With a 25-year career in broadcasting, acting, and adult education, Jan is a dynamic speaker and facilitator and genuinely believes public speaking can be fun. Though the ride has had its twists and turns, Jan's career has always orbited around communication. She delights in creating custom, entertaining sessions that create aha moments and build teams. Always impressed when people embrace the power of speaking and level up their communications skills to expand personal and professional horizons - Jan is keen to connect with your team.

Michael is the Managing Director of the Georgian Angel Network, a not-for-profit organization whose members make angel investments in businesses seeking capital to commercialize and scale their transformation innovations. In his role, Michael reviews applications, recommends the best opportunities to present to members and coordinates the investment review and closing process. Michael is also the part-time Executive Director of the International Institute of Business Valuers, a not-for-profit organization that develops and delivers quality professional business valuation education globally. Michael is an accomplished senior executive, with over 40 years of successes leading transactions in a wide range of sectors, including professional education, finance, steel, IT staffing, multimedia, entertainment, utilities, nuclear energy, aerospace, trucking, logistics, and online education. His broad areas of expertise include corporate finance; business and equity valuation; strategic planning; forecasting; due diligence; M&A; restructuring; executive training; and e-learning.

He is also a founding shareholder of Hardwood Ski and Bike Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Dynasty Ventures Inc.

Topic: Angel investing ecosystem in Europe, and the European Super Angel Club.

Berthold Baurek-Karlic is the founder and managing director of Venionaire Capital, which specializes in M&A and venture capital. The Venionaire Group also includes the investment company MOTEC VENTURES (motec.vc) and the software provider DEALMATRIX (dealmatrix.com).

He is furthermore founder and secretary general of the Business Angel Institute (businessangelinstitute.org), board member of the European Super Angels Club (superangels.club), Homeppl (homeppl.com), Flovtec (flovtec.com), Unmanned Life (unmanned.life) and chairman of the supervisory board of Blockpit (blockpit.io). Furthermore, he is an expert partner of various accelerators and consultants of various venture funds, as well as external consultant in the EU programs Horizon2020 (today Horizon Europe) and Innovation Řadar.

As a passionate blogger (www.baurek-karlic.at), he writes regularly on various topics related to angel and venture investments, start-ups, and future technologies in general.

Disruption is causing businesses to face marketing and technology challenges more rapidly than ever before, but with change comes opportunity. Chris works with businesses to understand how to scale and build growth that has not yet been visioned using innovative digital marketing, funding, software and technology approaches. Chris and his team specialize in digital marketing strategy, innovation, funding mechanisms and business advisory services. Chris loves when all aspects of product design align with overall corporate goals to produce exceptional customer experiences.

Chris' philosophy is that start-ups are built on great ideas, team structure, product strategy, execution and agility, and that truly listening and understanding the needs of each customer and partner is crucial to success. These beliefs are core to the success of Adams Hamilton and former start-ups that include gShift, a SaaS Content Performance Cloud Platform, Hot Banana Software, a web content management system, and cgk Technologies, an Internet marketing and application development company. (Note: gShift was recently acquired by Mintent (2018) and Hot Banana and cgk were both acquired by publicly traded San Francisco based Lyris in 2006.) When Chris is not advising start-ups, he is a dedicated father, sailboat racer, cultural supporter, member of the rock band Sonic Coalition, Barrie Yacht Club Commodore and has been a Barrie Film Festival Board Member for the past 17 years. He is passionate about contributing to the community, by helping to build a sense of place within the City of Barrie.

Topic: Scaleup Math The hidden economics behind successful tech companies

Charles Plant is a serial entrepreneur and fractional CFO. He specializes in using data to help scaling tech companies discover new ways at looking at growth. He was co-founder and CEO for 15 years of Synamics, a telecommunications software firm. He has been co-founder of four, Board Chair at four and CFO of over a dozen emerging technology companies. He has worked on financing and M&A transactions totalling over $400 million and was on the management committee and CFO of three venture capital firms. At one point he realized that he factors drove growth in really didn't understand what technology companies so he spent six years doing research. This research has resulted in one book, 40 research papers and will soon result in his next book: Scaleup Math.

Topic: Interviews with Angel Investors Ontario

Mark Lawrence has been Managing Partner of North Crest Partners Inc., an Exempt Market Dealer, since 2003, and is also President of CML Capital Ventures Inc., serving in that role since 1997. He has been associated with AIO since 2012. He was for 10 years, until 2017, Director of, Chair of Governance, and Audit Committee member, of Stone Investment Group Limited, a mutual fund company wit assets assets under admin of about $600 million. Mark was also director of Impact Angel Alliance. Since 1992, Mr. Lawrence has been an active investor in private start-up companies in sectors ranging from financial services software and services, alternative energy, green tech, telecommunications, materials and internet software. He was previously a top ranked tech, biotech, telecom, media and utilities analyst with Prudential Bache, Midland Walwyn and Loewen, Ondaatje McCutcheon. He has been a Founder and Director of a number of TSX Venture listed companies, some through the Capital Pool Program. His previous TSX roles included being a Director of Soltoro Ltd., Axiotron Corp. (Tablet Computers), Software Growth Inc., and York Ridge LifeTech Inc. Mr. Lawrence holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Queens University, and a MBA from the Ivey School of Business.

