures. Board Member, @scribble-technologies & @gridcentric

Daren Trousdell

I recently left my life in advertising to get closer to the consumer by building cool stuff. Now I’m the CEO of @oneup-games-1.

Rod Fitzsimmons Frey

BA MA BSc(CompEng); Dir of Engineering Jotter (sold to @saflink); Dir of Engineering (@saflink); CTO @careerid (taken private); CEO @attassa (sold to @hightail-2)

John Huang

Sean Wise

15 years as a VC, 30 as a founder, 5 on Dragons' Den.

Benjamin Sigler

Director of Business development at @goldseal-management

Jonathan Straus

Rubsun Ho

Partner, Cognition LLP

Brian Sharwood

Formerly, President, @homestars SeaBoard Group, Think Forward, Babson Entrepreneurship Alum

Laurent Feral-Pierssens

Founder and CEO of @silentale. Computer Science and Mathematics at @mcgill-university

Chris Carder

Founder @kinetic-cafe

Gerard Buckley

Founder @jaguar-capital-inc • Worked at @scotiabank, @scotia-capital • Investor @shiny-ads, @medrunner-health-solutions-inc • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @university-of-western-ontario
http://www.itbusiness.ca/author/gbuckley

Ben Zlotnick

Founder & CEO of INcubes Accelerator in Toronto, I help build proper infrastructures that create sustainable businesses. Startup Investor.
http://benzlotnick

Hussein Fazal

Co-founded AdParlor. Grew to $100M run rate boot-strapped. Sold to AdKnowledge in 2011. Still CEO. Having Fun.

David Sax

Journalist and author (Businessweek, NYTimes, Saveur), investor in early stage startups with Julmi, a family investment company based in Toronto.

Christian Lassonde

Founder @millions-of-us, @virtual-greats • Worked at @the-next-36, @lucasarts • Investor @kira-talent-1 • Studied at @university-of-western-ontario, @university-of-san-francisco

Sean Shapcott

After selling my company in 2011 I took some time off and spent it with family. Now I'm recharged with a new big idea and going all in again.

Satish Kanwar

Director at @shopify. Previously Co-Founder at @jet-cooper (Acquired in August 2013).
http://www.sati.sh

JP Rosevear

VP Engineering Polar Mobile. Past Waterloo, Ximian #13, Novell/SuSE, Mozilla. Experienced engineering leader. Grows teams, scales process and ships software.

David Kassie

Group Chairman CanaccordGenuity; Founder Genuity Capital Markets; Ex Chairman/CEO CIBC World Markets, Vice Chair CIBC. Board of Ivey School of Business.

Meir Sheldon Dick

BizDev at Sciencescape, Partner at RRG. Developed validation platform for investors, and BizDev mentor for early stage startups

Nav Sangha

Founder Turnstyle. Accomplished entrepreneur in hospitality and entertainment industry. Studied at University of Toronto.

Chancellor Crawford

CEO QoC Health Inc. Life long entrepreneur. Unique ability to combine the unlimited potential of technology with business insight, passion and creativity.

Michael Kosic

Tech Executive, Angel, and Entrepreneur

Muneeb Mushtaq

Co-Founder & CEO @askfortask • Graduate @university-of-toronto. Serial Entrepreneur. Love innovation and collaborative consumption.

Deepak Chopra

Founder/CEO Clearbridge Mobile. Ex Senior Equity Technology Research Analyst at Canaccord Genuity, Canada's largest independent brokerage.

Ken Nickerson

Entrepreneur, Angel, Inventor, BODs, @flixel-photos-inc, dTaz, Atomic Reach, ex-Kobo, ex-OpenCola, ex-Microsoft, ex-Rogers, ex-Banks - http://ibinary.com/libas
http://ibinary.com/libas

Jim Osler

Principal and co-Founder, @origin-merchant-partners, former Head of M&A Genuity Capital Markets, ex MD CIBC

Leon Kuperman

Founder @modnique, HostedPCI • Worked at @ibm, @bidz-com • Investor @hostedpci • Studied at @york-university-1

Eric Monteiro

Successful executive and consultant, have invested in angel rounds and advised startups

Mike Betts

President at Castlegar Management LTD.

Lee Berger

VP, Investments at Langara Group. Entrepreneur and advisor.

David Albert

Toronto GM @handy-1. Previously: Co-Founder @wagjag-com - Canada's largest daily deal site, Co-Founder @homehub , GM at Postmedia

Mark Vange

Chris Pavlovski

CEO & Founder of @rumble-com / Founder of @cosmic-development / Worked at @microsoft

Kosmayer Investments Inc.

Founded first dot com company in 1998. Have created a successful company with 55 employees and $80 million in total revenue. Sold company and now onto new ventures as well as angel and seed investing in interesting ideas.

Alan Bekerman

Founder/CEO of iQ Food Co. moonlighting as a tech investor.

Rob Laidlaw

President at @verticalscope Inc.

Raja Bhatia

André LeBlanc

Founder and CTO of Sky Motion Research. Founding Member Discreet Logic (IPO, subsequently acquired by Autodesk). Director of Technology at Ubisoft.

Andrew Moffat [amoffat at Keshetinc.com]

Founder @formverse-1 • Studied at @university-of-regina

Ron Dembo

Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint. Founder and former CEO of Algorithmics Incorporated. Former Yale Professor in CS and Management. Fields Institute Fellow.

Qasim Virjee

Founding Director of @getfilmi and Principal at @design-guru. Constantly exploring the world's music through editing globetronica.org and indianelectronica.com
http://designguru.org/blog

Adam Gravitis

CEO of Well-Ordered Labs • ex-CTO of @500px • Co-Founded @algo-anywhere • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @university-of-sydney, @university-of-buckingham

Anton Polski

3x Entrepreneur. Obsessed with mobile products. Founded @dateonfire, @pokerspace-com • @semacode-com Studied at @university-of-waterloo

Paul Crowe

Beyond investing time, energy, and money into making my own dreams come true, I believe in helping others reach theirs.

Kevin Bartus

Founded Blue Spark (sold to OnX), now Ideon Media (PROFIT HOT50 twice). Ex VP Rogers Digital Media, ex BCG, Harvard and MIT degrees. Maple Leaf Angels board.

elliot noss

Elliot Noss is CEO of TUCOWS and the OpenSRS network.

Raif Barbaros

Head of eCommerce Tech at Loblaw - Canada's largest retailer. Prior, founder/CTO at various start-ups: 3 acquired & 2 hit 1MM+ users. eBay, OATV, Deloitte & UC-Berkeley alum.

Joey Lomanto

Designer + Developer.

Ken Paige

Chris Howard

Change Agent, Father, Husband spent my work life in the technology services biz - passion for business improvement building great teams

Bruce MacLellan

Paul Sullivan

Seasoned tech founder with multiple successful exits - Guest-Tek, Noteable!. Advisor to a number of startups in US and Canada.

Joshua Kauffman

Designer, Consultant, Angel Investor and Advisor to Multiple Ventures.

Raza Shaikh

Patner at NorthBay. Multiple start-ups. Worked at MIT (Broad Institute). Strong technology background. Angel investor.

Robert Hurst

Founder @audio-network • Worked at @pwc-1, @pearson • Studied at @insead-1, @university-of-bath

Itzik Lerner

Founder and CEO at ProgForce.com

Brad Ross

New venture consulting and angel investor

Fahd Ananta

co-founder, chime (acq. hubspot). worked at mckinsey & microsoft.

Garry Chan

Tech entrepreneur with successful track record of building companies from the ground-up; CMU M.Sc. (expected in Aug 2013); MBA from Rotman School.

Steven Dengler

Founder, @dracogen-strategic-investments. Co-Founder and CEO, @xe-com-inc Co-Founder, Director, and Investor, Wifarer. Director and Investor, @bet-smart-media.

John Culligan

Studied at @university-of-manitoba

Jordan Klein

Dynamic global business development and marketing executive with strong interpersonal and communication skills focused on building revenue

David Ma

technology lawyer

Terry Taouss

Managing Director @sitescout, the world's leading self-serve demand side platform. Formerly, a corporate lawyer advising entrepreneurs.

Shahzad Malik

Co-founded CognoVision Inc. (acquired by Intel). PhD in Computer Science from University of Toronto.

Chi Chen

Chi is a startup entrepreneur. He is currently the Director of Business Development at Tunezy

Elaine Huang Crawford

CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard

Christopher Oldcorn

Owner, Oldcorn Sports & Entertainment

Steve Gilpin

Director at @viafoura

Suresh Madan

Suresh is an entrepreneur and corporate executive in healthcare industry as well as a Fund Manager and Investor in small cap equities.

Ivan Lenev

Investor, Advisor & Entrepreneur

John Warrillow

http://builttosell.com/blog/

Jeff Marsden

Co-founder PriceMetrix Inc. Former President Accretive Advisor. Strategic manager. Fundraising experienced. Financial Services Expert. Ideas, pragmatism & focus

Ari Shomair

Entrepreneur & angel investor. Founder of @thepaw-com (sold in 2011). Internet Marketing professor for fun.

Richard Cooper

Founded Total Debt Freedom in 2003, still on as chairman, looking for investment opportunities in real estate, and start ups.

Leonard Simak

Anton van Rhyn

Looking to invest in IoT, b2b SaaS and other interesting businesses.

Lally Rementilla

Robert Walter-Joseph

Founder @stone-and-paper-press

Tristan Roffey

Rick Norland

P.Eng. + MBA > investment banking (60 deals: equity, IPOs, M&A) > serial entrepreneur in high tech and life sciences (6 x founder) > now franchising home care

Ayman Shalaby

at Computer Science Dept. of University of Waterloo

Ron Goldstein

Ivey MBA / CFA. Successfully marketed financial products and services to affluent consumers and institutional clients. Also developed strategic plans and financial / management reporting packages.

Amir Farmanesh

Founded 5 for-profit & 6 not-for-profit ventures, interested in innovative new ideas based on scientific advancements. I am a university faculty & a researcher.

Bahram Alipour

Founder @doradus-technologies • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

Paul Filsinger

Coder+Biz. PPC/Ad expert ($100M's).

Ralph Baddour

Co-founder of @polltogo. Engineer, former biomedical researcher.

Michael Serbinis

Founded and sold Kobo, founded and sold DocSpace, rebuilt Critical Path, worked at Zip2, sold to Altavista. Worked at Microsoft, built propulsion systems 4 NASA

Leonard Drimmer

Founder Property Vista • CEO at @Property Vista, CEO @transglobe-property-management
http://propertyvista.com/blog/

Ratko Vidakovic

Entrepreneur. Angel Investor. VP Product & Marketing @sitescout (acquired '13). Co-founder @toyotanation (acquired '06).

Jerin Anwar

Have started a microcredit foundation 3 years ago, recently started 2 orphanages and 3 schools in rural Bangladesh.

Jamil Velji

Marketing Expert, Growth Hacker and Full Stack Developer

Bruce Inwood

Worked at @hewlett-packard, @research-in-motion • Studied at @mcmaster-university, @university-of-guelph