As Vice President of Venture Development at Invest Ottawa, Nick leads all programming and support for start-up, early stage and scaling companies alike, while supporting Ottawa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem as a whole. This work includes the launch of Invest Ottawa's Pre-Accelerator program, The IO Accelerator, the IO Scale Up Program, and IO Peer Groups.

 

Previously at CellWand, Nick was co-founder and CEO, where he drove all development, strategy and execution, in pioneering the use of abbreviated dialing codes in North America with the award winning #TAXI (Pound Taxi) service and subsequently in the mobile transportation space, with The Ride app. Highlights included raising several million in capital, closing industry first deals with every major wireless carrier in North America and architecting a marketing strategy that made #TAXI a national brand used over 18 million times (and counting), while propelling CellWand to profitability and millions in revenue.