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Akoha Angel Investors
John Meeks
Managing Partner, TA Associates Private Equity – LondonMr. Meeks joined the firm’s Boston office as an Associate in 1997 and was promotedto Vice President in 2000. He specializes in recapitalizations and management buyoutsof technology growth companies. Mr. Meeks has participated in a number of TA’sinvestments and currently serves on the Board of Directors for CFRA Holdings, LLC,GlobeOp Financial Services, Lava Trading Inc., Mythic Entertainment, Inc. and NaviSys,Inc. He was an active investor in Datek Online Holdings Corp. and The Island ECN.Before joining TA, Mr. Meeks was a financial analyst in the Information Services Groupat Robertson, Stephens & Company. He received his BS in Mathematics, withdistinction, from Yale University in 1995.
 Rob Dembo
Dr. Ron Dembo is the Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, a not-for-profit thatcombines the best financial engineering, environmental engineering, and businessintelligence to create products and services that help organizations and individualssignificantly reduce their environmental footprint. Prior to founding Zerofootprint, Dr.Dembo was the Founder, CEO, and President of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing itfrom a start-up to the largest enterprise risk-management software company in theworld, with offices in fifteen countries and over 70% of the world's top 100 banks asclients. Algorithmics was consistently voted as one of the top 50 best managedcompanies in Canada. Dr. Dembo has also had a distinguished ten-year academiccareer at Yale University, where he was cross-appointed between the Department of Computer Science and the School of Management. Dr. Dembo has published over sixtytechnical papers on finance and mathematical optimization, and holds a number of patents in computational finance.Dr. Dembo is the author of three books: Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk,co-authored with Andrew Freedman, published in April 1998; Upside Downside:Simple Rules of Risk Management for the Smart Investor, co-authored with DanielStoffman, published in March 2006; and Everything You Wanted to Know AboutOffsetting But Were Afraid to Ask, co-authored with Clive Davidson, and released inMay 2007. In May 2007, Dr. Dembo was made a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow. Thisfellowship is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to theFields Institute, its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community. In July2007, Dr. Dembo was inducted as a charter member of the Risk Who's Who
.
John & Blake Bromley
Blake is a globally-recognized expert on strategic planning for benevolentorganizations and the law of charity. In Canada, he regularly advises benevolentorganizations on strategic and structural issues and litigates matters, seeking toenhance the law of gift and charity. He has incorporated and registered well over 500charities and non-profit organizations and helps donors achieve their philanthropicgoals, planning well over $1.5 billion worth of charitable gifts. Blake is equally activeinternationally where he has advised governments in Russia, Vietnam, England,Australia, South Africa and Eastern Europe on the drafting of laws governing socialorganizations. He is currently advising the Chinese government on the drafting of theproposed charity law. Blake is routinely invited to speak to government committeesand conferences all over the world. As President of Benefic Group, Blake is particularlyinterested in helping benevolent organizations address the legal, technical andregulatory issues that may hamper their delivery of charitable services.
 
 
Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer
JS Cournoyer has been in high technology since the mid nineties both as anentrepreneur and an investor. as well as being a Venture Partner with Montreal startUp, he is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Vantage Point Venture Partners(VPVP), a diversified technology venture capital fund based in San Bruno, CA where hefocuses on investments in ITC. Before VPVP, JS was responsible for the venture capitalinvestment activities of la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP), leadingnumerous investments in the areas of Internet, wireless, semiconductors andnetworking and also investing in numerous venture funds in Canada and the USA.Priorto CDP, JS was an early investor, CFO and Vice President, business development atTerrascale Technologies Inc., a storage software company that was sold to RackableSystems (NASDAQ: RACK). Before Terrascale, JS was with Innovatech, an early-stageventure fund where he lead numerous investments in digital media, Internet, wireless,networking and software infrastructure.JS has also co-founded two Internetcompanies in the Boston area and was a management consultant with Arthur D. Little,Inc., focusing on the telecommunications and energy industries.In addition to MSUand VPVP, JS is active in the Canadian high-tech community, both as an angel investorin and advisor to technology companies. He is a also a director of Techno Montrealand is involved in numerous projects including an Internet incubator.JS received a B.A.in Physics cum laude from Middlebury College. He is married with 5 wonderfulchildren.
Jonathan Wener
Jonathan Wener, Chairman Mr. Wener has over 35 years of experience as a real estateprofessional in the commercial, industrial, retail, residential and hotel sectors.Mr. Wener is Chairman, CEO and principal shareholder of the Canderel Group of Companies, a large independent real estate developer with several hundred milliondollar projects both in Canada and the United States. The Canderel Group of Companies also provides comprehensive development, management and assetmanagement services.Mr. Wener is an active member of the Board of Governors for Concordia Universityand the foundation for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. Wener is an activemember of the Advisory Board for the YMCA Foundation as well as recent President of the Board of Directors for the Jewish General Hospital.Mr. Wener also sits on the Board of Directors for various other corporations includingthe Laurentian Bank of Canada, Laurentian Trust of Canada Inc., B2B Trust and anumber of early stage high-tech companies.Mr. Wener holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University
 
