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Eduardo Serna is a Mexican-born entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He is the CEO and Co Founder of Canadian Based Cardiotrack Their goal is to be a Personalized automated vital signs screening with AI-enabled health data-driven decisions.

Robert Kaul is the Founder & CEO of Cloud DX, Inc., a leader in digital healthcare based in Kitchener ON and Brooklyn NY. The company focuses on analyzing proprietary vital sign data from bespoke medical devices and mobile apps. In the new world of COVID-19, virtual care is in high demand but accurate data from remote, isolated patients is rare – Cloud DX fills that niche. Their team has earned over a dozen awards for innovation excellence, including the Bold Epic Innovator Award in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, “Visionary” in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Vision 2 Reality Awards, “World Changing Idea” from Fast Company Magazine and most recently Finalist for a 2021 Edison Award. Robert is a contributor to the Forbes Technology Council. He earned a BSc from University of Alberta and an Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan.

xCEO, xCOO helping founders understand their potential from market research to sales and marketing execution to fundraising. Trusted advisor in building early-stage companies. Focused on cleantech, agtech, and fintech to make a better world.

Naveed is an Entrepreneur who is passionate about supporting the Canadian start up ecosystem. Currently Naveed is actively involved in three initiatives: CEO of Heart Health Institute, Advisor with the CAN Health Network and Entrepreneur in Residence at the DMZ Accelerator based in Toronto.

Founder of Acquire Agency and Fates.ai.   

Acquire Agency is an agency that specializes in performance Facebook Advertising. Acquire is a premium partner of Facebook that has deployed over $100M in ad spend.  Fates.ai is a machine learning tool that helps advertisers overcome the challenges of iOS 14.

Kevin Smith is The Story Architect. In his 25+ year career in sales, marketing, & entrepreneurship, Kevin has done over 10,000 pitches. Kevin helps businesses & start-ups unleash their story to secure customers and investors, by helping them understand what their core customer story is and then helping them get their story to market. Kevin spent 14+ years at Dell in consumer sales, B2B sales, Enterprise Sales, Enterprise Marketing, and M&A GTM Strategy. After helping to develop go to market strategies for their acquired startups, he reconnected with his passion for entrepreneurship and began helping startups and growing businesses full time. His expertise include branding, messaging, marketing strategy, SEO, Content and Social Media marketing, presentation and pitch design, web design, lead generation, sales coaching and business development. He’s provided mentorship to startups through the RIC Centre, Humber Launch, U of T i-Cube, Startup Toronto / TorontoStarts, Startup York’s Y2 and Startup Next in addition to delivering educational entrepreneurial workshops as a MaRS facilitator. He also participates as a judge for startup pitch competitions and has spent time with angel investor groups as a subject matter expert.

Patrick Mandic, Co-Founder and CEO, was previously Senior Manager at Deloitte consulting where he led the IoT practice in Eastern Canada and was global Chief of Staff for the Technology Strategy practice, comprised of over 3,500 practitioners globally. Patrick was responsible for large scale digital transformation in a wide range of industries (e.g. automotive, financial services, education, professional services, etc.). Prior to that, Patrick worked in R&D in the telecommunication sector and in digital infrastructure deployment projects for the French Defense contractor Thales. Patrick holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication engineering from the UPC in Barcelona, Spain, a M.Sc. in Information Technology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Giancarlo Sessa, 23 year old serial entrepeneur, co-founder of Blade Filters. As leaders in the air filtration industry, Blade Filters has not only created the world’s first zero-waste carbon filter, for odour control in the cannabis industry, but they are also helping schools and businesses reopen safely with their HEPA air purifiers!

Mannr is a personal shopping and delivery service for men based in Toronto. We help men look their best, effortlessly.

GrowthX is a venture capital fund run by operators with extensive go-to-market experience. We invest at the seed stage in B2B SaaS and marketplace opportunities founded by diverse teams who recognize the need and want help finding product-market fit. Being helpful is our primary form of due diligence. Our portfolio founders have access to our Market Acceleration Program, our private accelerator focused on everything you need to go to market, engage with your customers and win revenue.