TECH - Key Persons

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• Managing Partner and Co - Founder of AmorChem

Dr. Douville is Managing Partner and Co-founder of AmorChem, a Québec-based seed venture fund dedicated to financing and commercializing university-based life sciences technologies. Launched in 2011 with a capital of $41,25M, the AmorChem fund model uniquely combines access to financial resources with a virtual incubator structure that enables the rapid development and commercialization of life science technologies. The first fund successfully built a portfolio of 24 technologies, leveraged its initial capital to close to $76M with non-dilutive sources, transacted three pharma exits and spun out six biotech companies. The AmorChem II fund was launched in September of 2017 and now has $53.7M in capital under management with a mandate to invest in both the provinces of Québec and Ontario. Elizabeth brings to AmorChem a deep and long-standing experience in venture capital investing having been General Partner of GeneChem, a leading North American life sciences venture capital fund manager. She joined GeneChem in 1997, moving rapidly from Manager to Partner with the different funds under management. Elizabeth is very involved and active in the life sciences industry, providing guidance and leadership on the boards of several companies and organizations. In addition to her participation on the boards of portfolio companies Mperia Therapeutics, Corbin Therapeutics, SemaThera and Fairhaven Pharma, she has recently been appointed Chair of Genome Canada; a not-for-profit organization funded by the Canadian Federal Government to support applied genomics. She is also an active board member of BioCanRx, a Networks of Centers of Excellence for Bio-Therapeutics for Cancer Treatment and is a Member of the CFI, the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Elizabeth trained as a biochemist, obtaining her PhD from the University of Ottawa and a post-doctoral fellow from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, UK. She also has a business degree from CIREM/HEC.

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• CEO, Beta - O2

Amir is a 28-year veteran of R&D development management and processes. He has vast technical experience mainly in Medical architectures with proven strong management & leadership skills along with interpersonal and communication proficiency. He has active experience in customer relationship as part of the company management team, including pre-sale activities and technical integrations. He pushed and took part in few Research activities together with the academy & Hospitals (Including funding and regulatory affairs). He also brings his experience in multi-site collaboration and international management. Experience: Amir is the CEO of Beta-O2 starting at March/2019. Amir was working for Lumenis for 6.5 years (2012-2018). He started as the VP of Global R&D, leading a team of 80 engineers world-wide, he also serves as a member of the Management team who drove the company back to NASDAC in 2014 and to be sold to XIO in 2015. Later, he served as the COO (Heading the Engineering and Regulatory affairs teams - 140 employees all together). Then, he served as the VP of Business-development, heading the M&A activities as well as collaborations between companies and Lumenis. Amir was working for General-Electric for 9 years (2003-2012), serving as the R&D Manager, as well as few previous positions such as Program Management & Clinical/Application group management. The company develops Cardio-Vascular Ultrasound systems, competing Philips, Siemens & others. Amir worked for Charlotte's-Web-Networks for 4 years (1999-2003) managing the SW department. The company developed a Core-Router for the Internet, competing giants such as Cisco and Juniper. Amir worked for Elbit Systems for 4 years (1995-1999)in few different projects (Head Display units, Digital maps for Helicopters and Battle-Tanks etc.) leading few different levels of SW groups. Education: Amir has 2 first degrees from the Technion:

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• Co - Founder and CEO of Borrowell

Andrew Graham is co-founder and CEO of Borrowell, a financial technology company that helps consumers make great decisions about credit. Borrowell was the first company in Canada to offer credit scores for free and has grown to be one of the country's largest fintech companies, with over a million users. Borrowell has won numerous awards, including being named one of the top 100 fintech companies in the world by KPMG. Andrew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in economics from the University of Edinburgh. He was a 2018 Ontario finalist for EY's Entrepreneur of the Year award.

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• Corporate Partner in Osler 's Toronto Office
• Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

André is a corporate partner in Osler's Toronto Office. His practice focuses on M&A, startups and venture capital financing. André advises a broad range of foreign and Canadian clients operating in various industries, including software, digital media, online commerce, financial services, retail, food & beverage and renewable energy. André represents emerging and growth stage businesses, and strategic and financial investors in and acquirers of such businesses, and he is involved in numerous local and national innovation, incubator and business accelerator initiatives. André regularly advises foreign companies investing in or establishing Canadian ventures and helps structure, negotiate and implement a variety of complex commercial contracts involving the development, licensing and acquisition of intellectual property and technology. He has developed expertise in international joint venture transactions and has assisted clients in incorporating and investing in new ventures and related governance matters. André represents several domestic and international investment funds in connection with their Canadian activities. André's M&A practice has a particular industry focus on (i) media, technology, and e-commerce, (ii) alternative asset funds and wealth management, and (iii) retail and consumer products. André provides legal services to a broad range of entrepreneurs, media and technology start-ups and leading academics commercializing ground-breaking IP. He has been at the centre of some of the largest and most strategic M&A activity in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space and has acted for several leading academics in machine learning and AI transactions with global consumer internet companies and research institutes.

