Based in Waterloo, home to Canada’s fastest-growing tech companies, he launches 20-30 innovative tech startups every year as Director of Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Born a farmer, he helped turn his family farm business into an advertising and events company—Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show—and one of the largest outdoor trade shows on the planet which sold to Glacier Media Group in 2011.
He has gone from growing crops, to now growing tech startups. He has a unique passion for helping founders grow disruptive tech startups through the farming practise of hard work, creativity, and pure grit.