2009 Speakers

Paul Kedrosky
Senior Fellow, The Kauffman Foundation		 Sir Terry Matthews
Chairman, Mitel, Wesley Clover and March Networks		 Bill Buxton
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Arlene Dickinson
Chief Executive Officer, Venture Communications Ltd.		 Ungad Chadda
Senior Vice President, Toronto Stock Exchange		 Chris Wormald
Vice President Alliances, Research In Motion
Larry Marcus
Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital		 Michael Hyatt
CEO and Co-Founder, BlueCat Networks		 Peter Rokkos
Partner and General Counsel, Comcast Interactive Capital
Dave Furneaux
Founder & Managing Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners		 Charles Lax
Managing General Partner, GrandBanks Capital		 Mayor David Miller
Mayor, Toronto
Claudia Fan Munce
Managing Director and VP, IBM Venture Capital Group & IBM Corporate Strategy		 Jacques Bernier
Managing Partner, Teralys Capital Fund		 Rod Charko
CEO, Alberta Enterprise
Chris Carder
President
ThinData

Jacques Simoneau
Executive Vice President InvestmentBDC

 Rob Peterman
Senior Manager, Global Clean Technology,TSX & TSX Venture Exchange
Dr. Mario Thomas
Managing Director. Centre for Commercialization of Research, OCE		 Bernhardt Zeisig
Senior Partner, Cycle Capital Management		 John Marshall
President and CEO, Ontario Capital Growth Corporation
Duncan Stewart
Director, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Research, Deloitte Canada		 Tom Rand
Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical, Science Venture Group,
MaRS		 Nitin Kawale
President, Cisco Systems Canada Company
Amar Varma
Managing Partner, Extreme Venture Partners		 Lana Paton
Partner, Corporate Tax, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP		 Robert Montgomery
CEO, First Maximillian Associates & Achilles Media Ltd.
Rick Nathan
Managing Director, Kensington Capital Partners		 John Albright
Founder and Managing Partner, JLA Ventures and Blackberry Partners Fund		 Joe Catalfamo
Managing Director, Summerhill Venture Partners
Bryan Kerdman
Partner,
EdgeStone Capital Partners		 Mark McQueen
President and CEO, Wellington Financial LP		 Steve Hnatiuk
Founder and Partner, Yaletown Venture Partners
Joe Milstone
Co-Founder, Cognition LLP		 Rubsun Ho
Co-Founder, Cognition LLP		 Mark Usher
Partner, Wellington Financial LP
Austin Hill
Executive Instigator & CEO
Akoha		 John Ruffolo
Leader of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Deloitte		 Jordan Banks
Managing Partner, Thunder Road Capital
Mark Romoff
Corporate Director and former President and CEO, OCE		 Paul Lee
Managing General Partner, Vanedge Capital Partners Ltd.		 Andrew Wilkes
Founder, Management Initiatives Inc.
David Shore
Head of Technology Group, Research Capital		 Noel Hulsman
Small Business Editor,
Globe and Mail		 Suresh Madan
President
TiE Toronto
Joe Olivier
VP Commercial Financial Services for Knowledge Based Industries (KBI), Ontario, RBC		 Stephen A. Hurwitz
Partner
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP		 Benoit Hogue
Founder
Propulsion Ventures
Michelle Scarborough
Vice President Investment and Commercialization, OCRI

Shirley Speakman
Director of Investments
OCE

 Adam Jezewski
Corporate Finance Specialist, Emerald Technology Ventures
Suzanne Dingwall Williams
Founding Partner, Venture Law Associates LLP		 Roger Wilson
Director
BDC Venture Capital		 George Staikos
Founder and President       Torch Mobile

Leonard Brody
Co-Founder and CEO,
Now Public

Jeff Clavier
Founder and Managing Partner
SoftTech VC

 Chris Arsenault
Managing Partner,
iNovia Capital
 
Andrew Lipsher
Partner, Greycroft, LLC