Mentors
We engage a group of highly successful and dedicated alumni and community members in our mentor program who volunteer their time to supporting LaunchPad's founders.
Team Mentoring
Research conducted at MIT shows that team mentoring is more valuable for the startups. Startups are exposed to more than one perspective to develop important critical thinking and decision-making skills. They have access to a much wider network of mentors to act as a sounding board for their ideas or to access when needed for their specific area of expertise. The mentors also gain from the network and the ability to connect and give back in a meaningful way.
Mentor Matching
One of the most unique aspects of our mentoring program is that we do not match our mentors with startups. Instead we allow our mentors to self-select the startups that they feel they can add the most value to based on their expertise and interests.
Meet Our LaunchPad Mentors
Owen Allerton
Chief Marketing Officer, Verda
Kaleah Baker
Co-founder and COO, BridesMade
Neal Belovay
Co-founder, PicThrive
Harold DeVries
Professor and Business Advisor
Melissa Durrell
President, Durrell Communications
Gord Ellis
President and CEO, Soft Grid Analytics
Bryan Fedorak
Former Founder and CEO, Bartesian
Jeff Gadway
Co-founder, Galvanize Worldwide
Roman Hatashita
President, Hatashita International
Matthew Kruschack
Major Account Executive, TransUnion
Sarah Langille
Associate, Miller Thompson LLP
Jeff MacIntyre
Vice President Sales and Corporate Development Cadence Agricultural Sytems
Mallory McKewen
President and CEO, BridesMade
Frank Newman
Chief Human Resources Environmentalist, Newman Resources Consulting
Dean Pacey
Principal, 3rd Period Consulting
Sadaf Qayumi
Education Customer Advocacy Manager, D2L
Andrew Ringer
Co-founder and CEO, Alaunus
Blair Sherman
Analyst, BDC Venture Canada
Lori Simpson
Founding Partnerm Leading Minds Lab
Amir Solowiejczyk
Senior Partner, Success Manager, Auvik
Aron Tennant
CTO, Socialpeeks
David Trueman
Former Tech Executive
Paul Weber
Former CEO, Perimeter Medical Imaging
Shannon Weber
Prinicpal, Shannon Weber Consulting