John Rose

GrowthWorks Capital Ltd. (GrowthWorks) is a venture capital firm founded in 1992 by David Levi. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, Columbia with additionaal offices in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Ontario.

Ardenton Capital Corp. (Ardenton Capital) is a private equity firm founded by James Livingstone in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Creation Technologies is an EMS provider that offers a range of services to OEMs, including design, manufacturing, supply chain, order fulfillment, and aftermarket solutions. Creation Technologies is based in Burnaby, Canada. The Canadian company has rapid prototyping capabilities that help OEMs bring their products to market faster. Creation Technologies is also reinventing the NPI process with Leap, a stage gate process that covers all aspects of the product lifecycle. The private company helps OEMs optimize their costs and increase their ROI.

Thomson Power, Inc. provides energy software and power management services. It offers services to electric and hybrid drives in medium to heavy-duty truck and bus applications. The company was founded by Ian McAvoy and David Oldridge and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Centra Construction Group Ltd. manufactures and installs windows and doors. It offers casement and awning, sliding, tilt and turn, bifold and entry doors and windows. The company was Founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Langley, Canada.

Creation Technologies LP engages in the manufacture of printed circuit boards and electronic components for original equipment manufacturers. It also offers product development and engineering, prototyping and NPI, proactive supply chain, lean manufacturing, fulfillment and logistics, and after-market services. The company was founded by Geoffrey Reed in 1991 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

D-Wave Systems, Inc. designs and develops quantum computer systems. The firm designs and produces quantum computing systems, customer support, site preparation, installation and other related services. The company was founded by Eric Ladizinsky and Geordie Rose in 1999 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

The Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council, founded in 1944, is based in Arlington, VA. The private company is a leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry. Thousands of volunteers representing over 350 member companies work together in more than 100 JEDEC committees and task groups to meet the needs of every segment of the industry, for manufacturers and consumers alike. The publications and standards generated by JEDEC committees are accepted throughout the world, and all JEDEC standards are available for download from the JEDEC website.

Microdermics, Inc. designs, builds, tests, and manufactures proprietary hollow metal microneedles that will eliminate the need for hypodermic needles for many therapeutics and traditional intramuscular vaccinations. It focuses on commercializing a novel hollow microneedle delivery platform targeting the multi-billion biopharmaceutical market. The company was founded by Sahan Ranamukharachchi, Iman Mansoor, Urs O. Häfeli, and Boris Stoeber in June 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

VanCity Capital Corp. engages in the provision of growth capital to small and medium-sized businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and co-operatives. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Dyaptive Systems produces the industrys most advanced and scalable wireless subscriber simulation and test systems for CDMA, UMTS, HSPA and LTE technologies. Dyaptive's DMTS systems use patented software defined radio (SDR) techniques to generate realistic traffic patterns, subscriber call model behavior and emerging data applications in order to test the capacity, performance and reliability of 3G and 4G networks. Modern 3G and 4G Mobile networks are both dynamic and adaptive in nature with network intelligence moving out of the core and into the edge of the access networks. The test challenge now is to simulate subscriber behavior at both the RF and IP interfaces to ensure quality and performance objectives have been met. That challenge has been successfully met by Dyaptive Systems with systems deployed by virtually all leading Radio Access Network (RAN) manufactures and many of the worlds leading mobile network operators.

3659992 Canada, Inc. provides desktop collaboration technology. The firm operates in area of oil and gas, architecture, engineering and construction, law firms and legal departments and government. The company was founded by Barry W. Jinks in April 2000 and is headquartered in Vancouver, BC.

Protexis, Inc. provides digital content distribution for online retailers. Its product RED system enables open, neutral and efficient network for online digital content distribution. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Soft Tracks Enterprises Ltd. provides software solutions. It provides software technology to the wireless communication and electronic payment industries. The company is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.

CuePath Innovation, Inc. develops wireless medication monitoring equipment which gives reminders, alerts, and notifications about the patient's medication. Its solutions enables families and care professionals to track and manage pills taken by elderly patients who consume multiple medications. The company was founded by Victor Lesau and Ivan Spogreev in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.