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• Partner, Emerging and High Growth Companies, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Chad practises corporate and securities law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate/commercial matters in the technology sector. He advises clients in connection with a variety of transactions including acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital, growth equity and private equity financings, joint ventures, strategic alliances and initial public offerings. As a founder and Co-Chair of Osler's Emerging and High Growth Companies Practice Group, he advises various emerging and high growth companies operating in the information technology, biotechnology, cleantech and industrial technology sectors, the venture capital funds and investors that finance them and the strategic acquirors who buy them. Chad has a wide range of industry-related experience in the information technology sector. He was seconded to the legal department of the Canadian subsidiary of a major computer hardware supplier. Further, before becoming a lawyer, he worked as both a software and hardware designer and also founded his own software design and consulting company. Chad leverages his industry-related experience and computer engineering education to provide tailored advice to technology sector companies in connection with their M&A opportunities, investors in connection with their technology sector investment opportunities and emerging technology companies in connection with their day-to-day activities. He is prominent figure in the Canadian technology ecosystem and plays a central role in Osler's efforts with Rotman's Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Next Canada (Next AI, Next 36 & Next Founders), Peerscale, the League of Innovators, C100 & CIX.

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• Founder, CEO, Sensibill

Corey is an entrepreneur and thought leader in the world of digital banking and business financial management, with extensive experience partnering with banks, POS providers, retailers, and other partners in the payments value chain. He is the founder and CEO of Sensibill, a receipt management and data services provider to financial institutions, where he oversees the management, strategic direction and investor relations for the company.

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• Co - Founder & CEO, Platterz

Sold Tradyo to Metroland Media in 2014. Graduated from the prestigious Next 36 program after winning the Outstanding Venture Award. Henig is a product development expert with over 15 years of experience.

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• Co - Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Radical Ventures
• Co - Founder, CEO and Managing Partner, Radical Venture

Jordan Jacobs is Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Radical Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in world-leading companies developing and applying deeply disruptive tech, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence. In May 2019 Radical launched a US $350 Million fund focused primarily on Series A investments, with LPs that include CPPIB, PSP Investments, Temasek, TD Bank Group, Wittington and Advance Media. Jordan previously co-founded Layer 6 AI and was co-CEO prior to its acquisition in January 2018 by TD Bank Group where he joined as Chief AI Officer (Business & Strategy). Jordan is also a founder of the Vector Institute, a concept he devised and initiated with Layer 6 co-founder Tomi Poutanen and Professors Geoffrey Hinton and Richard Zemel. Jordan is on the board of directors of CIFAR, and is Speak to you tomorrow.an Associate at the Rotman School's Creative Destruction Lab. Jordan previously co-founded Milq, a cultural content discovery platform that was an early adopter of using machine learning for personalization, and has worked with organizations like the NBA, NY Times and Barnes & Noble. Jordan also founded SpyBox Media, through which he developed and partnered with Elton John's Rocket Pictures to executive produce the TV series Spectacle. Hosted by Elvis Costello, the Emmy-nominated, NY Times Top 10 TV series features guests including Bono and The Edge of U2, Bruce Springsteen, Renée Fleming, Lou Reed, Diana Krall and Herbie Hancock. Jordan spent 15 years as a tech and media lawyer, and received his JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, where he was admitted at age 19.

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• Co - Founder & CEO of Ritual

Ray Reddy is currently the co-founder & CEO of Ritual - the order ahead app that taps networks of co-workers and colleagues for fast and easy pick up and pay at a wide variety of local restaurants and coffee shops.

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• Managing Director, Kensington Capital Partners Ltd

Rick Nathan leads Kensington's venture capital investment program as a Managing Director and member of the firm's Investment Committee. His career spans many years across the private equity and venture market as an industry leader, investor and professional advisor. Rick currently serves as an active board member of several companies within the Kensington venture portfolio, and as a member of the investor advisory committee of several of Canada's leading venture funds. Rick began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, where he practiced law for 12 years, including as head of the firm's Technology Business Group from 1995 to 1999. He then entered the investment industry as a Co-founding Partner of Brightspark Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Rick served as President and Chair of CVCA - Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association from 2005 to 2012 and was a founding Co-Chair of CIX- Canadian Innovation Exchange from 2008 to 2016. Rick joined Kensington in 2005. Rick is a graduate of Dartmouth College (Computer Science) and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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• Founder & CEO, IGan Partners

Sam has over 20 years of entrepreneurial, technology and venture capital experience. He founded iGan Partners in 2013 and iGan is now the largest healthcare VC investor in Canada. As Managing Director, Sam is involved in the evaluation, structuring, execution, and support of iGan's investments. Sam is a leader in the commercialization of innovative healthcare technologies in both the medical device and healthcare IT sectors. Currently, Sam is Chairman of eSight and MolecuLight and sits on the board of seven other MedTech companies and has helped oversee six exits. Prior to founding iGan Partners, Sam co-founded and exited several companies including Visualsonics, Tri-Link Technologies and Brighter Minds. Sam started his career as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) where he advised Fortune 500 companies on corporate strategy. Sam holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from McGill University and an MBA from The John Molson School of Business.

