Maninder Dhaliwal

Maninder is the founding chair of TiE Vancouver Angels and the President of TiE Vancouver. She is the Managing Partner of Startup Studio - an accelerator and a venture fund focused on B2B software and deep tech R&D startups in cleantech, healthtech, and agtech.

Twitter: @dhaliwalmk

Reza Sanaie

Reza was the co-founder and CTO at Beanworks, an accounts payable (AP) automation company which was recently acquired for $106 million. His expertise includes SaaS, fintech, software security, e-payments, bioinformatics and others.

Faizal Mitha

Faizal is an angel investor with interest in fintech and healthtech. In his day job, he is the Chief Sales & Innovation Officer for one of the world’s largest Insurance Brokerages

Catherine Dahl

Catherine is the founder and CEO of Beanworks, an accounts payable (AP) automation company which was recently acquired for $106 million.

Mark Cunningham

Mark has more than 25 years experience in the software and technology industry. He has been a Founder, CEO and Executive of four high growth startups, all of which resulted in successful exits including Crystal Decisions, Indicee and Symmetrics. He is a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab.

Nitin Gandhi

Nitin Gandhi is an angel investor with focus on enterprise SaaS and consumer web. He is an experienced technology and software professional with several US patents.

Stephen Urquhart

Stephen is an angel investor with focus on life sciences. He has worked with several multinationals, start-ups and SME’s globally, facilitating acceleration from concepts to commercial success utilizing strong market access and government relations skills.

Maninder Dhaliwal

Maninder is the founding chair of TiE Vancouver Angels and the President of TiE Vancouver. She is the Managing Partner of Startup Studio - an accelerator and a venture fund focused on B2B software and deep tech R&D startups in cleantech, healthtech, and agtech.

Twitter: @dhaliwalmk

Sharad Khare

Sharad Kharé is an award winning storyteller and documentarian. He is the founder of Human Biography, a Vancouver-based content agency. Sharad has documented people like the Dalai Lama, Meryl Streep, Arianna Huffington, and many leaders and CEOs from all over the world. He is the Past President of TiE Vancouver.

Twitter: @kharecom

Mo Mostafaei

Mo is a Senior Manager with an accounting firm and leads their SR&ED team for Western Canada. Previously, he was an engineer at Nortel.

Monica Sharma

Monica is a lawyer with a practice in technology-based transactions, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions, business law, and e-commerce transactions. She is also a registered trademark agent and advises on licensing and commercialization of various forms of intellectual properties and technology.

Janette Lyons

Janette is a finance leader with 25 years of corporate management experience. She has served in senior financial roles, most recently as CFO Powerex - a wholly owned subsidiary of BC Hydro. Janette has a proven track record of success in developing the necessary financial, KPI and operational infrastructure needed to scale for rapid expansion and growth.

Bill Downie

Bill combines his creative mind with that of a strategic thinker to lead the creative process towards captivating, relevant, and effective sales and marketing. He has been an Art Director & Designer for 40 years with senior roles in orgs such as Publicis, DDB, Ogilvie, Cossette and others.