Topic: Sector Education Series, Health Tech

Mary Argent-Katwala, PhD is Director, Strategic Partnerships and Development at Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization. Mary has over 20 years of experience in strategic planning and stakeholder relations and has held leadership roles in the commercial, non-profit and and government sectors. She is energized by novel approaches to health science and enjoys working with others to make change happen. Before moving to Canada in 2009, Mary worked as a consultant for pharma, biotech and medtech clients. Mary holds a PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London, UK, and an MA from Cambridge University, UK.

Topic: Panel dicussion on Al, Big Data, Cloud, A.I and Security

Laura has built her career in IT and security over 20 years, starting at one of Canada's largest financial institutions taking on increasingly senior and leadership roles before moving into consulting. She currently serves as the Chief Enablement Officer (CNO) & VP Security Consulting at cybersecurity firm White Tuque. Her experience covers a variety of domains, including information security governance and risk, security operations and engineering, Laura is passionate about bringing people

together to solve problems in today's increasingly complex technical landscape. Outside of work, she is actively engaged in mentoring professionals seeking to join the information Security Filed

while also volunteering on the advisory board of Sector, Canada's security conference. In addition, she chairs the Program Advisory Committee for Seneca College's School of Information Technology Administration & Security. Laura holds an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, along with the CISSP, GCED, and GWAPT designations.

Christopher is a lead strategist and architect for strategic and global accounts at CDW Canada and plays a key role in helping clients navigate the complex and ever-changing technology landscape.

He uses his deep understanding of the industry and extensive experience to help clients identify the best technology solutions for their business needs. Christopher is well-versed in the vendor community and has established relationships with many industry leaders, which allows him to provide clients with a wide range of options and insights.

In addition to his strategic consulting work, Christopher is a frequent speaker at industry events in Europe and North America.

This allows him to stay current on the latest trends and developments in the technology industry and to share his insights and knowledge with others.

Christopher is passionate about technology and is dedicated to helping clients navigate the complexities of strategic decision-making. His extensive background in IT and technology makes him a valuable resource for companies looking to stay ahead in the ever-changing technology landscape.

Contact Information

Phone:+1-705-677-8276

Email:chris@logiqis.com

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisrangell

Investor Meeting Company Presentations (January 19th 4:30 pm session)

Dikshant is the Founder & CEO of Torinit, a digital transformation company focused on enabling customer centric digitization of mid market enterprises across Canada. Torinit, backed by Round13 Capital, is one of the fastest growing digital transformation solutions firms in Canada with 150 employees globally distributed. Outside of Torinit, Dikshant continues to serve as board member at various fast growing startups and enterprises. Dikshant graduated from UofT in Strategic Management, and continues to serve on multiple entrepreneur forums within the UofT ecosystem.

Nicola Craig is a business strategist and entrepreneur from Canada. She started her career working as a management consultant at Bain & Company where she had experience in projects focused on strategy transformation, organizational design, operational model transformation, agile delivery, customer experience, revenue acceleration, cost cutting, international expansion and asset diligence. Her entrance into the entrepreneurial space was a two-month experiment building Palette, a ‘DryBar’ makeup, where she created and ran a storefront location for two months and generated $200k+ in run rate sales. After a successful summer with Palette, she pivoted to focus on a more impact driven and tech enabled path and co-founded CarbonGraph. CarbonGraph is SaaS for carbon footprinting to make it easier, quicker and more affordable for businesses to know the scope 1-3 emissions of the products they sell. At CarbonGraph Nicola has been in charge of sales, fundraising and product management. She graduated in the top 10% of her commerce program at Queen’s University and has her MBA from Kellogg.

Sam Anderson is an engineer and data scientist dedicated to achieving global carbon neutrality by 2050. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of CarbonGraph, a digital platform that companies use to calculate and share the carbon footprint of their products. Before founding CarbonGraph, he worked at Hatch as an engineering consultant helping the world’s largest mining companies reduce their carbon footprints and streamline their operations. He has designed smelting equipment, solar farms, and fuel switching systems for mines in over a dozen countries, culminating in Sam creating the full ‘net-zero by 2030’ plan for De Beers Group’s Gahcho Kué Diamond Mine in the Canadian Arctic. Sam holds a BASc in Mathematics and Engineering from Queen’s University and is a part-time graduate student in the Computer Science Department at UCLA. Outside work, he enjoys triathlon, history, music, math, and hiking in the mountains.