Mike Edwards, Director, President & CEO

Mike is a life-long entrepreneur - for the past 20 years, he has started and invested in technology companies. Prior to taking the lead at LX Ventures, he headed up Growlab, a Vancouver-based technology accelerator, co-founded Initio Group andAreaConnect, a localized search directory, which sold to Marchex in 2006 and provided a significant return to its shareholders.

Over the last few years Mike has invested in more than 35 technology start-ups, including Punch'd, which sold to Google in July, 2011, Artsicle, Summify, which sold to Twitter in January, 2012, Hoseanna, LaunchRock and Rewardli, as well as Dave McClure's 500 Startups venture capital fund.

Keir Reynolds, Director & Executive Chairman

Keir has been involved in the public venture capital sector since 2005 and has raised more than $150 million of equity for companies. In April 2011, he founded Mammoth Market Advisory Corp., which specializes in advising public and private companies on their capital markets strategies to achieve industry-leading valuations.

Keirs areas of expertise include Mergers and Acquisitions, turnaround situations, and initial company startup.

Ray Walia, Director & COO

Ray is a successful entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in multiple businesses spanning across a variety of industries with multiple successful exits.
Ray co-founded and is the executive director of the non-profit Launch Academy, a high-energy reaction chamber where a technology start-up's evolution is ignited and accelerated through the fundamental theories of lean start-up, customer development, innovation, accounting, metrics, and accountability.

Kevin Rathbun, CFO

Kevin is currently a Director of Newstrike Capital and a Partner with Watershed Capital Partners. Prior to this, he was the Chief Financial Officers of Realm Energy International. He has been directly involved in numerous successful merger, acquisition, and divestiture transactions over the past 10 years.

He holds the designations of Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner, as well as a degree from Royal Roads University.

Derek Lew, Independent Director

Derek is a Partner with Initio Group, a Vancouver, BC-based early-stage angel investment firm, and a lawyer experienced in the areas of corporate, commercial, and real estate law.

Active in his community, he is a Director of the Frank and Joan Lew Charitable Trust and the FJL Housing Society, which focuses on matters related to social housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He is also an active member of the technology startup community in Vancouver.

Professionally, Derek is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia. Derek holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta.

Brady Fletcher, Independent Director

Brady started his investment-banking career with Canaccord Genuity then moving to Byron Capital Markets. In 2012, he launched Sea to Sky Equities, an independent advisory practice. Now a director with Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, he's responsible for the development of strategic relationships and advising the fund's portfolio on execution of different financing strategies.

Brady has developed a reputation for his ability to expertly understand clients' strategic objectives and seek the best possible outcomes in financing, advisory, and strategic services for clients. Brady holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Queen's University.

Alison Lawton, Advisor

Ms. Lawton is a Canadian business executive and social venture philanthropist who has championed high-level advocacy initiatives for global humanitarian issues. Lawton began her business career in private equity sales in the areas of syndicated software, film, television, real estate and tax shelter offerings, and was also one of three founding partners of ideaPARK, a leading technology business incubator that was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Lawton currently sits on the advisory council for Sir Richard Branson's foundation, Virgin Unite Canada and the BC Partners for Social Impact. She is former Co-Chair of an action network of the Clinton Global Initiative, focused on the DRC and former Chair of the "Unite for Children Unite against AIDS" campaign for UNICEF Canada, receiving their Champion for Children Award in 2006. She founded and manages Mindset Social Innovation Foundation, a non-profit that takes a collaborative and entrepreneurial approach to the possibilities of social innovation and brings awareness to some of the most challenging issues of our time.

Sheldon Inwentash, Advisor

As Founder, Chairman and CEO of Pinetree Capital, Sheldon Inwentash is responsible for creating the overall strategic vision and setting the direction for Pinetree. A true entrepreneur, Sheldon began his investing career while still working to attain his Chartered Accountant designation in 1981. In 1992, Pinetree was founded to be a venture investor in early stage, emerging technology companies. It was initially capitalized with approximately $4 million and grew investments to a value of over $800 million in 2007. Sheldon brings more than 25 years of experience in the investment industry and a deep understanding of progressive investment and financial management strategies. Sheldon obtained his B.Comm from the University of Toronto and is a Chartered Accountant. In 2012, Sheldon received an honorary degree, doctor of laws (LLD), from the University of Toronto for his valuable leadership as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and his inspirational commitment to making a difference in the lives of children and the future generations.

Reza M. Kazemipour, Advisor

Mr. Kazemipour has more than 20 years of experience in sales, strategy, investments and business leadership roles in the software industry. Mr. Kazemipour is currently CEO of Oris4, an enterprise cloud search service, and serves as a board advisor to many Silicon Valley, and Canadian start-ups, as well as a mentor to accelerators/incubators like GrowLab, UpWest Labs, and Media Camp (a Turner Broadcasting unit). Prior the advisory roles, Mr. Kazemipour was CRO at Ryma Technology (Acquired by OneDesk), CEO/Founder of AltosMedia, and an "EIR", Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Clearstone Venture Partners. He held executive management positions at Siderean (Acquired by OpenText), Fast Search & Transfer (Acquired by Microsoft), Cerebra (acquired by Webmethods), and Selectica.

Lance Tracey, Advisor

Mr. Tracey co-founded PEER 1 Hosting with Mark Teolis in 1999. Until its acquisition in January 2013 by Cogeco Cable for $526 million, he sat as the chairman of the Board of Directors and between 2005 and 2007 took over as the president and chief executive officer. Lance has long been a technology enthusiast, and has been involved in a variety of high-tech ventures throughout his career. A serial entrepreneur, Lance has co-founded Sutton Group Realty Services, Internet Direct, E-xact Transactions and Bryght.com. Today, he is an active early-stage investor who recently joined forces with Boris Mann to launch Full Stack, a new investment vehicle they're calling "napkin capital."

David Baxby, Advisor

After 10 years with Goldman Sachs in London and Sydney, Mr. Baxby joined Virgin Management in 2004 to establish the Sydney office as the CEO of the Asia Pacific region. Since then he has served as a Director of Virgin Mobile, Virgin Active, Virgin Money and Virgin Australia with responsibility for the Group's investments in these businesses. Mr. Baxby moved to Shanghai in 2006 to establish a number of startup businesses in the Asia Pacific region and in 2008 moved to Geneva to assume responsibilities for the Virgin Group's investments in Aviation. In 2008, he joined the Board of Virgin Atlantic, Virgin America and Air Asia X and became Chairman of Virgin Unite in Australia, the Virgin Group's charitable foundation. In 2011, he was named the Co-CEO of Virgin Group with responsibility for all of Virgin Group's global investments. In July 2012, he moved to Singapore to focus on opportunities in the Asia Pacific region.