LinkedIn: Denise Broady Denise is CMO at Appian. She has over 25+ years of experience as a change agent scaling businesses from start-ups, turnarounds and complex software companies. Prior to Appian, Denise was COO at SAP and CMO/COO at WorkForce Software. She is also a two-time published author of GRC for Dummies and Driven to Perform. Denise holds a double degree in Marketing and Production and Operations from Virginia Tech. ***Have any questions or comments? Email m...

LinkedIn: Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie, Brett Huneycutt Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie is the Vice President of Engineering at Wealthsimple. Prior to joining their executive team, she established Lever’s first R&D teams outside of San Francisco; created and grew successful teams at Shopify and Blackberry QNX; and held various roles at IBM and several startups. Brett Huneycutt is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wealthsimple. Prior to Wealthsimple, he co-founded ph...

LinkedIn: Eric Cross Eric Cross is Chief Revenue Officer at Appian. He has 20+ years experience leading and scaling high growth go to market organizations. He brings a diverse background with organizations sub $25M to $1.5B in direct and indirect revenue models spanning a diverse set of established and emerging technology categories. Recently, he was a member of the senior leadership team leading Apigee from mid stage start up through successful IPO and eventual acquisition by Go...

LinkedIn: Eric Cross Eric has 20+ years experience leading and scaling high growth go to market organizations. He brings a diverse background with organizations sub $25M to $1.5B in direct and indirect revenue models spanning a diverse set of established and emerging technology categories. Recently, he was a member of the senior leadership team leading Apigee from mid stage start up through successful IPO and eventual acquisition by Google. Prior, he served in various senior leade...

LinkedIn: Mike Murchison Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-founder of Ada, a venture-back AI-powered platform that is transforming how businesses around the world, including TELUS, Zoom and AirAsia, provide customer service. Before Ada, Mike answered tens of thousands of customer service inquiries manually firsthand. Using this experience, he set out to build Ada’s platform that puts the benefits of AI into the hands of non-technical support teams to build, manage, and track ROI-dr...

LinkedIn: Laura Adams Laura Adams is currently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Canada. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Laura worked as a management consultant in Stockholm, Sweden and Washington, DC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia with degrees in International Business and Finance. Laura is a former NCAA All-American swimmer and has won an SEC Championship and the NCAA Woman of the Year award. She is a member of the Ticker Club, YPO and the Toronto Clu...

LinkedIn: Jesse Abrams Recently distinguished by the American Marketing Association Hall of Legends as one of Canada’s top 5 “Marketers on the Rise” and by Marketing Magazine as a “Top 30 Under 30” Marketer in Canada, Jesse is an accomplished Digital Marketer and Advertiser who has a passion for growing businesses and never settling for the status quo. Jesse brings this passion for change and growth as the founder of Homewise, where he looks to change the face of the mortgage industry. ...

Socials: LinkedIn, Twitter Michael Serbinis is the founder and CEO of League. With more than $1B of exits, he is known as a visionary leader and entrepreneur who has built several transformative technology platforms across industries. Serbinis worked alongside Elon Musk at Zip2 and founded and helped build Kobo, Critical Path, DocSpace, and now League. League is North America’s leading enterprise health OS, a data-driven platform designed to provide a personalized, single access hub for...

LinkedIn: Ellen Hyslop Ellen Hyslop is the Co-Founder of The GIST. The GIST is a sports media startup that creates sports content, experiences and community that are by women, and for all sports fans. For the last two years, The GIST has shaken up the male-dominated sports media space by creating an inclusive and accessible community for all sports fans through our irreverent, fun and female voice. Ellen is Co-Founder and Head of Content for The GIST. She is mainly responsibl...

LinkedIn: Aly Dhalla Aly Dhalla is the CEO and co-founder of Finaeo, a venture-backed InsurTech startup that has built a platform to help insurance advisors win in a digital era. Finaeo's operating system provides advisors a specialized CRM, digital tool-kit and paired it with an intelligent assistant/chat-bot, Domo, to create the "Bionic Advisor". Aly spent his early career as a banker at TD before leaving to join a startup as their first employee, which was acquired by Benefits ...