Keynote Speaker
Dr. Oren Harari
Bestselling author of seven books, his latest Break from the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy describes how organizations can achieve sustained competitive advantage and create the strategic audacity, organizational lunacy and disciplined leadership vital to success in the chaotic competitiveness of today’s economy. Dr. Oren Harari is considered one of the “Top 40 Business and Management Minds in the World” by the Financial Times.
Speakers
Lisa K. Abe, Fasken Martineau LLP
Lisa K. Abe is a partner at Fasken Martineau with expertise in business transactions, including outsourcing, acquisition, sale, licensing, hosting, development, distribution and service agreements. She also advises on corporate structuring, policies, RFPs, intellectual property, nanotechnology, open source, confidentiality, disaster recovery, escrow, benchmarking, privacy, security, Internet, website and e-commerce issues.
Susan Allen, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Susan Allen is a partner in the Audit and Assurance Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, specializing in private and public technology companies. She spent two years in Silicon Valley, at our San Jose Office, where she worked with public, private and start-up companies in the software and networking sectors.
Eric Apps, Angoss Software Corporation
Eric Apps is the President and a Director of Angoss Software Corporation, a Toronto-based data mining and predictive analytics software solutions company. Prior to joining Angoss, Eric was a founding partner of Wildeboer Apps, a Toronto-based boutique law firm advising a broad range of Canadian issuer and underwriter clients in the information and communications technology sector.
Alan H. Bird, Curomax
Alan Bird is President & CEO of Curomax. Prior to founding Curomax, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of FinanciaLinx, where he created and launched a web-based automotive leasing business that from 1996 to 1999 grew to over $1 billion in sales while capturing over 50% of Canada’s non-captive automotive lease market share.
Adrian Davis, Whetstone Inc.
Adrian Davis is President & CEO of Whetstone Inc., a management consulting firm devoted to helping emerging and mid-sized business-to-business companies drive profitable revenue growth. Adrian is frequently called upon to advise senior management teams and sales forces on the subjects of corporate strategy, relationship management and sales excellence.
Bryan Disher, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Bryan Disher is the managing partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Ottawa office. In addition to his leadership roles, Bryan serves established public and growing private technology clients. He has assisted companies with more than 30 equity offerings in the United States and Canada, and advised them on acquisitions, and business planning and strategy.
Antonio G. Gomes, Goodwin Procter LLP
Antonio Gomes is a partner in Goodwin Procter's Business Law Department and a member of its Securities & Corporate Finance and Technology Companies practices. He represents start-up, private and public companies and private equity funds in a wide range of industries, including software, networking equipment, information services and healthcare. His practice has focused on advising public companies in securities compliance and corporate governance, strategic acquisitions and technology transfers and licensing.
Mike Harris, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Mike Harris is an Advisory Services partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and leads the Canadian Corporate Governance practice. He has more than 19 years' experience and specializes in providing management and boards with governance, risk and controls advisory services. Mike advises a wide range of clients from medium-sized owner-managed companies to large multinationals in a variety of industries.
Ted Hastings, Geosign
Ted Hastings, president of Geosign®, is responsible for managing the company’s expansion into new lines of business, acquiring new technologies and building a stronger competitive advantage. Prior to Geosign, his work at High Jump Software, involved the post-acquisition integration of Global Beverage Group (GBG) into High Jump's Delivery Division. As CEO of GBG, he increased the company’s value, resulting in its sale to 3M, a Fortune 100 Company.
Ben Kaak, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Ben Kaak is a partner in the Audit and Assurance Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the Technology industry leader. He has an extensive background as an investment banker and corporate officer, which brings him a unique perspective in advising technology companies on capital markets, governance and the practical realities of managing a growth company.
Mark Leonard, Constellation Software Inc. (CSI)
Mark Leonard founded CSI in 1995. Prior to CSI, he worked in the venture capital business for 11 years, including one of Canada’s largest venture capital management companies. He has also worked in the US and Canada as a corporate banker. Mark has served as a director of numerous public and private software and technology companies.
Nicolas Marcoux, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Nicolas Marcoux is a partner and member of PwC's Corporate Finance team in Montreal specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He has over 14 years of experience in corporate finance assisting middle-market companies in raising capital, acquisitions and divestitures. He has participated in over 60 mid-market transactions on a national and international level, including the sale of Steltor to Oracle and the sale of 3-SOFT Software to Softchoice.
Peter Matutat, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Peter Matutat is a partner in the Audit and Assurance Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and specializes in technology, where he advises clients ranging from early stage development companies to publicly traded multinational enterprises. Peter worked in PwC’s technology practice in San Jose, California from 1999 to 2003.
Lucas Skoczkowski, Redknee
Lucas Skoczkowski is the CEO of Redknee, a communications software company created in 1999 providing products for services delivery to wireless network operators around the world. Lucas is responsible for strategic planning and execution. He has driven the development of Redknee's product portfolio, sales and overall organizational performance.
Robert Scott, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Robert Scott is the leader of the Information Technology (IT) Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Canada and the global leader of PwC’s IT Effectiveness Network. He has over 20 years of experience advising clients in the fields of IT Planning, IT Sourcing, IT Project Management and IT Operations Effectiveness.
Mark Stirling
Mark Stirling is a serial entrepreneur and a dealmaker in the technology industry. He has been involved in over 50 M&A and financing deals. He sits on advisory boards and Boards of Directors for both public and private companies. Mark is a frequent public speaker, both domestically and abroad, on a wide range of technology business issues.
