Clear your calendars - It's going down!
East Coast Startup Week Speaker Series presented by Planet Hatch kicks off on March 18th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities! We have an incredible mix of speaker sessions and break-out sessions where top-notch entrepreneurs and investors will be sharing their stories and experiences.
Our speakers have raised millions for their ventures and have also invested millions into other startups! Learn about their experiences.
This is going to be epic!
PS.... see below more more info on our speakers!
Incredible Entrepreneurial Stories...
John Stix
President of Fibernetics
Culture Guru, Mobile & Digital Marketing,
Client relations with Fortune 500, Happiness Advocate!
John Stix’s career as an entrepreneur in telecommunications and marketing has provided him with the experience taking startups to enterprise level organizations. Along with his belief in the “I’m in!” initiative, John is passionate about culture in companies and sees great companies depending upon great culture to survive and thrive. As a mentor, John helps guide the next generation of business leaders to produce world changing products and services to market. He mentors Fibernetics Ventures Inc. and its associated companies: Fongo, Cloud at Cost, Rack & Data and Plasticity.
Sean Power
Startup Executive
Data & Analytics, Advisor at KISSmetrics,
Mentor at Google NEXT & Highline.vc
Sean Power is a startup executive, advisor to founders and an internationally published author who often speaks on topics relating to technology and business. He advises early stage startups, with a particular focus on media and SaaS business models, and is passionate about businesses that revolve around data, analytics, music or gaming. Sean is or has been associated as an executive with startups such as Dishcrawl, The Coveteur, KISSmetrics, The New Hive, Cheezburger, Akoha, CoTweet, PostRank, and Coradiant. He is a current mentor for Toronto-based Highline.vc and the Google NEXT incubator.
More speakers joining in on the fun!
April Dunford
Startup Executive
Sales & Marketing expert, B2B Marketing, Obsessed with numbers!
April Dunford has spent the past 20 years focused on bringing new products to market. She has run marketing and sales at five startups, four of which she took from less than $1 million revenue through to successful exits. An engineer by training, April is obsessed with numbers, process-oriented and revenue-focused.
Ken Seto
CEO & Founder of Massive Damage
Mobile gaming & Design, User Experience, Zombie Fighter!
Making mobiles apps and games since the dawn of the App Store, Ken Seto is the CEO and Co-founder of game studio Massive Damage and the co-founder of design/dev shop Endloop. He is currently working on a new strategy game called Halcyon 6. The Kickstarter campaign for that will be live in March 2015.
Jeff Grammer
Partner at Rho Ventures
Investor, Entrepreneur and much more!
With nearly 31 years of operational and venture experience, Jeff Grammer seeks entrepreneurs who see market opportunities and possess the business acumen to nurture young companies to become industry leaders. He focuses primarily on investments in new media, information technology (hardware and software) and communication companies – mostly at the seed and early stages of development. Jeff has experience working operationally at Intel, Chips and Technologies, N*Able Technologies and Ember Corporation.
Jeremy Potvin
Founder of World of Angus
Apparel & Distribution Expert, Branding Guru, Dog Lover!
Jeremy Potvin is the Startup Journeyman and a life long entrepreneur. He has over 20 years entrepreneurial experience that includes a depth of knowledge in fields ranging from fashion distribution to retail operations to tech startups. He shares his experiences and helps early stage startups navigate the pitfalls and manage the risks they encounter as they launch. He is featured in the 2013 documentary Day Job, detailing the process, struggles, sacrifices and hardships of chasing a dream and building a startup.
Heather Anne Carson
Co-Founder of Onboardly
PR & Media Guru, Incredible Storyteller, Feisty Redhead
As the ultimate 'people person', Heather’s focus is on cultivatingrelationships between brands and influencers and translating client goals into actionable campaigns through PR and influencer marketing. Dedicated to client success, Heather pours passion and insight into every client project, inspiring her team to deliver exceptional results. Her leadership philosophy is simple: inspire the people around you and anything becomes possible. She’s helped Onboardly’s clients secure coverage in major publications such as Entrepreneur, New York Times Magazine and Forbes.
Dominique Belanger
VP of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at BDC Venture Capital
Entrepreneur and investor
Before joining BDC, Dominique Belanger was co-founder and President of Gamerizon Studio, Inc. Before that he was Chief Financial Officer of the venture-backed Quazal Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Ubisoft). Dominique has vast experience advising various technology companies and private investors on investments, financing, startups and restarts.
Matt Roberts
Associate Director at BDC IT Venture Fund
Entrepreneur and Investor
With an industry knowledge of semiconductors, software, internet technologies and telecommunications, Matt Roberts primarily focuses on early stage Seed and Series “A” opportunities. Prior to starting to BDC, he was an analyst at venture capital firm Wesley Clover, best known as billionaire entrepreneur Terry Matthews' investment group, where he coordinated internal operations and facilitated the investments of new startup companies. Before that, at just 18, he was the youngest project coordinator at Newbridge Networks, working in the LMDS wireless group (now part of Alcatel Canada). Matt also has experience as co-founder and CEO at his own startup, JohnnyVoIP, a company that developed a VoIP application platform for webapps.
David Borcsok
Fund Manager at
RBC Generator
David Borcsok is the Fund Manager of the RBC Generator; an early stage impact investment venture capital fund raised as part of the RBC Social Finance Initiative. He is a Board Advisor for Venture for Canada, and serves as a Mentor and Advisor to MaRS JOLT Accelerator, OCADU Imagination Lab and the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program . David has also worked with TrilogyGrowth, LP; an early stage venture capital firm. While in graduate school, David was a Venture Fellow with two early-stage angel investment groups, as well as a Venture Advisor to the Brown University Technology Transfer and Ventures Office.
Sunil Sharma
Managing Partner at Extreme Venture Partners
Sunil Sharma was co-founder of Extreme Startups, one of Canada’s leading technology accelerators. Backed by 5 of Canada’s best venture capital funds, Sunil has co-lead investments into more than 18 companies. Sunil is very active in the technology ecosystem across Canada and particularly in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor, where he serves as EIR at Communitech. Sunil is Co-Director of the Founder Institute, the world’s most global accelerator program.
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