Norm Cappell, Head of Capital Markets, Borrowell: Norm led Canadian high yield bond origination for RBC Capital Markets, and previously worked in leveraged finance at Citadel Investment Group and Merrill Lynch in New York. Prior to that, Norm practiced corporate law in New York and London with Cahill Gordon and Allen & Overy. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a degree in English literature from UC Berkeley.

Laurence is founder and CEO of nanoPay Corporation, a SaaS business that provides loyalty and payments in a single use token to retailers and online merchants. nanoPay recently purchased MintChip™ from the Royal Canadian Mint, the first regulator friendly digital cash platform offering frictionless™ payments. Prior to starting nanoPay, Laurence was an independent management consultant with a focus on high tech and telecommunications. Most of his work is with private equity, equity analysts and wireless new entrants.

Previously, Laurence worked with WIND Canada and was Vice President of Wireless at Shaw Communications Inc. He was also Chief Operating Officer of Bell Mobility and Bell Distribution Inc., a Bell Canada Officer and Director of Bell Mobility, Bell Distribution Inc., and DownEast. As COO, Laurence was responsible for a P&L approaching $5bn in revenue and $2bn in EBITDA, nearly 9,000 employees and serving over 6 million wireless customers throughout Canada.

Laurence was responsible for all of Bell Mobility’s operations, including sales (consumer and business), client care, base marketing, network and IS/IT. Laurence was also responsible for Bell Canada’s distribution operations – Bell Distribution Inc., which included corporate stores, dealers, national retail and logistics. Bell Distribution was responsible for the sales of all Bell Mobility (wireless), Bell ExpressVu (satellite TV), Bell home phone and Bell Sympatico (ISP) products across all channels.

Prior to joining Bell, Laurence held several senior executive positions with leading wireless and high-tech organizations, including Senior Executive at Accenture Communications and High Tech Strategy practice in London. Laurence co-founded two wireless data businesses in Europe: Melodeo, Inc., which developed an end-to- end download music solution for wireless operators and Xtempus, which created a wireless data platform for operators. Prior to that, Laurence served as board member and Director of Business Development for CPP Group plc. Laurence has had many executive and non-executive board positions in companies across Europe.

Laurence holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the London Business School (University of London), and a BSc degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He also studied at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.

Brad is co-founder of IPMG AG, a Swiss company specializing in Intellectual Property strategy and licensing. Over the course of his career, he has driven over US$1B in intellectual property transactions. Brad is also the founder of PicDS, Inc., a US based strategic consulting and investment management firm.

For 2009-2010, Brad was a consultant for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), reorganizing the 150 person R&D organization to optimize the future research plan and resourcing, move facilities, and guide the team to triple their IP licensing income.

Earlier in his career, Brad spent 16 years at Microsoft Corporation where he held a number of senior management positions.

Brad is an inventor or co-inventor on 14 patents. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Thomas Beattie has more than 12 years’ experience in financial services and investment banking, and has been Voleo’s CEO since January 2015. Over the course of his career Thomas has been involved with the raising billions of dollars of capital for public and private companies, and led numerous M&A transactions. He started his first business at the age of 10, conceived a concept for a virtual stock market while in university, and has since contemplated other platforms to improve access to and efficiency of capital markets. Thomas is a CFA charterholder and holds a BComm (Finance) from Sauder School of Business at UBC (Vancouver, BC, Canada).

Grant is the CEO of okanii Inc., and brings over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development within the financial services and telecommunication industries, holding senior and executive positions at several Canadian companies including; CIBC, Paymentronics, and Nortel Networks. In addition, Grant was also an investment banker specializing in M&A with a focus on the tech industry for Scotia Capital and Crosby & Company. Grant holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Western Ontario an MBA from Dalhousie University and executive MBA courses from Wharton School of Business.

Austin Hill is an entrepreneur and active investor. In 1994, Austin founded one of the first Internet providers in Canada, Total.Net (Sold to BCE Emergis in 1997). After that, he co-founded Zero–Knowledge Systems, the largest and most funded research company focused around cypherpunk technologies for privacy, anonymity, and electronic cash. The company also pioneered anonymous networking technology and invented cryptographic identity trust metric systems. Since leaving Zero–Knowledge in 2006, Austin has been an active angel investor, social entrepreneur focused on meaningful games and gift economies. Austin was a Venture Partner with Montreal Startup and helped create Real Ventures, Canada’s leading early stage venture capital firm. Working with executive MBA programs and as a partner with Founder Fuel (Real Ventures early stage accelerator), Austin has mentored more than 60 early stage startups. Austin has been involved in the founding of hundreds of companies as an investor, founder, board member or, more often, as an instigating participant. Austin is also a registered Jedi Knight, a magician and he loves to play games of all types.

Marc Borbas has worked in the application and network security software industry for more than 12 years, with an extensive background in marketing, business strategy and product development.

Prior to joining INETCO, Marc was Group Product Manager at Sophos, a leading network security company based in the United Kingdom. He was the catalyst behind Sophos’s strategic investment in the web security market and drove the resulting product from inception through full market launch.

Before Sophos, Marc was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Business Objects, a leading business intelligence company. He joined Business Objects through its 2003 acquisition of Crystal Decisions, where he was a key member of the team that built the Crystal brand and marketing strategy and delivered 30% year-over- year revenue growth over 11 straight quarters.

Prior to that, he held technical marketing positions at Fincentric, a provider of financial services software. Marc has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University.