 
Reg Weiser
Reginald Weiser attended McGill University and received his electrical engineeringdegree from Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Daltech). He was awarded anHonorary Engineering Doctorate Degree in Engineering for imaginativeentrepreneurship and revolutionary leadership by Dalhousie University (Daltech) inMay 1996.In 1970, he founded Positron Inc., where he is still the Chairman and Chief ExecutiveOfficer. Positron's leadership in developing new technologies has been acknowledgedby the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (I.E.E.E.) in 1978 and 1980 withtwo
"Best Product"
awards and by the City of Montreal with its
Award of Excellence
 in 1985. Positron also holds a
Canada Export Award 1987 - Honourable Mention,
andthe
1988 Canada Export Award.
Positron Fiber Systems, a Positron subsidiary, washonoured in May 1996 with the First
National Information Highway Award
forproduct development supporting the application and development of the InformationHighway.Several Positron divisions have been divested including Positron Fiber Systems (PFS)which was listed on NASDAQ and Positron Public Safety Systems, which pioneered anddeployed 9-1-1 systems across North America and internationally.Mr. Weiser was honoured as
Batisseur de la Revue Commerce
for entrepreneurshipby Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in December 1997 and was honoured as the
1999 Quebec Entrepreneur of the Year
recipient. Mr. Weiser was inducted as aFellow to the Royal Canadian Engineering Academy in June 2005.
 
Mr. Weiser served as a member of the Comité Consultatif de l'Industrie de laC.I.D.E.M. (Advisory Committee on Industry and Commerce for Montreal), director of the Canadian Telecommunications Action Committee (CTAC), director of CANARIE(Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education) from1994 to 1997, was co-chairman of the sub-committee formulating Montreal's positionon Free Trade, director of the Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA),Director of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) and the Councilof Governors of Montreal International.He still serves as a director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and variouscorporations.
Jake Eberts
A former Wall Street investor, the Montreal-born Eberts began his career in featuresin the early 1970s arranging financing. After relocating to London, England, where heeventually rose to managing director of Oppenheimer & Co., Ltd., he foundedGoldcrest Films, a successful independent production company involved with suchhigh profile films as Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning "Gandhi" (1982), BillForsyth's "Local Hero" (1983) and Roland Joffe's "The Killing Fields" (1984). Ebertsserved as president and CEO of Goldcrest until 1983 when he joined Embassy Pictures.In 1985, he founded Allied Filmmakers and the following year made his debut asexecutive producer with Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Name of the Rose" (1986).Among the other features this risk-taking maverick has produced or executiveproduced are John Boorman's Academy Award-nominated memoir of WWII London"Hope and Glory" (1987), the back-to-back Oscar winners "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989)and "Dances With Wolves" (1990), Robert Redford's "A River Runs Through It" (1992)and the delightful children's film "James and the Giant Peach" (1995).He returned to films with Native American themes as producer or executive producerof "The Education of Little Tree" (1997) and Attenborough's "Grey Owl" (lensed 1998).Eberts also served as an executive producer on the first feature from AardmanAnimation, "Chicken Run" (2000), co-directed by Peter Lord and three-time Oscar-winner Nick Park. In 2002, Eberts, became chairman of National Geographic FeatureFilms (NGFF) and executive produced such titles as the live action animal feature
TwoBrothers
by Jean-Jacques Annaud. He has also branched out into documentaries

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