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Jan 31, 2018

Zac Young is a Co-Founder and COO of H2nanO, providing next generation water treatment solutions for hard-to-treat contaminants. He is a Loran Scholar, former team member of nanotechnology start-ups Nicoya Life sciences and Alchemy, and Nanotechnology Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo.

Globally and...


Jan 24, 2018

 

Rona Birenbaum, co-founder of Viviplan and the winner for the 2017 DMZ BMO FinTech Accelerator. She is also the founder of Caring for Clients, one of Canada’s first fee for service financial planning firms. She is also recognized as a wealth professional woman of influence in 2017. A financial columnist for the...


Jan 17, 2018

Beth Deshpande is the CEO of Soma Detect. She is a scientist turned entrepreneur who is providing dairy farmers with information that they need in order to produce the best milk.

 

She is from New Brunswick which have a great startup communities. It is very interesting how she end up becoming the CEO of one of the...


Jan 10, 2018

Wayne Ingram is the Country Managing Director for Slalom Consulting in Canada (www.slalom.com). He is also a member of Slalom’s 10 person Global Executive Board to drive an ambitious growth agenda for this 3600+ person team. He is initially tasked with building a Canadian team, starting with the Toronto...


Jan 3, 2018

This episode explores the different dimensions and definitions of commonly used industry terms - entrepreneur, innovator, inventor and creativity. Is there a difference? What is the difference? How do they fit and tie into together?  Can you be an innovator and not be an entrepreneur?  Are all entrepreneurs...