Brandon Mina is the CEO of Xemoto Media Ltd., a performance marketing technology company headquartered in Toronto. Mr. Mina is also Founder, President and CEO of Pirate Creative Co., a boutique marketing agency. Mr. Mina has spent the last decade crafting innovative global media and marketing strategies using his data-driven decision-making skills to drive remarkable results for brands and advertising agencies. Prior to joining Xemoto Media Ltd., Mr. Mina led a consultancy firm where he leveraged innovative growth tactics by executing strategies across healthcare, insurance and entertainment industries. His professional experience also includes: Chief Marketing Officer of Motion 20, an award-winning video production company, and Kaizoku Co., a marketing services company, and various sales and marketing positions at Ontario Mutuals, Best Buy and Boundless Marketing. Mr. Mina is currently enrolled in an MBA program at the University of London, and holds an honour’s Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and multimedia from the University of McMaster.

Mr. Appleby spent the first 10 years of his career working in public accounting where he worked in both audit and advisory practices and dealt primarily with private companies and investment funds. In 2007, Mr. Appleby left the world of public accounting to focus on providing management, accounting and financial services to public companies across a variety of industries including cannabis, agriculture, technology, mining, crypto-currency and others. Mr. Appleby is the Founder and CFO Advantage Inc., a company that provides chief financial officer, and other financial accounting, reporting and compliance services to companies in various industries. Accordingly, Mr. Appleby has been the CFO for numerous companies listed in Canada, US and London, and has extensive experience in financial reporting, providing strategic direction and leadership, IPOs, fund raising, and corporate governance. He holds a Bachelor of Economics and is a member in good standing of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

Ms. Garro-Peeters has over a decade of experience in technology and marketing, managing client and partner relationships. Ms. Garro-Peeters has worked globally at start-ups in both the Netherlands and Sweden and has spent the last decade building customer success teams in companies of various sizes. Her experience includes Director of Customer Success at a publicly traded company, Enghouse Systems Ltd., as well as Head of Customer Success at Cammio Technologies Inc. Ms. Garro-Peeters has a degree in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario.

Mr. Beresford was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Socialpeeks, an influencer marketing analytics technology company founded in 2014.

For over 20 years Mr. Beresford has been dedicated to building successful Canadian technology companies. Mr. Beresford has experience working with public companies as the Vice President of Global Sales at Inpixon (NASDAQ), where he secured deals with numerous Fortune 1000 companies, and during his 10 years of leading sales and marketing teams at BlackBerry (NYSE).

An Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Wilfrid Laurier University for over 10 years, Mr. Beresford is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at several Canadian start-up incubators. In 2015, Mr. Beresford Co-founded The Revenue U, an education company delivering marketing validation and sales training to hundreds of technology companies. Mr. Beresford has an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.Sc. from Memorial University of Newfoundland.