Martin Cronin is an expert in the areas of counter-terrorism, conflict resolution, and government/corporate interface. He has extensive experience in conflict environments. Before moving to the private sector, Mr. Cronin was in British Government service with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His career includes over twenty years of experience in the field of international diplomacy, including postings in Yemen, Jordan, Sweden, Pakistan and Iraq.
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Private Company
Security, Technology
Sean Krakiwsky
Nanalysis
Sean is an experienced entrepreneur with three tech start-ups under his belt. He left high school to pursue a professional hockey career and made it to the LA Kings farm team. After leaving hockey Sean returned to Calgary and received a masters degree in engineering from the University of Calgary.
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Listed Company
Technology, Healthcare
Robert Eadie
iMining
Mr. Eadie has been the catalyst behind several start up companies both public and private. Through his participation of over 20 years in the Capital Markets, he has raised over $100 million because of his focus on open and transparent communication style and public relations expertise.
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Listed Company
Blockchain
Hubert Lau
TrustBix
As someone who loves to stay active and challenged, Hubert Lau has grown several successful technology companies with customers in North America, Asia and Europe. Hubert is often referred to as the “Technology Entrepreneur” and has worked with more than 1000 organizations to help them grow by leveraging technologies to maximize business opportunities.
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Technology, Blockchain, Agriculture
Trevor Peters
willow bioscience
Experienced executive having co-founded four start-up companies in the past 15 years. Instrumental in seven public and private start-up companies in the energy industry over the past 20 years. Raised over $1 billion in equity and debt financings at various stages of corporate development
Successful transactions totalling over $4 billion on sale. Extensive intellectual property and patent prosecution background in the energy technology sector.
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Biotech, Agriculture, Cannabis
Dave Dinesen
CubicFarm
Dave Dinesen is an expert in global operations management and corporate client acquisition. He leads growth at CubicFarms since inception, raising over $23MM in capital. He is the former CEO of BackCheck, where he advanced the company from a small business to an industry leader operating on three continents with over 500 employees.
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Technology, Agriculture
Russ McMeekin, Barry Po
mCloud
Russ McMeekin
Russ McMeekin is the Co-Founder and CEO of mCloud Technologies Corp., and was previously a founding partner of Energy Knowledge Inc. which was acquired by Yokogawa Electric Corp. Tokyo, a major industrial technology company.
McMeekin then served as Executive Chairman of Yokogawa Venture Group. He also served at Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) in various leadership roles, including President of Internet and Advanced Software worldwide as well as leading Honeywell’s Advanced Software Division.
Barry Po, Ph.D.
Barry has led global product teams operating in over 80 countries and has held leadership roles at some of the world’s most valuable brands. Prior to mCloud, he was head of product, marketing, and business development at NGRAIN, where he played a key role in taking the business to a successful exit. Barry graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2005.
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Technology, Energy
Maury Marks
Quorum
Throughout his career, Quorum President and CEO, Maury Marks, has established himself as a visionary in the automotive retail technology industry. As one of the original founders of Quorum Information Technologies, Maury has created a team that is committed to building and providing the best dealership systems in the industry.
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Technology, SaaS
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Patriot One
Martin Cronin
The mission of Patriot One is to deliver touchless, innovative threat detection and counter-terrorism solutions for safer communities. Our PATSCAN™ Multi-Sensor Covert Threat Detection Platform provides a network of advanced sensor technologies with powerful next generation AI/machine learning software. The network can be covertly deployed from far perimeter to interiors across multiple weapons-restricted facilities. The PATSCAN™ platform identifies and reports threats wherever required; car park, building approach, employee & public entryways and inside the facilities. Each solution in the platform identifies weapons and related threats or disturbances for immediate security response, as well as health and safety modules to screen for elevated body temperature and mask compliance.
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Private Company
Security, Technology
Nanalysis
Sean Krakiwsky
Nanalysis offers its clients miniaturized NMR devices that can test the structure of samples, the concentration of the sample constituents, and the presence of contaminants.
Nanalysis has a wide variety of clients of the top calibre in all sectors it serves and is actively working on a number of industry partnerships to integrate our chemical analysis into industrial and commercial processes. Publicly announced partnerships include projects in industrial production, law enforcement, and oil and gas refining.
Nanalysis is currently executing an M&A strategy with complimentary companies that will enhance our products and services.
