C HAPTER 8: B UILDING A N A NGEL G ROUP
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Brad Ross is a private investor and the former President of Entrust Technologies Europe. To foster entrepreneurial activity in Kingston, Mr. Ross is leading efforts to establish a local network of angel investors and launching a business plan competition (www.firstcapitalchallenge.com). He serves as chairman of the board of trustees for the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, on the boards of the Student Technology Venture Challenge and Esponsive Communications Corporation, and on the R&D committee of Kingston General Hospital. After completing studies in Mathematics and Engineering at Queen’s University (B.Sc. ’80, M.Sc. ‘82), Mr. Ross worked at Bell-Northern Research in software development and R&D management. In 1988, Mr. Ross won a Nortel scholarship to study management science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.M. ‘90). With this foundation in technology, business and team leadership, Mr. Ross co-founded Entrust in 1993, Northern Telecom’s most successful intrapreneurial start-up, growing the business through to spin-out and eventual IPO.
This article had significant input from several angel investors who live across Canada: Ian Campbell, Joe Dales, Tony Farrow, and Mike Volker.
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