Our Team

Nick is an accomplished Senior Financial Professional with an excellent track record of success with a  Canadian chartered bank and other financial service organizations.  

Using innovation and data science he has helped create billion-dollar portfolios. Throughout his career he has striven to achieve optimal effectiveness and efficiency in order to enhance stakeholder value.  Having worked in both Eastern and Western Canada, Nick has broad range of experience which includes; commercial and consumer lending, discount brokerage, real estate and agriculture.

In addition to a B.Com and  MBA, he has Diploma in Urban Land Economics and has completed course work for a Master of Economics degree. 

Karen Grant is seriously committed to the angel investing space. She has launched 4 angel groups, invested in a number of companies, and has served in various capacities on non-profit and privately held company boards.

Karen is entrepreneurial in spirit and deed. She has founded companies, launched investment funds and has worked in the commercialization field with FedNor, FedDev, Ontario Centres of Excellence and most of the Regional Innovation Centres and universities around Ontario.  Earlier in her career she led and grew the Toronto Venture Group, working with most of the venture capital firms in Canada and hundreds of companies that were seeking capital. Karen’s corporate experience includes 12 years with IBM Canada where she had various roles in sales, marketing and communications.

Karen is passionate about early-stage companies and when she is not coaching, cajoling or congratulating founders, she enjoys the outdoors, some creative pursuits, cooking and entertaining. She and her husband of 30+ years still enjoy each other’s company and travel together as often as possible.

Tom is a Strategic Advisor. Some of the critical company decisions and issues he has assisted with include:

Hiring and exiting C-Suite executives, Merging three companies, Divesting lines of business, Turning around a business losing customers, losing money, and with poor customer service, Determining decision-making among: the Board of Directors, the CEO and executives, Defining joint-venture objectives and shareholders agreements, Establishing the governance required for an IPO, Acquisition analysis and due diligence, Establishing a new organization structure and long-term evolution path, Turning around enterprise-wide change programs; and Determining the value proposition and business model for a large startup company.

Tom has advised a broad range of leaders, from the largest organizations in the world to startup founders.

Tom’s professional and volunteer affiliations include Angel One Investor Network: Member. Computer Aid Inc. (Private Company): Board director, gBeta Accelerator: Mentor. Institute of Corporate Directors: Member. Odette Cancer Centre: Patient Family Advisory Council, member. Rotman Business School: MBA student mentor University of Toronto, Entrepreneurship Hatchery: Mentor.

Tom has two purposes for his professional life; Helping business leaders have a positive impact on society, helping business leaders (current and emerging) succeed.

Peter Vukanovich is President and Owner of PMV Consulting Inc. Peter has 30+ years of leadership and governance experience in Canada and around the world. From 1997-2012, Peter served as the business leader for GE Capital Mortgage Insurance, which became Genworth Canada upon the initial public offering of Genworth Financial in May 2004. Since leaving his role as President of Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance Company Canada, Peter has served as Chief Commercial Officer for Canadian Title Loans Inc. (non-prime auto lending) and Chief Executive Officer and President of CFF Bank, now a subsidiary of Home Trust Company. Peter recently concluded his role as Teranet Inc.'s Senior Vice President Commercial Solutions where Peter successfully led the division's growth in revenues, product development and data capabilities. Peter is broadly focused, strategically minded, and technologically savvy with excellent board, government relations and communications skills. Currently Peter is Director of Real Matters Inc. (REAL:TSX) a publicly-traded appraisal management company and non-executive Chair of Euro Sun Mining Inc. (ESM:TSX). Peter served as a founding board member for Edgefront Realty Corp. (Now Nexus Real Estate Investment Trust (NXR.UN.TSX)). Previously, Peter advised many not-for-profit entities such as Habitat for Humanity Toronto and the University of Toronto Mississauga. Peter also was a long term board member and President of the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals (CAAMP). Peter is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto.