People
Meet 2000 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Toronto's tech scene.
Brad Newman
Legal Process & Innovation - @cooley. Previously Legal @startx, Ops @eshares, Co-founder @lawgives. Licensed attorney in California/Ontario (@stanford-university alum)
Robin Axon
General Partner - Mantella Venture Partners
Mike Schmidt
Music can change the world because it can change people. Former @the-next-36; Studied engineering @queen-s-university University and entrepreneurship @university-of-toronto-1
Hussein Fazal
Co-founded AdParlor. Grew to $100M run rate boot-strapped. Sold to AdKnowledge in 2011. Still CEO. Having Fun.
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.
April Dunford
Startup Marketing advisor/mentor/investor. 6-time startup marketing exec including @janna-systems, @datamirror. Also former marketing exec at @ibm, Siebel.
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.
Jesse Kaplan
Partner at Plazacorp Ventures
Rick Kats
Founder and CEO of @cliptone.me (Voice over photo / video communications) Product hacker, Marketer, Biz Dev, Business and marketing. (500s)
Mark Skapinker
Managing Partner at @brightspark
Chris Advansun
Digital marketer and entrepreneur skilled in persuasion, marketing strategy and storytelling.
Michael Cayley
Founder, Cdling. CEO, PlanetEye. >$50-million in startup financing. 5 yrs China. 20 yrs new ventures, US, Canada. MBA in Paris. Director, Startup Grind Toronto.
Karim Gillani
Director of Biz Dev @xoom. Junkie for tech in developing countries. Always asking how it works.
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.
Russell Samuels
Associate at Mantella Venture Partners.
Brice Scheschuk
Investor in @braveinvestment, @globalive, @windmobile, @keek, @pragmatic, @locationary, @varicent, @sambadays, @brockview, @surfeasy, @millstreet, @whir, @pitchpoint
Andrew Moffat [amoffat at Keshetinc.com]
Founder @formverse-1 • Studied at @university-of-regina
Michael Kosic
Tech Executive, Angel, and Entrepreneur
Sasha Baksht
I run an offshore software development boutique for startups and emerging web companies.
David Unsworth
Venture Capital Investor, Dad, foodie, cottager, full of tweets
Saif Altimimi
Founder @notewagon, @coursemodo • Studied at @university-of-guelph. Strong UX/UI background
Jeremy Wright
Social/digital media executive with startup/agency/brand experience. Last position added 20MM in revenue and led industry in digital marketing.
Katherine Hague
Co-Founder, @shoplocket
Mark D'Cunha
Engineer. Father. Archery Coach. Startup Advisor. Social media & mobile technology consultant. Building technologies that will rock your social future.