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Technology, Healthcare
iMining
Robert Eadie
iMining is focused on provided investors with a clear path to investment in digital currency through it’s publicly listed shares. Our focus is on the purchase of S19 bitcoin mining machines that will produce revenue that we can apply towards quality blockchain backed payment solutions with a focus on Latin America. The company is in the right place with the management and the right opportunity to take advantage of the global shift to digital currency.iMining is focused on provided investors with a clear path to investment in digital currency through it’s publicly listed shares. Our focus is on the purchase of S19 bitcoin mining machines that will produce revenue that we can apply towards quality blockchain backed payment solutions with a focus on Latin America. The company is in the right place with the management and the right opportunity to take advantage of the global shift to digital currency.
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Listed Company
Blockchain
TrustBix
Hubert Lau
TrustBIX Inc.'s focus is to create a world where we trust more, waste less and reward sustainable behaviour.
The Company's proprietary platform, BIX (Business infoXchange System), is designed to create trust without compromising privacy through innovative use of data and technology. Extensive R&D has allowed TrustBIX to create a new blockchain-derived technology to complement its mature and proven traceability systems. By leveraging BIX and its unique use of incentive solutions, the Company can deliver independent validation of food provenance and sustainable production practices with the supply chain.
Viewtrak Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, provides a suite of hardware and software solutions to the livestock industry in Canada, United States, Mexico, and China.
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Technology, Blockchain, Agriculture
willow bioscience
Trevor Peters
Willow is a Canadian biotechnology company based in Vancouver, Canada, that produces high purity, plant-derived compounds that provide building blocks for the global pharmaceutical, health and wellness, and consumer packaged goods industries. Willow's current focus is in the production of cannabinoids for the treatment for pain, anxiety, obesity, brain disorders, among other significant indications. Willow's science team has a proven track record of developing manufacturing technologies for high purity compounds in pain and cancer treatments. Willow’s manufacturing process is known as synthetic biology, and engineers yeast cells to produce only the target molecule of interest via fermentation. This creates a consistent, scalable and sustainable product that allows for the discovery and development of new life changing drugs. Willow is a Canadian biotechnology company based in Vancouver, Canada, that produces high purity, plant-derived compounds that provide building blocks for the global pharmaceutical, health and wellness, and consumer packaged goods industries. Willow's current focus is in the production of cannabinoids for the treatment for pain, anxiety, obesity, brain disorders, among other significant indications. Willow's science team has a proven track record of developing manufacturing technologies for high purity compounds in pain and cancer treatments. Willow’s manufacturing process is known as synthetic biology, and engineers yeast cells to produce only the target molecule of interest via fermentation. This creates a consistent, scalable and sustainable product that allows for the discovery and development of new life changing drugs.
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Biotech, Agriculture, Cannabis
CubicFarm
Dave Dinesen
CubicFarm Systems Corp. (TSXV:CUB) is an ag-tech company providing automated controlled-environment systems that grow commercial quantities of fresh produce and nutritious livestock feed – all year round, virtually anywhere on earth, with minimal use of land, labour and water. CubicFarms enables its customers to grow locally and to provide their markets with safe, sustainable, secure and fresh ingredients that are consistent in colour, size, taste, nutrition and allows for a longer shelf life. Further support is provided to customers through the Company’s patent-pending germination technology and proprietary auto harvesting and processing methods. The Company has sold and installed systems in Canada and internationally, and is currently negotiating with a global pipeline of prospective customers.
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Technology, Agriculture
mCloud
Russ McMeekin, Barry Po
mCloud is creating a more efficient future with the use of AI and analytics, curbing energy waste, maximizing energy production, and getting the most out of critical energy infrastructure. Through mCloud's AI-powered AssetCare™ platform, mCloud offers complete asset management solutions in five distinct segments: commercial buildings, renewable energy, healthcare, heavy industry, and connected workers. IoT sensors bring data from connected assets into the cloud, where AI and analytics are applied to maximize their performance.
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Technology, Energy
Quorum
Maury Marks
Quorum is an information technology company focused on the automotive retail business with approximately 70% of annual revenues being SaaS-based recurring revenue. With innovation at its core, Quorum offers integrated, end-to-end business process solutions for automotive dealerships, covering all of their business-critical processes. Quorum has initiated a build, resell and acquire growth strategy. This strategy combines the continued development of new Quorum products, as well as acquiring strategic companies that provide innovative solutions that augment Quorum’s existing product suite and partnering with complimentary third-party providers to re-sell value-added solutions to Quorum’s existing customer base.