C HAPTER 9: B UILDING A N ATIONAL A NGEL O RGANIZATION
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Henry Vehovec was the founder of the Angel Investor Summit and network that ultimately created the National Angel Organization (NAO) of which he is the first Executive Director. Along with a career in technology, sales and management, Mr. Vehovec himself has invested in several early stage companies in life sciences, telecommunications and software services. Through Mindfirst Inc., Mr. Vehovec currently provides strategic consulting, financial advisory and technology outsourcing services to growing businesses and projects. Mr. Vehovec chairs the CHIN UP Fund (www.chinup.org) for nerve research at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and is currently a member of the investment committee of the Foundation for Sustainable Innovation (www.sdtc.ca). In 1996, he completed the Owner/President Management (OPM) Program at the Harvard Business School, holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, a P.Eng designation, and BASc from the University of Toronto.
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