mentors

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Areas of Expertise:

Boards, Fundraising & Advisory

With more than twenty years of experience in the global high technology industry, Ian has worn several hats, some of which include: Venture Partner with The Entrepreneur’s Fund IV, in San Mateo, CA, Managing Director with Jefferson Partners, a Venture Capital firm, co-founder of Jefferson Fund IV (2001-2009) and interim CEO at Avotus Corporation (Enterprise Expense Management) and Borderware (Messaging Security), Jefferson Fund IV portfolio companies.

In January 2000, Ian became the President and Chief Operating Officer of The docSpace Company which was sold to Critical Path (NASDAQ:CPTH) for $568M USD. During his tenure in Mountain View, Netscape’s sales grew from $40 million to over $500 million annually. Ian also played a key role in the integration of Netscape into America Online, Inc. with the resulting SUN-Netscape Alliance following the acquisition of Netscape by American Online Inc. Ian began his career at NCR Corporation in sales and sales management roles.

Areas of Expertise:  

Strategy, Governance. Public Safety

George Heinrichs is the CEO of ANDE and the former president and cofounder of Intrado Inc. (acquired by West Corp. for $465M USD), a global provider of public safety communications services. A recognized expert in emergency services, Mr. Heinrichs has played a key role in the evolution of the nation’s emergency communications network for more than 30 years. His company is proudly dedicated to supporting the men and women of public safety in their quest to save lives.

Mr. Heinrichs’ background includes service in both Law Enforcement and Emergency Medical Services as a field responder. After serving 10 years as a law enforcement officer, Mr. Heinrichs left the department at the rank of Lieutenant. During his public safety tenure he trained in many areas including the FBI’s Hostage Negotiation and Tactics program, White Collar Crime Investigation and other specialized programs as well as achieving State of Colorado Certification as a Peace Officer and as an Instructor for law enforcement certification. He also served for seven years as the Chairman of the Colorado Crime Information Center Working Committee establishing policy and process for comprehensive public safety automation in pursuit of wanted criminals and stolen property. Mr. Heinrichs was elected as a representative to the FBI’s NCIC Advisory Policy Board – Western Region.

For his contributions to public safety and communications, Mr. Heinrichs has received numerous awards, including the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) William H. Stanton National 9-1-1 Service Award, the NENA President’s Award, the Denver Telecom Professionals Executive of the Year, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Technology, and was recognized as the 2009 Person of the Year by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). In 2011 Mr. Heinrichs received the NG9-1-1 Institute’s Industry Professional Award.

Mr. Heinrichs is a member of the National Emergency Number Association, the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International, the National Sheriffs’ Association and the Association of Computing Machinery. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. In 2007, he helped to found the 9-1-1 Industry Alliance, serving as its chairman until 2009.

Mr. Heinrichs is a Fellow in the Radio Club of America and serves on the Board of the IACP Foundation. He continues to be an active and vigorous participant in the formation of 9-1-1 public policy and has served as an expert witness for both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.

Areas of Expertise:

Startup Fundraising & Finance

Brice Scheschuk, CPA, CA is the Managing Partner of Globalive Capital. He was a co-founder and CFO of WIND Mobile (acquired by Shaw Communications for $1.6B CAD) as well as CEO of Globalive Communications. Brice has over twenty-five years’ experience building and operating companies at Globalive, WIND Mobile, Leitch Technology and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He obtained his CPA, CA designation at PricewaterhouseCoopers and B.Comm (Hon.) Finance from Dalhousie University. Brice served as a Maritime Surface Officer in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve.

Current and past board and advisory positions include Cranson Capital, Creative Destruction Labs – Atlantic, Espresso Capital, Findev (CVE:FDI), Flexiti Financial, Founder Institute, Globalive Communications, iLOOKABOUT (CVE:ILA), Level Jump Financial Group, Loran Scholars Foundation, OutsideIQ, Partsroom, Plaza Land Fund, Plaza Ventures, PitchPoint Solutions, Pragmatic Solutions, Ryerson Futures, Samba Days/Rewards, SceneDoc (NASDAQ: TYL), Shamba Foundation, Techstars Toronto, Varicent Software, Web Host Industry Review, White Crane Capital, WIND Mobile, World of Angus and Zoocasa. Brice is a frequent speaker on scale-up entrepreneurship and innovation.