Brand strategist. Writer. Designer. Creative Director. Talker. Has guided small upstarts and SMEs to 500 companies. Has been a brand guru for politicians, professional athletes as well company leaders. Appeared on CBC, CITY-TV, interviewed by Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, lent an opinion or two to National Post, Marketing Magazine. Frequent speaker on brands and creativity.

Rogayeh is an economist with focus on behavioral economics, game theory, and social and economic networks. She holds a Ph.D in Economics from Simon Fraser University (SFU), a MSc in experimental particle physics from SFU working on the ATLAS Detector at CERN. She also spent time at the Economics Department at Stanford University.

Rogayeh is an accomplished scientist with a decade of experience in start-ups, public, and private sector. Her past roles include Director of Data Science at Synereo, a Blockchain based start up, a senior associate with BeThink, and now the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at Theory and Practice.

Daniel has over 20 years of experience leading high-profile and complex real estate development and investment projects in municipalities and provinces across Canada. Prior to Forest Gate Daniel Marinovic was the Chief Development Officer with Dream Unlimited (TSX: DRM) a leading Canadian developer and asset manager with $8 billion of assets under management.

Karl Czarnecki has over 20 years of finance, international investment banking and private equity experience. He has been working with entrepreneurs in several countries assisting with raising capital (debt and equity), M&A transactions, capital allocation decisions and tax optimization solutions (including transfer pricing work with international software companies). 

In recent years Karl has been focused on the renewable energy space. As a Chief Financial Officer of Sculler Group, Karl provides financial leadership to several solar energy funds based in Toronto, Canada.

Prior to joining Sculler Group Karl held senior finance positions with Redknee Solutions and IPOPEMA Securities in Canada and Europe.

Karl graduated from the B. Comm. programme at the University of Toronto and obtained the Chartered Accountant designation (CPA, CA) with the financial institutions practice of KPMG.

Nathan Chan was most recently a partner with leading corporate and commercial boutique law firm before beginning his own professional practice. Prior to that, he practised at one of the largest law firms in Canada. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) in 1993 and an LL.B in 1996, and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1998.

Nathan is involved in all aspects of the business of his many high technology clients (renewable energy, managed services, software development, VARS, etc.), including the setup of corporate, fund and other structures, joint ventures, equity and debt financings and negotiation of commercial contracts. He co-ordinates and supervises both domestic and international legal transactions for his portfolio of international clients with worldwide offices.

Nathan is a member in good standing with the Law Society of Upper Canada.