Steven is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first company when he was twenty-two. He secured $3 million in funding for his latest venture, a mobile game and app company based in Beijing. One of its most successful games, Bird Hunting Mania!, is top-ranked in China’s App Store, and has over 12 million downloads.

Sam Horodezky has been building robust, user-friendly software for nearly 20 years. Sam returned recently to his native town Toronto, after 20 years in the US, to found his own consultancy, Strathearn Design. Previous to this he held senior Product Management positions at Teradata Marketing Applications and Qualcomm Inc. Sam holds a BSc from McGill in Experimental Psychology, an MS in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, and six patents from the USPTO.

Rudy is a partner in our Toronto office practicing in the areas of business and technology law.Rudy\’s business law practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, corporate commercial, joint ventures and financing transactions.Rudy\’s technology law practice focuses on corporate and commercial services and transactions for the development, exploitation, commercialization, financing, acquisition, transfer and licensing of technologies and related businesses in the information technology and e-commerce, manufacturing, cleantech, energy and life sciences industries. He also assists clients with early stage financing activities, developing collaboration, co-development, testing, engineering services, joint venture, intellectual property rights, manufacturing, procurement and supply, research, cloud computing, royalty and outsourcing agreements, IP audits and IP business strategies, research and experimental development tax credits, technology-based grantprograms, business plan development, outsourcing, cloud computing and e-commerce activities and tendering arrangements.Rudy is a member of our Business Law Group, Technology Law Group, Intellectual Property, and Energy Law Group. Rudy is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario. Rudy was a partner at a large national law firm before joining Fogler, Rubinoff LLP. Prior to his career in law, Rudy had been employed with several multinational corporations in the pharmaceutical, chemical and related industries in various capacities including supervising manufacturing, technical services, product and market development, commercial management and marketing and business development management.

Ronan is an experienced entrepreneur with a particular interest in the cannabis and hemp industries. He currently services Chief Strategy Officer for Trait Biosciences Inc., and is on the board of directors of Province Brands. Prior to his current roles, Ronan co-founded Canadian Cannabis Clinics and CanvasRx, the latter of which was acquired by Aurora Cannabis Inc. in 2016, where Ronan served as SVP, Business & Corporate Affairs until joining Trait. Ronan holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and is also principal of TDF Debt Advisory Law Professional Corporation.

After 3 years with IBM, Ron started the first of 5 engineering business ventures which he ran until retiring in 2008. Products manufactured were Emergency Lighting Systems, Residential and Industrial Pumps, Custom Material Handling Systems and the Electronic Cream Dispensing machines seen at all Tim Horton’s and McDonald’s restaurants. His holding company also owned numerous commercial, industrial and residential properties as well as a coffee processing plant for espresso coffee.
On retirement, Ron was the primary donor and volunteer project manager of a large water project in central Tanzania where he also distributed recycled soccer equipment to several rural villages and built a kitchen for volunteer mothers.

The primary focus of Roberta’s research is on the evolution of bacterial genes for the catabolism of chlorinated organic compounds. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms of genetic exchange that allow the construction of catabolic pathways, and the sharing of degradative capabilities by divergent species. She also has a keen interest in the bio-geography of bacteria, something that was previously difficult to study. With the advent of molecular tools we are better able to study the geographic distributions of bacterial strains and their genes, and to ask questions about the links between bacteria and the ecosystems they function in. This has become more important now that chlorinated organic compounds have been proven to be more”natural” than we previously thought, and her research has demonstrated the abundance of chlorinated organic degrading bacteria in pristine ecosystems.

Rob Moffat, BA, ICD.D, is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in building high growth technology companies. Rob is a veteran of the wireless and enterprise software industries and was instrumental in founding and growing Metex Systems, Objectools, UMS, and Wallace Wireless.  Wallace was acquired by Vocera Communications of San Jose, CA in December 2010.  At Q1 Capital, Rob is focused on maximizing shareholder value in the technology sector.

Rob is a graduate of the University of Toronto, as well as the Institute of Corporate Directors. He is a frequent and lively speaker on wireless technologies, business continuity and disaster recovery, and security technologies.

Education entrepreneur with more than 17 years experience including strategic planning, team building, curriculum development, business development, financial management, and the implementation of new learning technologies. Strong capacity for strategic and critical thinking proven through success in the execution of innovative initiatives, the development of new business relationships, and revenue generation. Flexible, client-focused, and driven to improve performance.
Richard holds a MEd in Educational Technology from the University of Calgary, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Adult Education from the University of British Columbia, and a BComm in Management Economics from the University of Guelph.

A finance professional with several years of experience in investment banking, private equity, and corporate finance with exposure to a broad set of industries. Has worked on executing numerous mid-market M&A, private equity, and mezzanine financing transactions and has established a consulting company, through which various corporate finance advisory engagements were completed.

Holds an MBA with a specialization in investment banking from the Rotman School of Management, an Honours BBA with a specialization in accounting and finance from the Schulich School of Business, and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA) designation.

Payal is a practicing family physician at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto . She is also an Innovation fellow at the Women’s College Institute for Virtual Care and Health Systems Solutions.  Hew work looks at how emerging technologies both improve the delivery of health care for ambulatory and complex patients. She has also worked with technology vendors and clinical partners to develop new models of virtual care by adapting successful approaches from the tech, design and start-up world. She is also a consultant for several health care start-ups on product design and usability.