Ian is an executive consultant and independent director with 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He has proven expertise in mentoring and developing high performance sales and marketing organizations, organizational planning, business and strategic planning and product management and development. Most recently Ian was President & Chief Executive Officer as well as a Board member with Certicom Corp.
As CEO, Steve possesses over 15 years of experience in the customer communications management space. He is the architect of Messagepoint’s highly regarded Integrated Approach methodology and is a leading expert on the design, development and management of enterprise-class customer touchpoints. His strategic consulting and facilitation skills have enabled Messagepoint to help many Fortune 1000 companies transform the way they communicate with their customers. Steve has a B.A.Sc. (Systems Design Engineering) and M.A.Sc. (Management Sciences – Information Systems) from the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo ON.
Roger is a Managing Partner at Volition Capital, and focuses on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Prior to helping found Volition Capital in 2010, Roger was a partner at Fidelity Ventures where he focused on early growth equity investments. Roger was also a partner at Apax Partners, focused primarily on investments in enterprise software and technology-enabled services. Before that, he worked for GE Capital and was a Vice President of GE Equity, where he played a key role in developing the technology group’s investment strategy for business-to-business electronic commerce. Roger received a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Syracuse University in 1987 and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
Jake is a Principal at Volition Capital and focuses on investment opportunities in software and technology-enabled services. Prior to joining Volition, Jake worked for Fidelity Ventures helping to execute the firm’s investments as well as source new investment leads. Prior to working at Fidelity Ventures, Jake worked in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Group at Cowen and Company where he helped to execute public and private equity offerings as well as M&A transactions. Jake received a BA in Economics from Colby College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.