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MentorCamp Final on Monday Sept 24th at Innovacorp Enterprise Center
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September 21, 2012
HALIFAX, NS (September 21, 2012) –
Atlantic Canada’s MentorCamp 2012 Final – a one-day international mentoring event – will
be held on September 24, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at The Innovacorp
Enterprise Centre (Life Sciences Research Institute), 1344 Summer Street, Halifax.
Preliminary MentorCamp events have been held throughout the year in different cities across the region. The nine best companies, as selected by highly-regarded regional mentors including Gerry Pond and Jevon MacDonald, are being provided the opportunity to be mentored by a more diverse group, including both regional and global business leaders, venture capitalists and technology experts – all forming an unprecedented group of more than 40 highly talented globally-recognized mentors.
“The idea of holding MentorCamp events in Atlantic Canada is largely inspired by 4Front Atlantic,” says Permjot Valia, CEO of MentorCamp, referring to the movement that encourages regional collaboration and global connectivity to build the region’s business sector. Several mentors are coming from outside the region, and many will be visiting Canada for the first time. Most will be spending several days in Halifax for other aspects of Atlantic Innovation Week, which runs from September 23 – 27, 2012.
“This is a unique, first-time opportunity for the nine finalist companies to receive expert,
international mentoring and to develop potentially lucrative global connections,” says Valia. The companies will deliver their presentations, then participate in 30-minute mentoring sessions for the balance of the day. At the conclusion, two companies may be offered $25,000 each as an investment from
MentorCamp.
Members of the media are invited to attend and report on all aspects of the morning presentations. During mentoring sessions, however, due to the confidential nature of business strategies being discussed, reporters are asked to obtain permission from company owners prior to publication.
Finalist Companies
- Jumpstart 720
- Strue
- Springleap
- Znanja
- Leadsift
- Tabture
- Xiplinx
- G2 Research
- Boondoc
Mentors
- Jeff Amerine – Technology Licensing Officer,
University of Arkansas, – Fayetteville, Arkansas
- David Baxter – Director, T4G – Moncton, New
Brunswick
- Lane Becker – Co-author, “Get Lucky” Co-founder
of Get Satisfaction & Adaptive Path. – San Francisco, California
- Miriam Leia Bekkouche – Innovation Officer,
DFAIT – New York, New York
- Dominique Bélanger – Director, Strategic
Investments & Initiatives, BDC – Montreal, Quebec
- John Black – Business Development, Google –
Denver, Colorado
- Tim Burke –Co-CEO at Impetus Innovations Inc,
President, Quark Engineering – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Steve Carr – Senior Manager, Taxation,
Deloitte – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Shawn Carver – Partner, The Next Phase.ca –
Moncton, New Brunswick
- Ian Cavanagh – CEO, Ambir – Halifax, Nova
Scotia
- Rob Cowan – Partner, McInnes Cooper –
Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Richard Dawson – Head of Commercial Banking,
Atlantic Canada, HSBC – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Colin Deacon – CEO, BlueLight Analytics Inc.
– Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Fergus Dyer-Smith – CEO, Wooshii.com –
Manchester, United Kingdom
- Timo Ewalds – Entrepreneur – Edmonton, Alberta
- David Fraser – Partner, McInnes Cooper –
Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Parm Gill – Managing Partner, Gill Consulting
Group – Ottawa, Ontario
- Sandra Goodwin – Director of Client
Development, McInnes Cooper – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Patrick Hankinson – CEO, Compilr.com –
Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Brenda Hogan – Investment & Portfolio
Manager, Ontario Capital Growth Corporation – Toronto, Ontario
- Daniel Holland – Managing Director, Beacon
Securities – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Jeff Hoyt – Partner, McInnes Cooper – Saint
John, New Brunswick
- David Hyndman – Founder SiteValet.com,
Entrepreneur – Charlottetown, PEI
- Adam Jackson – Founder, DriverSide.com – San
Francisco, California
- Patrick Keefe – Vice President, Investment,
Innovacorp – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Mark Kennedy – CEO, Celtx.com – St. John’s,
Newfoundland & Labrador
- Julia Law – Senior Consultant, Kates Kesler
Organization Consulting, Former VP Global Human Resources, Nike Incorporated –
Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Nicole LeBlanc – Director of Finance, NBIF –
Fredericton, New Brunswick
- Trevor MacAusland – Executive Director,
Launch36 and Propel ICT – Moncton, New Brunswick
- Jevon MacDonald – CEO, GoInstant.com and
Director, MentorCamp.ca – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Mark MacLeod – General Partner, Real Ventures
– Montreal Quebec
- Patrick Mason – Consultant for Growth and
Marketing Plan, at Discovery Garden, Tech Markets Inc. – Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island
- Dean Morrison – Partner, Deloitte – Toronto,
Ontario
- Thor Muller – Co-author, “Get Lucky”,
Co-Founder, Get Satisfaction – New York, New York
- Jackie Naish – Partner, Deloitte – Halifax,
Nova Scotia
- Nimeshh Patel – Co-founder, AccelerateLtd.com
– London, United Kingdom
- Gerry Pond – Chairman, Mariner Partners and
Chair, MentorCamp.ca – Saint John, New Brunswick
- Thomas Rankin – Investment Manager,
Innovacorp – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Julia Rivard – Partner, Norex.ca – Halifax,
Nova Scotia
- April Seggebruch – VP, MV Retail.com –
Bentonville, Arkansas
- Justin Stanford – Partner, 4DI Group –
Capetown, South Africa
- Damien Steele – Senior Associate, OMERS
Ventures – Toronto, Ontario
- Jeff Stockhausen – Industrial Technology
Advisor, NRC-IRAP – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Jeff White – Chief Operating Officer, East
Valley Ventures – Saint John, New Brunswick
For more
information, or to register as media, contact:
Permjot Valia
CEO,
MentorCamp
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 1-647-930-2167
http://mentorcamp.ca/
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