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• Chairman of the Investment Committee
• Founder
• Chairman, Founder, Kensington Capital Partners Limited

Tom Kennedy is the founder of Kensington Capital Partners and Chair of the Investment Committee. Tom serves on the Advisory Boards of several private equity funds and private companies and has been an active supporter of the Private Equity and Venture Capital business in Canada. His public service and philanthropic work has been a longstanding, and focused on education and healthcare. Tom's previous experience includes 10 years in operational and management positions with Consolidation Coal Co. and Alberta Energy Company. He has investment banking experience as a senior executive with Bunting Warburg, Lancaster and TD Securities. Tom holds a B.Sc.Eng. (Mining) from Queen's University and a D.B.A. from the University of Edinburgh and is a professional engineer.

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• Chairman
• Co - Founder
• Co - Founder, Waze

Uri Levine (http://urilevine.com/) is a passionate serial entrepreneur and disruptor. He co-founded Waze, the world's largest community based driving traffic and navigation app, with more than 250M drivers around the globe, which was acquired by Google on June 2013 for more than $1.1 billion. Since then, he pursues his dream to create great value for large audiences, through the series of startups he founded. His vision is specifically intended to disrupt inefficient markets and improve under-functioning services, with focus on solving "BIG problems" and saving consumers time and money, while empowering them and changing the world for the better. Levine is Co-Founder, Chairman or Board Member in several startups with the agenda of ‘doing good and doing well': FeeX, Moovit, HERE, Engie, FairFly, ZeeK, Roomer, WeTrip, Seetree, Refundit & Lifecare. He is always working on his next idea. Uri has been in the high-tech business for the last 30 years, half of them in the startup scene, and has seen everything ranging from failure, middle success and extreme success. He is also a world-class speaker on entrepreneurship, disruption, evolution vs. revolutions of markets, mobility and startups. Motivated to encourage the next generation of thinkers and innovators he also leads an academic workshop entitled "How to Build a Startup", aimed at undergraduate and graduate level business students. List of startups Levine is Co-Founder, Chairman or Board Member, with the agenda of ‘doing good and doing well':

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• SVP, Private Equity & Portfolio Manager, PenderFund Capital Management Ltd

Maria Pacella joined Pender in January 2017. She has been investing in emerging growth companies, with a focus on technology businesses since 2001. She spent 11 years with one of Canada's largest venture capital firms where she invested in multiple early-stage ventures and served on a variety of boards, mostly in the areas of enterprise software, e-commerce and med-tech. Prior to that she worked at a digital media firm assisting the company in operational activities and strategic initiatives. She also worked in financial and technology M & A for the Canadian subsidiary of an international investment firm. Maria's experience includes operational roles at early-stage companies, serving on boards, facilitating M & A's and leading financings. She has built an extensive technology network across North America, notably in Silicon Valley, and has been a member of C100. She is currently a director on the board of Clarius Mobile Health and BasicGov and an observer on the board of Tantalus Systems. She is also on the SFU Beedie School of Business Advisory Board. She holds a BBA from Simon Fraser University, is a CFA charterholder and an active member and a past President of CFA Society Vancouver. As an investor in the rapidly changing world of early stage technology, Maria invests in exceptional entrepreneurs and teams that excel at identifying business opportunities, develop world-class products and are dedicated to building great companies.

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• Engineer
• Co - Founder, President, Clearbanc
• Director for Vail Resorts

Tech titan Michele Romanow is an engineer and a serial entrepreneur who started five companies before her 33rd birthday. Michele is the co-founder of Clearbanc, which invested more than $150 million in 500 companies in 2018 with plans to invest $1 billion this year. She previously co-founded SnapSaves, which was acquired by American tech giant, Groupon in 2014. Michele was also the co-Founder of Buytopia.ca, which acquired ten competitors including Shop.ca and WagJag and was ranked #3 on the Profit Hot 50 list of fastest growing companies. She's ranked in WXN's "100 Most Powerful in Canada" and listed as the only Canadian on Forbes magazine's "Millennial on a Mission" list. Michele is a prolific angel investor and the winner of Angel Investor of the Year award. She co-founded the Canadian Entrepreneurship Initiative with Richard Branson to encourage entrepreneurship. Michele has created digital solutions for many of the world's leading brands, including P&G, Netflix, Starbucks, and Cirque du Soleil. She began her career as the Director of Strategy for Sears, where she led apparel growth - a $2.5 billion category at the time. In the media, Michele's work has been profiled in Forbes, Canadian Business, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Chatelaine. During her Civil Engineering undergrad at Queen's University, Michele founded The Tea Room, the first zero-consumer-waste coffee shop. At Queen's, she was given the Queen's Tricolour - the highest honor awarded by the university - and, after completing her Queen's MBA, she founded Evandale Caviar, a vertically integrated commercial fishery. Michele is a director for Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN), Freshii (TSX: FRII), League of Innovators, Queen's School of Business and Shad International - a transformational program that develops the entrepreneurial potential of exceptional Canadian youth. Michele is a Calgary native and currently splits her time between Toronto and San Francisco.