William Mougayar
Founder & CEO
William has more than 30 years of strategic, operational, and leadership experience in the technology industry, as an entrepreneur, business executive, professional speaker, management consultant and best-selling author. His career spanned 14 years at Hewlett-Packard in a mix of senior sales & marketing management roles, 10 years as an independent thought leader, and 2.5 years as global VP of Corporate Marketing at Cognizant.
He was also the best-selling author of Opening Digital Market (McGraw-Hill, 1997), co-author of The Business Internet and Intranets (Harvard Business School Press, 1997) and was also a columnist for Computerworld, LANTimes and Business 2.0. William is a graduate of the University of Washington (BSc), the University of Western Ontario (Marketing Management), and attended the University of British Columbia’s Graduate Commerce School. Follow me on Twitter. LinkedIn Profile. Google+ Profile.
Bart Gajderowicz
CTO
Bart has BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Ryerson University, and a Computer Programming and Analysis diploma from Seneca College. He has been the Senior Research Assistant at the Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Lab at Ryerson, a web developer focusing on Ruby on Rails, and a solutions developer at TD Bank working on large-scale data processing. His interests include the technical aspects of information/data/text processing, programming, logic, philosophy, and social engagement with technology. He updates his blog occasionally and can be found on Twitter. LinkedIn Profile
Valentin Tsatskin
Software Developer, University of Waterloo
Akif Hossain
Software Developer, University of Waterloo
Ming-Ho Yee
Software Developer, University of Waterloo
April Dunford
April Dunford is a software marketer that has held executive positions at both startups and large global companies. Her specialty is launching new products into market. April is VP Marketing at Huawei a $29B revenue communications provider where she is helping launch their new Enterprise business globally. Previously, April was VP Marketing at DataMirror where she re-launched the company in the Information Integration space and grew the business until their acquisition by IBM. April was VP Marketing at InfoBright where she launched the company into market. April was the Global Program Director of Information Integration at IBM where she launched IBM’s first products in that market. April was the Director of Marketing at Janna Systems and launched their CRM suite for Financial Services. Janna was acquired by Siebel Systems for over $1B in one of the largest transactions for a software company in Canadian history. April blogs about startup marketing at RocketWatcher. LinkedIn Profile.
Arnold Waldstein
Arnold is a market strategist and business advisor to early stage and growth companies, bridging real world tech marketing with a native understanding of the web, communities and marketplaces. He brings 25 years of operational experience and success in the private and public sectors building companies, products, brands and communities in gaming, movies, virtual worlds, gadgets and internet services in both B2B and B2C industries. Arnold lives and works out of New York.
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Amar Varma
Amar is the co-founder of Xtreme Labs and Managing and Founding Partner at Extreme Venture Partners. Amar has over 12 years of experience in the technology and investment arenas. Before joining EVP, Amar was a Director at VenGrowth Capital Partners where he focused on investments in the technology sector. Prior to that, Amar worked at a number of public and private technology companies in both Canada and the US including Jetstream Communications Inc., Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, ATi Technologies Inc. and Newbridge Networks Corp. Amar has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute sponsored by the NVCA. LinkedIn Profile
