Our Venture Services Group is looking to add an Executive-in-Residence (EiR) with expertise in mobile, wireless and/or digital media.

What an Executive-in-Residence does

EiRs work one-on-one with early-stage and emerging tech companies in Waterloo Region, offering them the benefit of hard-earned business savvy and connecting them (through our Venture Services Group) to the many operational and technological resources they need to succeed.

This is an opportunity to help passionate entrepreneurs bring their big ideas to fruition (and stop them from making your mistakes), refresh your own networks, and add to the region’s business ecosystem.

Please visit our Venture Services page for more information.

This is a part-time part or full-time position.

About you

You should have CEO-level experience leading a sizable tech company or have founded at least one significant venture. Most of our EiRs have held senior industry roles or have several past ventures on their C.V.. Extensive experience raising capital, P&L responsibility, corporate leadership, etc are nice-to-haves.

The current team consists of Chris Howlett, Dan Mathers, David Strucke, Mark McArdle and Amol Karnick.

If you fit the bill or know someone who does, please contact Dan Mathers.

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Waterloo Region has a lot of tech — and we can prove it.

Our freshly minted Tech Directory catalogues over 700 organizations across the area’s flourishing eco-system.

This online version of our directory allows you to zoom in and out for reading and/or skimming, and to skip to the sections you’re interested in. Most hyperlinks, (for example those in the company taxonomies) are clickable.

Not ‘just’ Tech

The Tech Directory lists contact information for a number of industries and sectors. The full list includes:

• Academia
• Associations
• Consultants


Inside: Communitech EiR Dan Mathers talks about startup funding

• Finance
• Government
• Insurance
• IT Services
• Legal
• Media
• Real Estate
• Services and Suppliers
• Talent Resources
• Venture Capital and Private Equity

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Already well-known as Canada’s fastest-growing tech cluster, Waterloo Region is developing critical mass as a digital media cluster as well.

Worldwide, the digital media sector is one of the fastest-growing segments of the knowledge economy. PWC estimates the global market will reach US $2.2 trillion within the next five years.

Waterloo Region is taking advantage of this global opportunity at a regional, provincial, and national level. Part of the strategy has been to build a Digital Media and Mobile Accelerator in the heart of the Region – The Communitech Hub – a 30,000 square foot facility to facilitate collaboration on digital media tools and applications. Read the rest of this entry »

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A building that was once largest tannery in the British Commonwealth is one step closer to accommodating the largest cluster of digital media expertise in the country.

The Communitech Hub: Digital Media and Mobile Accelerator has signed a lease and construction is well underway, with occupancy expected summer 2010.

“We’re looking forward to helping Canada create more multi-national companies that are banner success stories, which is what this is all about,” said Iain Klugman, President and CEO of Communitech. “

In addition to support from the City of Kitchener, the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada, Kevin Tuer, VP Digital Media and CDMN’s Managing Director, noted that private sector support from regional heavyweights like RIM, Open Text Corporation, Christie, Desire2Learn and Agfa HealthCare has been instrumental.

With their expertise and equipment, young companies will have a chance to flourish.

What You Can Expect at The Hub

• 30,000 square foot open innovation hub bringing together knowledge, activities, tools and expertise;
• 5,700 square feet dedicated to enabling entrepreneurs to ‘incubate’ ideas in close proximity to tools and services they need to succeed;
• 3,000 square feet allocated to partner lab space with platforms and tools provided by established partner companies including RIM, Open Text, Agfa HealthCare, and Christie Digital Systems;
• A versatile immersive environment with reconfigurable projection and display systems;
• Executive Briefing Centre and full video-conferencing capability;
• A suite of expert resources including entrepreneurs-in-residence, project manager support, marketing and branding expertise.

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Artist's Rendering of the HUB

With the news that Digital Media and Mobile Accelerator Centre (aka The HUB) has signed its lease (PDF) at the Tannery building in downtown Kitchener, I thought it high time to create a list of the region’s digitally-oriented companies.

This is not a complete list. It is perhaps not even a good list. But you can improve it and add to it as you please.

Please do.

(Most of the companies either have or are closely tied to a mobile product (apps, games, etc). You can add service/prof. services companies to the list if they meet that criteria)

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