| Jim Charlton | Chairman | Jim Charlton is a Senior Vice President, Investments for GrowthWorks Capital Ltd., a venture capital fund manager with $700 million in assets under management. He has 22 years of venture capital industry experience. Mr. Charlton is currently a director of three companies: CellFor, LightHaus Logic, and Mixpo Technologies. He is currently on the Valuation and Statistics Committee of the Canadian Venture Capital Association. GrowthWorks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Matrix Asset Management, a diversified asset and wealth management company. |
| Ion Yadigaroglu | Director | Ion Yadigaroglu is responsible for direct investments at Capricorn Investment Group. Capricorn manages $4B of capital in a long-term-focused, global, multi-asset class fund, with a principled, thematic approach. Its client are a select group of high net worth individuals and institutions, and include the Skoll Foundation. From 2001 to 2004, Ion executed a range of acquisitions and investments as a Director of Business Development at Koch Industries, the largest private company in the world by revenues. From 1998 to 2001, Ion was CEO of Bivio, a company that provides services to retail investment partnerships. From 1985 to 1992, he was an analyst at Olsen & Associates, a Zurich-based foreign exchange analytics and trading company. Ion serves on the boards of directors of SeaChange Maritime, Zag.com, Agrica, Automatiks, Targeted Growth, CellFor Inc., and Falcon Waterfree. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from ETHZ in Switzerland, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Stanford University. |