Shopify

Product Lead

Senior Product Manager

Angel Investor

Active:
* Aquaeye by Vodasafe
* Evalyze
* EverBond Interface Technologies
* HDAX Therapeutics
* Healthy Hippo
* Intellijoint Surgical
* KaleMart24
* Kenota Health
* MesoMat
* Mirsee Robotics
* ORA Graphene Audio
* OrderEase
* Pontosense
* Quip Medical
* Steadiwear
* ToroMatcha
* Trampoline.ai
* Vena Medical
* VoxCell BioInnovation

Completed:
* Little & Lively - Dead

Golden Triangle Angel Network (GTAN)

Vice Chair Board of Directors

GTAN is the #1 Seed Stage Private Investor in Canada.

Board Member

Grobo Inc.

Founder and CEO

Entrepreneur, Product Manager, Advisor & Angel Investor with experience building strong products and companies.

Bjorn Dawson

Fork Your Company

Building a framework that transforms how teams implement change.

Fork Your Company addresses a critical problem in today's organizations: talented people sitting on great ideas. When employees can't implement improvements, engagement falters, quiet quitting emerges, and turnover follows.

Our framework empowers team members to test and implement solutions immediately when they spot problems. This proximity-based approach ensures:

• Solutions come from those closest to the work
• Changes can be tested quickly with minimal disruption
• Teams develop ownership over their work environment
• Leaders gain visibility into improvements without micromanaging

Currently seeking forward-thinking team leads for our Founding Teams Beta Program. We're selecting one new team each month to receive our framework, implementation support, and founding member benefits.

Learn more at forkyourcompany.com

Founder

The Ontario Startup Train

We fill first class train cars and ship startups, investors, and the startup curious from the Toronto area to Montreal’s Startupfest. We run a mini-conference, on a train, on the way to a conference. There is simply no better or economical way to get there and be there.

Joining us are some of Canada’s best-known investors and advisors. We supply drinks and food; you meet, connect and spend focused time with the Superheroes of the startup scene. You’ll arrive at the festival focused and fearless!

20Skaters Hockey Inc

As the Founder of Great Pickup Hockey at 20Skaters Hockey Inc, I successfully transformed the pickup hockey game organization process, streamlining operations and enhancing the experience for all participants. By supporting over 9,000 registered hockey players and facilitating the organization of more than 10,000 games, we have collected over $600K in sub fees, showcasing the impact of our platform in the hockey community.

Blue Mountain Resort

Ski Instructor (part-time)

DemoCampGuelph

Anyone in and around Guelph interested in software, the web and technology! Startup junkies, wage slaves, consultants, students, indie professionals, engineers, designers, money and marketing guys. If you want to see and talk about some interesting things, and get to know other people in the Guelph tech community, come on out! You don't have to demo to attend.

Host/Founder

ThreeFortyNine Coworking

2011: Opened the doors of the first co-working space in Guelph.

2020 (April): Slammed the doors closed.... 

2025 (Jan): Reborn as Guelph's first hybrid coworking space...?

Some of us have jobs in KW and Toronto, some of us are freelancers, some of us have our own startups. We all enjoy the freedom to work where we choose.

RWDI

In my role as a Strategic Innovation Manager at RWDI, I led the establishment and scaling of the venture studio, launching innovative ventures like Orbital Stack and Spot Climate. By founding the Center of Development Excellence (CoDE), I engaged over 100 staff in software development collaboration and set company-wide standards, driving a shift towards proactive market research.

Strategic Innovation Manager

Highline BETA

In my role as Senior Director at Highline BETA, I led corporate innovation initiatives by merging enterprise assets with startup agility and investor methodology. This approach resulted in a new model for startup investing, leading to increased ROI and strategic partnerships. I spearheaded cross-functional teams to drive innovation and foster a culture of entrepreneurship within the organization.

Senior Director

Band Of Coders

The Band of Coders is a crack team of programmers and system architects that creates business applications, web applications, and front-end interfaces. We work with companies that know exactly what they want and are looking for the raw programming talent to make their vision a reality quickly and efficiently.

Our team has been stripped to the bare essentials: exceptional coders. No marketing team. No sales guy. No CEO. No fluff to keep us from the goal of creating first-rate software products for our clients. Looking for cookie-cutter code assemblers or hyped-up marketing outfits? Look elsewhere.

Partner

Startupify.Me

Startupify.Me is not a project incubator.

We are a startup gateway.

We help the startup curious build their startup capacity without jumping off a cliff.

We work with organizations to develop a startup culture in their organization without changing their entire business.

Person #1

Your best people are swallowing their great ideas. That turns engagement into quiet quitting. That turns quiet quitting into resignation letters.

I created Fork Your Company to break this cycle. It's a framework that transforms disengaged teams into change makers by empowering them to test and implement solutions immediately, not just report problems.

When people can put their hands to their work environment, everything changes. Engagement rises. Innovation accelerates. Solutions come from those closest to the work.

Transform Your Disengaged Team into Change Makers
Now seeking team leads for our beta program. Join our Founding Teams waitlist and be the first to release your team's untapped potential.

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