GREEN SPIRIT TECHNOLOGIES - Key Persons
Derek is a mechanical engineer with previous manufacturing experience in high-accuracy machine tool building at Kern-Microtechnik GmbH. He has developed proprietary in-house manufacturing tools and processes to machine machine guideways in the nanometer precision scale. Previously, Derek was a production engineering intern at Zaber Technologies where he developed custom production tools, designed electromechanical tools and worked with a lot of machine vision.
Job Titles:
- Serial Entrepreneur, Consultant to SMEs
Grayson began his business career in a humble little bike shop in Vancouver. This led to the creation of the first Canadian "mountain bike". And in turn, this bike shop grew into Canada's most prestigious bicycle manufacturing firms: Rocky Mountain Bicycles and Race Face. In 2000, after selling both companies, he spent many months in relative solitude - writing and reading. In 2010, he took a turn toward social business investing. This eventually led to JusTea, a social enterprise with manufacturing in Nandi Hills Kenya and Vancouver BC. Now he's active coaching Canadian and International business leaders with InsideOut Consulting. And he's still an active year-round cyclist.
Joey is an electrical designer about to complete his engineering physics degree. His wide range of interests has seen him take up a variety of positions including high-level physics research into superconductivity and teaching a LEGO Robotics class for children. Joey believes that sustainable technology solutions are the way of the future and is using his engineering skills to build that reality.
Job Titles:
- Finance Strategy Expert
- Partner at Ascent Strategy Consulting
Justin is partner at Ascent Strategy Consulting with CEO Rob Adamovsky. Over 10 years of experience in strategic management, corporate finance, private equity, and operations across various industries. At Best Buy Canada, Justin was a key player in the consolidation of the Future Shop and Best Buy brands, resulting in a capital spend of $130M and an average annual increase of $80M in operating profit. At Bold Properties, he led finance, accounting, and acquisition efforts, completing acquisitions of over $250M worth of development projects and executing over $235M worth of debt and equity financing. Justin is currently Principal at Edge Construction.
Kaveh is a fifth-year engineering physics student at UBC. He is passionate about mechatronic design and firmware development, and creating green technology. After joining the company in June 2020, Kaveh engineered most of the electrical hardware in the initial MVP prototype. He also developed the prototype's firmware and contributed to its integration with the web app.
Job Titles:
- Product Engineer
- Mechatronics Engineer
Koosha is an experienced Mechatronics Engineer, specialized in Automation and Robotics. He is passionate about biomedical and sustainable technologies. He has worked for Kodak and Bosch on projects such as automated driving for Jaguar and Daimler. He is currently working in a Surgical Robotics company and is involved in several other startup projects as well.
As an entrepreneur and business consultant, Rob co-founded Ascent Strategy Ltd. based in Vancouver BC where his focus is on advising and scaling start up companies. Over the past 15 years he has led and innovated at Kit and Ace, Best Buy, RBC, and TD. As an entrepreneur, he Co-Founded Chowza Pet Food with Green Spirit Co-Founder, Sy Haw Wong. Rob is passionate about making cities greener and healthier.
An MBA graduate from UBC's Sauder School of Business, specializing in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Rob is a mentor at the New Ventures BC Competititon and at Entrepreneurship@UBC.
A Certified Supply Chain Professional with a Bachelors Degree in Pacific and Asian Studies with over a decade of experience working in the Logistics and Supply Chain for major firms such as Electronic Arts, Fortinet Technology, Kit and Ace Design, Dufry Group, and RYU Apparel. As an entrepreneur, he Co-Founded Chowza Pet Food with Green Spirit Co-Founder, Rob Adamovsky.
Experienced in managing strategic global logistic operations, providing various technological support, solutions and programs that meet company, vendor and customer's requirements.