BLISS - Key Persons


Adam O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • President, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Bitcoin Well

Aditya Dutta

Job Titles:
  • Co - Owner of Monki Breakfast Club & Bistro in Calgary, Is a Seasoned Entrepreneur Who Has Led and.
Aditya Dutta, Co-Owner of Monki Breakfast Club & Bistro in Calgary, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has led and...

Alex MacGregor

Alex MacGregor has worked as a professional in the oil and gas industry for over 10 years including eight years in energy technology. He was formerly the Canadian sales and distribution manager for Ambyint and prior to that worked as a consultant for Aucerna in their Canadian, Australian, and Houston offices. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Geological Engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Bob Dhillon

Job Titles:
  • Founder, President & CEO of Mainstreet Equity Corp
Bob Dhillon is the Founder, President & CEO of Mainstreet Equity Corp, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mainstreet is...

Brad Warren

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder of Our Invisible Empire
Brad Warren is the CEO and Founder of Our Invisible Empire, a company dedicated to assisting entrepreneurs and small...

Cynthia Lockrey

Cynthia Lockrey is a change maker + communications expert with 25+ years of public relations experience. She shifts people, teams, organizations, and cultures to go from overwhelmed to clear and activated through her writing, consulting, speaking, training, and coaching. Cynthia is skilled at breaking down communications fundamentals into bite-size and easy-to-implement pieces. From her home on Vancouver Island, she works with clients across North America. Wanting to share the tools she uses as a consultant, Cynthia developed How to Communications. This online training and communications resources platform provides entrepreneurs with the tools they need to improve their communications skills. As a mom of an autistic child, she's also a strong advocate for the rights of kids with disabilities. She is passionate about helping people share their stories and be heard.

Céline Williams

Céline Williams is an international speaker, business strategist, and the founder of reVisionary, a boutique consulting firm providing executive coaching, leadership development, and culture services to human-focused businesses around the world. A serial entrepreneur who dabbled in corporate for a decade, Céline has almost 20 years' experience working with growing organizations and is the trusted advisor to investors, Fortune 500 companies, and executives in a variety of industries. She is sought after for her expertise in accelerating team performance, designing culture, managing transformation, and facilitating effective communication. In 2020 she won the award for Best Culture Design Specialist from Corporate Vision for her body of work.

Daniela Kelloway

Daniela Kelloway is a veteran PR and communications professional (http://clutchpr.com/), writer, and tech startup founder. She has spoken at conferences around the world, walked A-list celebrities down red carpets, and broken world records. Kelloway is a yogi, has three children and splits her time between Toronto and Prince Edward County. Her latest venture BooknBrunch, a tech platform for book clubs, is on a mission to reconnect the world in real life through books and food.

Don Ludlow

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President of Small Business, Partnerships & Strategy, RBC, Provides Strategic Oversight and Leads a Team That Is.
Don Ludlow, Vice-President of Small Business, Partnerships & Strategy, RBC, provides strategic oversight and leads a team that is...

Emily Ward

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Canada
Emily Ward is the co-founder of Canada's leading global influencer talent management agency Shine Talent Group. Emily transformed her...

Helen Kontozopoulos - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief
  • Co - Founder
Driving thought leadership in digital transformation, Helen Kontozopoulos is the Co-Founder and Chief Tech Evangelist of ODAIA Intelligence, an...

Jason Hardy - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder
Jason Hardy is the Co-Founder & CEO of the leading real estate e-commerce software, Ownly. Jason has spent the...

Mario Toneguzzi

Mario Toneguzzi, based in Calgary, has 37 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist and editor. He worked for 35 years at the Calgary Herald covering sports, crime, politics, health, city and breaking news, and business. For 12 years as a business writer, his main beats were commercial and residential real estate, retail, small business and general economic news. He now works on his own as a freelance writer and consultant in communications and media relations/training.

Nicole Matos

Nicole Matos is a Metis woman, wife, mother of three, President of Rivet Construction and Founder of Oonnie Food...

Philip Bliss

Philip Bliss is a business visionary, entrepreneur, digital marketing pioneer and a board-level executive. He provides strategy, marketing, product and technology leadership to companies and organizations. Philip has built and sold four companies and been a strategic advisor, marketing visionary, product marketer and board-level director to a number of start-ups and major names in the technology, real estate and travel sectors. He has been instrumental in the branding and marketing launch of many consumer software products.

Rivers Corbett

Rivers Corbett is a solution-focused & Agile Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Thought Leader with more than 20 years of success across food & beverage, hospitality, and e-commerce. His broad areas of expertise include leadership, team building, coaching & mentoring, business development, marketing, branding, sales, partnerships, global operations, global strategy, customer experience, startups, and growth. Rivers holds a leadership position as the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of ChefTorial (formerly The Chef Group), where he invested $2K in a small start-up bringing chefs into people's homes and grew to a seven-figure talent agency providing chefs for private and corporate events including cooking classes in Sobeys and other retailers. He also founded Relish, a former iconic Atlantic Canada burger chain known for its gourmet burgers and welcoming approach to customer service. He continues to help businesses succeed through Headspace for Entrepreneurs, a community of global entrepreneurs, and a podcast of the same name.

Robert Szmigiel

Robert Szmigiel was born and raised in Vancouver and grew up there until he was 18. He then moved to California and got his BA degree in Marketing and Advertising from San Jose State University. He currently lives and operates Vancouver's podcast while working internationally for companies in Canada, Costa Rica, Antigua, Malta, US, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Panama. He has won several international awards for his work on directing brands and marketing.

Ryan Mracek

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Keylo Inc. ( Canada - Wide ) and the Broker of Keylo.Ca in Edmonton, Had a Vision Years ago.
Ryan Mracek, founder of Keylo Inc. (Canada-wide) and the broker of Keylo.ca in Edmonton, had a vision years ago...

Shauna MacDonald

Job Titles:
  • Principal and Founder of Brookline Public Relations
Shauna MacDonald is Principal and Founder of Brookline Public Relations, one of Canada's leading boutique PR agencies. Starting her career in Boston and following in her father's entrepreneurial footsteps, Shauna launched Brookline in 2004 after serving as Vice President and Managing Director of Western Canada for an international public relations firm, as well as the Marketing Communications Practice Leader for its Canadian operations. Now in its 15th year, Brookline delivers creative ideas, solid results, and a fresh approach (as a non-billable agency!) to countless brands across Canada, defining new industry standards for excellence and delivering newsworthy and memorable moments.

Sylvie Bougie

Job Titles:
  • Member of Quebec Bar
Sylvie Bougie is member of Quebec Bar and practices business and commercial law since 2006. In 2009, she went into business and founded, a few years later, the firm Vigi legal services. Since then, the firm is growing and is dedicated to business law. The firm won a Jarret in the category of professional services during 2019's Edition of Le Gala de l'entreprise beauceronne. Sylvie has many involvements in the entrepreneurial community of Quebec. Among others, she contributes to "Centre de transfert d'entreprises", "Ressources Entreprises" and "Entrepreneuriat Laval". She's also member of the board of "J'Entreprends Québec", a non-profit organization whose mission is to generate the entrepreneurial spark and create a unifying entrepreneurial culture, and board member, secretary and responsible of programing of "Association Femmes Entrepreneures Québec". whose mission is to promote, develop and support women's entrepreneurship, as a lever to sustain economic development of Quebec City Area.