Board Member
Randall Howard
Founding General Partner at VERDEXUS, a super angel boutique that invests in, and actively grows, a growing portfolio of leading tech companies.
Founding General Partner at VERDEXUS, a super angel boutique that invests in, and actively grows, a growing portfolio of leading tech companies.
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Experience
Founder
Employee
Board Member
Projects
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Having co-founded Waterloo regions tech CEO roundtable, the Atlas Group, led me to be a co-founder of one of the leading tech ecosystem platforms in the world, Communitech
Kick starting one of Canada's major angel groups.
Co-founder, Board Member, Chair Selection · To address the huge seed funding gap, was part of a founding group to accelerate angel investing. A key… · More role was to lead the Selection Committee, which determined companies to appear before the group, for 4.5 years. GTAN is now one of Canada's leading angel groups, with over 80 investments and, owing to it's institutional style of diligence and oversight, high returns. Major exits are starting
Education
About
Achievements
- Built a public company from scratch (MKS), which was sold for US$304M
- Ecosystem builder - Atlas Group (Tech CEOs), Communitech (co-founder), GTAN (co-founder) angel group
- Through activist model, have built a portfolio at VERDEXUS with average 10x invested value, highest multiple 25x, and still growing
- Co-led two tech turnaround/recaps which are now thriving
- In the arts, co-founded Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators
- Building a carbon neutral home
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
"The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers" by Ben Horowitz
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Exactly what I'm doing now - building and financing amazing global companies and social enterprises.