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Natasha spent the last year growing Wealthsimple Cash via incentives, referrals and on the ground marketing. She’s now applying product growth strategies to Wealthsimple’s suite of products. Prior to Wealthsimple, her focus was on paid social & performance creative, specializing in UGC and native creative for FinTech and e-commerce brands.

Raven is the Head of Media & Digital Marketing at Tim Hortons where she is responsible for crafting Tims’ forward thinking vision for marketing transformation. With a background in consulting, media, marketing & technology, Raven applies a common sense framework for approaching the frenetic world of media innovation, customer experience & mar-tech. Her professional approach is to remove the natural hesitancy surrounding emerging technology by blending her passion for brand strategy with a deliberate focus on unlocking data science & automation to transform companies into market leaders.

Sara-Beth is responsible for growth, marketing, data, and analytics at Sago Mini - a founding studio within Spin Master Digital Games. She previously led teams at Hubba, the Toronto Star, PC Financial, and BMO Financial Group and has spent the last 6 years focused on subscription services.

Jeet Niyogi is the former VP Marketing at Playtika Canada. He has a passion for bringing creative ideas to acquire new users, retain them, and effectively grow businesses at gaming and technology companies. Under his innovative leadership, the World Series of Poker free-to-play mobile app saw significant growth in its users and revenues. His relentless focus on measurable marketing has led to sizable growth in his previous roles at EA, Autodesk, and Oracle. He is a regular speaker at GDC, Casual Connect, MGS, MAU and other events. He holds a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering, and an MBA from McGill University. He likes to read about evolving business strategies, watch documentaries, and spend time with his two daughters.

Spearheading Gameloft's monetization teams in Toronto, working with high-profile IPs including Disney, LEGO, Sony, Mattel, and more. Led comprehensive marketing efforts for start-up games publishers when the freemium model was still unproven in the west.

Simon is leading growth at Wealthsimple. Before that, he was the head of user acquisition at Hopper & Busbud.

Kevin Lawson is a Canadian innovator developing brands and experiences in music, gaming, blockchain and XR.

Lawson’s journey began in the music industry building events and music festivals across Ontario Canada. In 2018 Kevin began expanding his experience to the esports, gaming and blockchain industries organizing B2B conferences with The Tech Society. These new interests sparked an exploration into the intersection of entertainment and extended reality.

Lawson's current focus is his charity-driven blockchain entertainment company Purple Penguin founded with his partner Chantal Plourde. Purple Penguin’s mission is to revolutionize fundraising and tell the story of climate change through blockchain games and entertainment.

Oscar Henderson, Director of Growth for Train Fitness - I new Fitness Application that utilizes ai to track & log strength training workouts. After starting off on the B2b Saas side, Oscar has since moved over to fitness tech with the help of growing user-acquisition. Oscar specializes in Growth Hacking, covering SEO, ASO, ABM, paid-social, organic & influencer marketing tactics.

Thomas is an authority source on SaaS, content, and e-commerce, and in fact established the very category of M&A advisory for online businesses.
He began building and selling online companies in his early 20s as an interest. When he proved to have a natural talent for increasing the value of these businesses, this became his full-time career.
Over the last 12 years since its inception, Thomas has grown FE International into an award-winning global M&A advisor of SaaS, e-commerce, and content businesses, completing acquisitions for thousands of founders, owners, and acquirers and advising on over $1B in lifetime acquisitions.