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Past Attendees & Contributors

Building on the history of Canadian Dream Summit and World Angel Investment Summit – NACO brings together leading voices, global investors and champions committed to transforming Canada into the world’s leading innovation economy.

**Stephany Lapierre**
Founder & CEO
TealBook

**Mike Wessinger**
Co-founder & Executive Chair
PointClickCare

**Michelle Zatlyn**
Co-founder, President & COO
Cloudflare

**Jennifer Jackson**
Senior Vice President, Merchandising at Walmart
Fmr. President, Capital One Canada

**Navdeep Bains**
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Rogers Communications

**Kim Furlong**
CEO
Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA)

**Clare O’Hara** | Reporter at The Globe and Mail
Som Seif | Founder & CEO, Purpose Investments
**Tanya Baker** | Managing Director, Office of Applied Innovation, Goldman Sachs
**Debbie Gamble** | Group Head, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Interac Corporation
**Abdullah Snobar** | Executive Director, The DMZ | CEO, DMZ Ventures and Zones Startups

**Claudio Rojas** | CEO, National Angel Capital Organization
John Ruffolo | Founder & Managing Partner at Maverix Private Equity
**Jon Erlichman** | Anchor, BNN Bloomberg
**Laura McGee** | Founder & CEO, Diversio
**Jodi Kovitz** | CEO, Human Resources Professionals Association
**Caitlin MacGregor** | Co-founder & CEO, Plum
**Michelle Scarborough** | Managing Partner, Thrive Venture Fund at BDC Capital

**Eva Lau** | Founding Partner, Two Small Fish
**Allen Lau** | CEO and Co-founder, Wattpad

**Amanda Lang** | Anchor, BNN Bloomberg
**Jodie Wallis** | Global Chief Analytics Officer, Manulife

**Solon Angel**
Founder, Mindbridge AI
Angel investor

**Keshia Chanté**
Singer-Songwriter
ET Canada | Host
Khair | Founder

**Alison Nankivell**
CEO, MaRS Discovery District

**Joseph Clark**
President, Toronto Global Forum

**Dan Burgar**
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Collective

**Charles Planet** | Founder, Narwal Project
Yung Wu | Fmr. CEO, MaRS
Daniel Daviau | President & CEO, Daniel Daviau, Canaccord Genuity Group
**Claudio Rojas** | CEO, NACO

**Jocelyn Mangan**
CEO & Founder, Him for Her

John Knubley
Fellow, Brookfield Institute
Former Deputy Minister
Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Government of Canada

BUILDING CANADA’S HIGH GROWTH ECONOMY

OTTAWA | APRIL 29-30 | 2025

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National Angel Capital Organization → NACO members have invested $1.66 billion into more than 2,000 Canadian companies. Incorporated in 2002, NACO is Canada’s professional association for 4,000 angel investors and the national umbrella for 100+ organizations including angel groups, incubators and accelerators, and early-stage venture funds. 

Angel investors are individuals and pre-institutional funds that put their capital at risk in the early-stage ecosystem. This includes individual Limited Partners (LPs) that invest passively or semi-actively in venture capital funds; family offices and funds that invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies, and individuals that invest directly into early-stage companies on their own or with the support of an angel collective.

Angel-backed companies that went on to achieve successful outcomes include Slack and Thinkific in BC; Verafin in Newfoundland and Labrador; WealthSimple and ApplyBoard in Ontario; Paper in Quebec; and Jobber and Neo Financial in Alberta. Angel investment fuels the pipeline of companies that grow to raise venture capital and scale into the global success stories of the future.