Board of Directors

Brad Feld is a partner and co-founder of Foundry. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 35 years, since founding his first company, Feld Technologies, in college. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and, with his wife Amy Batchelor, runs the Anchor Point Foundation.

Brad has written several books on entrepreneurship and venture capital and started blogging in 2004 before VC Twitter existed.
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner who enjoys wandering around alone in the mountains for hours at a time.

Paul Hollands is also the Chairman of the Board of privately held A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. A graduate of the Sauder School of Business, Paul joined A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. in 1981, became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 1995 and Chief Executive Officer in 2005. In February 2018, Paul retired as CEO and currently holds the position of Chairman. Paul is a recipient of the first class of Canada’s national Top 40 Under 40 Leadership Award. He was recognized as B.C. CEO of the Year for 2015. He is a past Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C. and served on the Board for over 10 years. He has been an active leader with St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation for over a decade, first as a Board Member, Chair of the Board, Governor and now as a Director of the Board and Chair of the Campaign Executive for the new St. Paul’s Hospital project. He served on the Board of the Canadian Restaurant Association for 10 years as a Director and as Chair of the Board.

Brendan King is the innovative force behind Vendasta. Responsible for providing the vision, thought leadership, and business strategy, it is Brendan’s ability to focus on the big picture while maintaining quality on the finest details that drives Vendasta’s success. Prior to starting the company, Brendan has many business ventures, including a computer chain which was nationally franchised and was entrepreneurial force behind Point2 Agent, a real estate software company, where he grew its membership to more than 185,000 agents and brokers in 85 countries. He was named one of the Top 50 Saas CEOs by the Software Report in 2019. Brendan and Vendasta are almost synonymous. Both are governed by four core values: Drive, innovation, respect and agility. Brendan is extremely passionate about upholding these values while helping Vendasta on its path of becoming the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses.

Amy Rae is a principal at Vanedge Capital. She is the former vice president and general manager of mobile and social commerce with Ziplocal (USA), where she was responsible for the development of their local search apps and new digital product rollout. Prior to that, she held the position of director of business development at Canpages after they acquired Ziplocal Canada. In this capacity at both companies, she leveraged her deal-making and relationship-building skills to attract and broker new partnerships to enhance their online local search businesses.

Amy’s previous venture capital experience was as an associate with JLA Venture Partners (co-managing partner of the Blackberry Partners Fund), where she provided due diligence and investment candidate screening that eventually led to the financing deal that saw the formation of ZipLocal in August 2006. Prior to joining JLA, she was an analyst with Latitude Partners, a private equity and strategic advisory firm focused on the technology sector. Amy holds a BComm with a finance specialization.

Robert Simon joined BDC Capital in 2011 as senior managing partner in the IT Venture Fund. He is responsible for overseeing the IT Venture Fund investments and maximizing value creation across the portfolio.

Robert brings over 25 years of experience as a successful serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the field of information technology. He began his career as co-founder of T/Maker Graphics, a developer of Macintosh and IBM PC graphics and desktop publishing products. After founding and co-funding other high-tech businesses, in 1997, he moved into venture capital as a partner with Sierra Ventures, where he identified, sourced and evaluated business opportunities in the internet e-commerce and enterprise software sectors. During this time, he also founded DotBank, a direct competitor to PayPal, where he negotiated partnerships and its sale to Yahoo. In 2000, Robert became a general partner with Alta Partners, with an investment focus in Internet infrastructure, enterprise software, network security and wireless. More recently, he has been the managing director/venture partner with Saints Dakota/Saints Capital, a portfolio of companies purchased from Safeguard Scientifics. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Hai Tran-Viet is passionate about working with entrepreneurs and has a track-record as an active partner with portfolio companies. He has nearly 20 years’ experience in private equity and investment banking, and is primarily focused on leading the CBGF investment team’s activities in transaction origination, execution, and portfolio management. In addition, he assists the CEO in the management of the Fund.

Prior to CBGF, Hai worked at Regimen Equity Partners, Signal Hill Equity Partners, and TD Capital (TD Bank’s merchant banking group). Hai graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School and received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in France.

Throughout her 25 year career, Lisa Reeves has championed emerging trends and technologies, market disruption, entrepreneurial ecosystems, diversity, and global opportunities. She is the Chief Product Officer at TriNet, which provides HR solutions delivered through configurable products on a service and technology platform. Before TriNet, Lisa led Product at Zenefits, Corporate Strategy at Workday, was Co-founder and CEO of Gridcraft and joined WDAY after it acquired Gridcraft. She was also GM for the GoToMyPC line of business at Citrix, which she joined from Vista Ventures. Before Vista, she spent 14 years at SAP, nine years in operational and five years on venture capital.

Lisa enjoys spending time with her family, supporting the Colorado innovation ecosystem, entertaining, and running outside of work. She is a 10-time Chicago Marathon finisher and a six-time Boston Marathon finisher.

 

 

Chris was most recently co-founder and CTO of WealthBar, one of Canada’s first robo-advisors, acquired by CI Financial. He is now the CTO for Nicola Wealth and advises their newly launched VC fund. Chris holds a B.Sc(Eng) and and M.Sc in Applied Math from Queen’s University.

V. Paul Lee is the Managing Partner of Vanedge Capital. As the former President of Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA), the global leader in interactive software, he was responsible for its Worldwide Studios group. Lee has been an active and successful investor for over 20 years, starting with DSI’s sale to EA in 1991.

In 1996 Lee was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of British Columbia (UBC). Lee was awarded the British Columbia Technology Industries Association Person of the Year Award in 2002. Lee has also received numerous awards for his community service including the Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for significant contribution in the form of public service in 2003. In 2005 he was recognized as an Honorary Fellow of the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. Lee has served as Chair of the British Columbia Technology Industries Association from 1998 to 2001. Lee currently serves as a member of the Premier’s Technology Council and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Sauder School of Business at UBC. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of DigiBC and is one of Canada’s representatives to Asia Pacific Economic Council’s Business Advisory Council.

Lee previously invested in A.L.I. Technologies, Blast Radius, ActiveState, Bycast, and remains active as an angel investor and Director in Pacific Bio-Energy, the leading manufacturer of wood pellet biomass fuel; and D-Wave Systems, developer of the first commercial quantum computer of which he is also Chair.