Governance
Executive Management

Brandon Mina
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Mina is the CEO of BrandPilot AI, formerly Xemoto Media Ltd., a performance marketing technology company headquartered in Toronto. He was the founder, president, and CEO of Pirate Creative Co., a boutique marketing agency. Over the past decade, Mr. Mina has crafted innovative global media and marketing strategies, leveraging data-driven decision-making to achieve remarkable results for brands and advertising agencies. Prior to joining BrandPilot AI, Mr. Mina led a consultancy firm where he implemented growth tactics across the healthcare, insurance, and entertainment industries. His professional experience also includes serving as Chief Marketing Officer of Motion 20, an award-winning video production company, and Kaizoku Co., a marketing services company, as well as holding various sales and marketing roles at Ontario Mutuals, Best Buy, and Boundless Marketing. Mr. Mina holds an Honour’s Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Multimedia from McMaster University.

Kyle Appleby
Chief Financial Officer and Executive VP of Finance
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.

John Beresford
Chief Revenue Officer
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.
Board of Directors

Adam Szweras
Executive Chairman
Adam Szweras, the Executive Chairman of Xemoto Media Ltd., is also the founder and chairman of Foundation Markets Inc., a Toronto merchant bank and exempt market dealer, and a member of the Securities law group of Toronto law firm, Fogler, Rubinoff LLP. Mr. Szweras was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1996 and has successfully led Foundation Markets Inc. since its establishment in 2006. His law and banking practices focus on financings and going public transactions, where Mr. Szweras represents several mid-market public companies and assists companies in listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSXV, and the CSE. He has also represented brokerage firms as legal counsel and has helped numerous clients with their mergers and acquisitions and cross border transactions.
Through Foundation Markets, Mr. Szweras has helped to raise funds for emerging companies. Mr. Szweras sits on the board of Aurora Cannabis and has sat the board of directors of numerous other companies including Harborside Inc., Water Ways Technologies and Quinsam Capital. Mr. Szweras obtained his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in June 1994 and previously attended York University.

Jeremy Goldman
Director
Mr. Goldman has dedicated over two decades to venture-stage technology and finance. Mr. Goldman's distinguished leadership journey encompasses roles such as CFO of Sensei Labs Inc., CEO at Vaster Inc., COO/CFO at Kooltra, Consultant at Shoplogix, and President/CCO at Foundation Markets Inc., and 20+ years in venture stage technology and finance. Mr. Goldman holds an MBA from York University’s Schulich School of Business and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Andres Tinajero
Director
Mr. Tinajero has over 20 years of business experience, having supported a broad range of industries, including mining, manufacturing and technology. During the same period, he has served as CFO and Vice President of Finance of several medium sized public companies across Canada. Mr. Tinajero holds a Bachelor of Business degree from San Francisco University and a Master of Business Administration from ITESM University. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants, the Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia, and a certified member of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Brian Presement
Director
Mr. Presement brings over 25 years of expertise in technology and telecommunications, specializing in recurring revenue models. He has held distinguished roles as the Founder, President, and CEO of Unite Communications Corp, the only telecommunications company listed on the Globe and Mail’s top 500 fastest growing Canadian companies, the visionary behind TextMeAnywhere, a proprietary web application that transforms a business landline, VoIP, or toll-free numbers into a textable numbers, and was a Co-Founder and Director at Plexus Cybermedia Inc., which has since integrated into Ext. Marketing Inc. Mr. Presement holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from York University.

Jillian Bannister
Director
A strategic business leader and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in financial services, Ms. Bannister brings expertise in business growth, channel marketing, and AI transformation. As former CEO of Ext. Marketing, a B2B financial services marketing agency, she led comprehensive marketing solutions for institutional clients. Previously, she served as Retail Channel Marketing Lead at Franklin Templeton Investments and VP of Marketing at a growth-stage fintech company. An advocate for women in business, Ms. Bannister actively supports Ernestine's Women's Shelter. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from Western University.

Randall Craig
Director
Mr. Craig brings over three decades of expertise in digital strategy, marketing, and technology to the table. Currently CEO of Pinetree Advisors Inc., and the Braintrust Professional Institute, both marketing strategy and digital technology consulting firms, and, a marketing strategy and digital technology consultant, Mr. Craig's previous leadership stints include being the CEO of 108 Ideaspace Inc., SVP at Sapiens Americas, CEO at Internet Marketing Associates Inc., and leadership roles at KPMG. Mr. Craig has achieved the following professional designations: CFA, FCMC, and CSP, and holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, as well as an honours degree in business administration from the Ivey Business School at Western University.