I am a strategy professional with 8 years combined management consulting, strategy, and operations experience and a track record of solving executive-level problems Key Capabilities: strategic thinking and planning, business case development, financial and market analysis, program management, sales strategy and operations, organizational design. Interested in: digital experiences and innovation, technology, finance and investments.

Edward is a customer-centric strategist passionate about addressing customer pain points through Design Thinking and Analytics.
Edward is currently the Canada Lead for Bixby, Samsung’s Artificial intelligent assistant, and also manages SmartThings (IoT) app, Samsung Health, Smart Cities initiatives and other revenue generating services.
His past experience includes working with internal stakeholders to increase revenue, acquire/retain subscribers in TELUS’ Strategic Analytics team, and as a Monitor Deloitte strategy consultant involved in strategy, intrapreneurship and innovation initiatives. Edward was also an IBM Extreme Blue Product Manager focusing on Social Media Analytics where he managed the product roadmap and developed a business case for a social media benchmarking product.
At Rotman, Edward majored in innovation and entrepreneurship. He believes rules are meant only as guidelines and looks for creative work-arounds.
Edward enjoys volunteering at UofT and long road trips. Edward is also an avid gamer and was ranked top 5% globally in Battlefield 4.

David is a corporate and commercial lawyer with expertise in media, intellectual property, and information technology
At Caravel Law, David works with clients on commercial and IT legal matters. His work includes the drafting and negotiating of master services agreements, professional services agreements, software licenses and support agreements, purchase agreements, and hosting agreements.

His clients have included the Canadian Cancer Society, Capital One Bank, Digiflare, Q4 Web Systems, and Wave Accounting.

David has extensive experience in drafting technology license and service agreements, digital media agreements, pre-litigation documents, and traditional media agreements.

Dag is the President of Siltech Corporation, a manufacturer of unique silicone chemicals.  A Queen’s University Commerce graduate he obtained a CPA (CA) designation in 1986 while working as a Tax manager in Ernst & Young’s Calgary office.  Dag then returned to Toronto and marketed and sold financial products to individual clients from 1988 to 1995.  He joined Siltech in 1996 during its startup and has been involved in most aspects of the business.  Siltech now has two manufacturing plants, in Toronto and Mississauga, and services customers around the globe.

Chris Hunter represents clients in the acquisition, enforcement and exploitation of all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and trade secrets.

His practice focuses on providing strategic advice to clients concerning their intellectual property portfolios, and providing litigation support for infringement and misappropriation actions.

He also regularly negotiates and drafts agreements, including licences, joint development agreements and various other technology-related agreements. He was significantly involved in representing Nortel in the historic $4.5 billion sale of its patent portfolio.
As a registered patent agent, Mr. Hunter drafts and prosecutes patent applications for electrical, mechanical, business method, software and information technology-related inventions. He also specializes in industrial designs. Mr. Hunter is also a registered trade-mark agent.
Prior to joining our Toronto office, Mr. Hunter was a partner at another major law firm in Toronto. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a management consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

CEO at Startup Platform, previously software engineer at Cisco, electrical and computer engineering graduate from University of Toronto.

Charles Boulakia is a partner of Ridout & Maybee LLP in the firm’s Toronto office. His practice is principally directed towards the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the biotechnology, chemistry, biofuel, oil and gas and pharmaceutical areas. Charles provides his clients with IP due diligence, validity, and freedom to operate opinions. Charles also drafts and negotiates license agreements and occasionally advises on food and drug regulatory law, including product labelling and advertising. Previous to his career in law, Charles worked briefly in venture capital, “big pharma”, and for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Brenden is a builder for user focused products with data driven insights and he is passionate to follow through execution.

With the above three, he has successfully launched multiple solutions and services from smartphones to mobile, connected and smart home apps. He now looks to lead teams in doing the same.

Bob Cherniak provides Cherniak Software clients the \’something extra\’, the creative spark. Bob has led the development of ERP systems that serve as the nerve centers of the organizations that use them in such areas as Discrete Manufacturing, Continuous Process Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution, Project Management, Professional Services, Real Estate, Health Care, Association Membership Management, Insurance & Financial Services, and Alumni Engagement. Bob is a graduate of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. He has lectured at both at the University of Toronto and York University. He has been active for a long time in various volunteer activities (e.g. Big Brothers, Frontier College), and still manages to squeeze in some time for canoe tripping in the far north, and for hiking, woodworking, and reading.

Innovation. Integrity. Motivation. Hard Work. Success.
These are the values Blake lives by. Chronically looking for the next adventure – whether it’s in the office or on the road – Blake is an energetic, creative professional with an approach to work and life that rarely prevents him from getting dirty. An avid outdoorsman, Blake takes his experiences from the woods and brings them to board rooms offering simple solutions to messy problems. He likes taking creative ideas and turning them into commercial results. Blake started Snowexplore.com in 2014 because he wanted to turn a passion of his into a model for growth. He started R&D initiatives for small businesses, run digital campaigns for governments, initiated communications and media platforms for a brewery, and planted 102,000 trees in Northern Ontario. With extensive experience in marketing, communications, content and media, Blake is a ‘first in, last out’ kind of guy – never afraid of a hard days work.