Meet Our Mentors

Grant Lawrence

President, Valhalla Angels, Kelowna; Start-up Consultant; Co-President, Valhalla Angels Vancouver

Myles McGovern

Valhalla Angel; President & CEO, Vorsana Environmental; Former Founder & CEO Immersive Ventures

Clemens Kaiser

Valhalla Angel; Former President, Management Board, Sanofi Aventis; Country Chair, Germany

Rose Bhojani

Valhalla Angel; Business Consultant; Former Technology Sector Specialist/Senior Manager, BDC

Warren MacPhee

Valhalla Angel; Owner, Tutu & Lulu Fashions; Co-Founder, Restaurants for Sale Global; Former IT Consultant, CCS Corporation

Alex Miller

Valhalla Angel; CEO, Visland Media

Alexandra Nuth

Valhalla Angel; Co-Founder, Now or Never Ventures

Garland Sharratt

Information Security Consultant; Former Security Architect, Hootsuite

Kyle Wiltshire

Valhalla Angel; CEO, Takehan Technologies; Former President KPI Investments; Former CTO/Partner, ZipMatch

Henry King

Valhalla Angel; Owner, Superior Peat; Former Chairman, Garden Centre Group Co-op; Former Chairman, Art Knapp’s Plantland franchise; Former Owner/Operator, Art Knapp’s Plantland

Fritz Kipfer

Valhalla Angel; Former CEO Schubert North America; Former President Schubert Packaging Automation

Abhinav Kanti

Valhalla Angel; Director Total Interiors; Former Director Faith Biotech Pvt. Ltd.; Former Partner i2M Technologies

Adrien Niblock

Valhalla Angel, Co-founder Stealth Insurtech

Andrew McGovern

Valhalla Angel, Executive Vice President Vorsana Inc.

Brandon Farr

Valhalla Angel, Founder, Level Up Strategies Inc.

Michael Macaulay

Partner, Lawson Lundell LLP; Board Member, Accelerate Okanagan

Gary Parmar

Partner, MNP LLP; Board Member, Accelerate Okanagan

David Saltman

Advisory Board Member, Pela; Chairman, Inca Hemp; Chairman, Okanagan Sustainability Leadership Council

Saskia Battersby

Product Management Mentor & Coach; Former Director, Product Management, Visier Inc.

David Jenkins

Board Member, Okanagan Sustainability Leadership Council; Former Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Management, UBC Okanagan

Sherri Faloon

Operations and Customer Service Consultant, HJF Capital Corp.; Former Manager, Business & Development Support, IBM; Former Director, Real Estate & Logistics and Global Customer Support, Cognos Inc.

Anne-Marie Visockas

Former Vice-President, Health System Planning, Mental Health & Substance Use, and Residential Services, Interior Health Authority

Wayne Senner

Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care, Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery; Clinical Instructor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC/Kelowna General Hospital

Paul Matthews, P.Eng.

Partner, Lawson Lundell LLP

Hugh Faloon

Retired Partner, GGFL LLP Chartered Professional Accountants

Liza Wood

Director, Research & Data Science, Two Hat Security

Bruno Peters

Deputy Regional Director, Canada West, IBI Group

Kara James, CA, CPA

Former Director of Finance Transformation and Former CFO, Western Canada – Sysco Canada Inc.

Derek Gratz

Associate Director, University-Industry Liaison Office, UBC Okanagan

Camille Saltman

Managing Director, entrepreneurship,@UBCO; Former President, Malama Composites; MD Revolution

Jared Cook

Manager, MNP

Mitchell Grant

Manager, Assurance Services – MNP

Courtney Hesse

Regional Vice President, RBC

Corie Griffiths

Director, Economic Development and Bylaw Services, Regional District of Central Okanagan

Kevin Greenwood

Industrial Technology Advisor, National Research Council of Canada, IRAP-PARI

Jennifer Tedman-Jones

Director, Business, Development, Mitacs

Sarah Sutherland, CPHR

Program Manager, entrepreneurship@UBCO; Former Regional Human Capital Advisor, MNP LLP; Former Human Resources Manager, Two Hat Security

Karen Graham

Regional Marketing Manager, MNP LLP; Former District Manager, ADP

Lauren Andrews, PFP

Branch Manager, Financial Advisor, RBC on Campus, UBC Okanagan & Okanagan College