Operating Partners

Roy Graydon – Roy is an experienced executive who can operate seamlessly in both public and private markets, operations and finance and who specializes in turn-arounds, strategy & direction, leadership & motivation, oversight & planning, and acquisitions & divestitures. Over the past 20 years, he has been CEO, President, CFO, and board member of several publicly traded companies, an institutional investor, and trusted M&A advisor.  Roy is currently on the board of Bermuda Telecom, where he and his partners acquired a majority stake.  Roy was previously President and CFO of Fibernetics Corporation, a Canadian CLEC and ISP, as well as President and CEO of Aeroquest International, where he led the transformation from a one-product, $8M /year business to a global business generating over $50M /year in revenue providing a diversified suite of products and services and operating on every continent in the world. While EVP & CFO of Call-Net/Sprint Canada, Roy drove the successful re-engineering of the company’s balance sheet and its re-engagement with the investment community. Using a combination of asset securitization, equity issue and the re-purchase of publicly-traded debt at a discount, the business was successfully recapitalized and ultimately sold. Prior to that, Roy was at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where he founded their Relationship Investing activities.Roy has extensive experience as a board member of both public and private companies, including Cabo Drilling Corp. Aeroquest International Limited, Patheon Inc., Call-Net Enterprises Inc., Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd., International Comfort Products Corporation, and Cybersurf Corp.Roy has an MBA (Richard Ivey School of Business) and a B.Sc. in Geophysics (University of Western Ontario). His community interests focus around education, especially in science and technology. Roy served for six years on the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre, three of those as its Vice Chair.

Marc Holtenhoff – Mr. Holtenhoff has over 20 years of leadership experience at growth oriented technology companies, 15 of which were in CEO role. Mr. Holtenhoff is currently CEO of Aimetis Corp, a Waterloo-based software company backed by Covington Capital, Sprott Asset Management, and Venturelink Funds.Prior to Aimetis, Mr. Holtenhoff was the CEO of California based 1GlobalPlace, Inc., a technology company backed by Reuters €450 million Venture Capital Fund. Mr. Holtenhoff led the company from inception to its successful acquisition by VeriSign, a $6 billion technology security and communications company in the United States.Previously, Mr. Holtenhoff held a variety of enterprise sales and marketing management positions at the Xerox Corporation.Mr. Holtenhoff holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Calven Iwata – For the past 30 years Calven has built a reputation as an effective details-focused financial and operations executive for mid-sized Canadian businesses in a variety of industries. Most recently, Calven spent 7 years at privately-owned Sinclair Technologies, a designer of RF antennae and other RF products, where he started as Chief Restructuring Officer. Seeing value beyond the liquidation of assets, he restructured the debt, raised new capital and completely re-tooled the company to focus on more efficient and profitable operations. Within a year he was appointed as CEO and grew the company to $20 million in sales and increased profitability by $6 million, culminating in the company’s sale to TSX-listed Norsat International.Prior to Sinclair, Calven was Chief Restructuring Officer for TSX-listed Cabletel Communications as well as musicmusicmusic Inc., both of which assignments resulted in the sale of the businesses to strategic buyers.Prior to his roles as CRO, Calven spent 10 years at Comlink and its acquiror, TSX-listed Cygnal Technologies, a wired and wireless communications equipment company, where he was CFO of both companies. Prior CFO roles included Walling Corporation, a telecom distributor, and Sterling Health Care Canada, a nursing home chain in the Niagara region.Calven is a CPA (Price Waterhouse), a Chartered Business Valuator, and a graduate of the University of British Columbia (B. Comm.).

Hugh MacDiarmid – A native of Toronto, Hugh MacDiarmid has accumulated a broad range of executive and professional experience spanning his 30+ year career. His focus has been on technology-intensive businesses and transportation-related industries, with extensive exposure to international commerce.Mr. MacDiarmid has operating executive experience in large corporations such as Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, where he served as President and CEO, Canadian Pacific Railway, where he served as Executive Vice-President Commercial, and Laidlaw International Inc., where he served as President and CEO of their student transportation business unit. He has also worked in smaller and mid-sized enterprises, serving as President and CEO of Lumonics Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of laser systems, and, more recently, as Managing Director of Holden America LLC, a railway components supply business. Earlier in his career, Mr. MacDiarmid was a partner with McKinsey & Company, a leading international management-consulting firm.Mr. MacDiarmid currently serves as a director of ALH Holding Inc., SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. and is Chair of Terrestrial Energy Inc.  He has also served on several boards in the high technology sector. In the public sector, he served as Chairman of the Board of the Public Policy Forum and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ottawa General Hospital. He was also an appointee of both the Government of Canada, as Chairman of the External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation, and the Government of Ontario, as a governor of Ortech International.  Mr. MacDiarmid obtained his Honours Business Administration degree from the Ivey Business School at Western University and currently sits on the Ivey Advisory Board. He also obtained his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as a Miller Scholar.Mr. MacDiarmid is married and resides in Toronto. He has two grown children, and enjoys golf, fitness and tennis.

Wayne Maddever – Wayne has a broad base of experience in senior management positions in early stage technology companies in both the private and public sectors, with particular experience in start-up and turnaround situations. He holds a PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering from the University of Toronto. He began his career with the Gas Products Division of Union Carbide (now Praxair) in both the US and Canada where he held positions in research and development, product management and sales management.He has considerable experience in the clean-tech field having headed a division of St. Lawrence Starch, which developed and commercialized degradable plastics. Later, he was President of Resource Plastics, one of the first and largest post-consumer plastics waste recycling facilities in North America. He served as COO at Cymat Technologies where he commercialized the technology and developed the market for Cymat’s foamed aluminum in architectural applications. He was also CEO of Plasma Environmental Technologies, and early stage hazardous waste-destruction company.Wayne has experience with equipment manufacture having served as General Manager of Sanden Machine, a printing press manufacturer and as COO of CFN Precision, a precision machining company. Most recently he held the position of CEO for Watson Brown HSM Ltd., a UK based venture backed company with novel rubber devulcanisation technology with operations in Germany and Canada.Dr. Maddever holds several patents and is the author of numerous technical papers in several different fields and is co-author of a textbook on degradable plastics. He sits on the Boards of several early stage technology companies.

F. Michael Marti, CA – Since leaving a Big 4 accounting firm thirty years ago, Michael has held leadership roles in private and public companies as a COO, CFO and CEO. The businesses have ranged from single to multiple sites, had up to 1,400 employees in Canada and the USA, and covered a variety of different industries including personal protection electronic monitoring devices, contract electronics manufacturing and the engineering and manufacturing of heavy duty equipment for forestry and mining. The growth of some of these companies included extensive M&A activity that Michael was principally responsible for. He was key or led efforts to successfully raise over $100 million of debt and equity. For the past three years he has been consulting as a strategist and business advisor to companies providing food services and logistics, commercial printing, paper distribution, manufacturing and installation of house renovation/organization products, and female athleisure clothing. Michael is comfortable in the boardroom, in front of customers and suppliers, bankers and other capital providers, and with his co-workers in the office or on the factory and warehouse floor.

Gary Moss – Gary has held senior operations and finance roles during the course of his 25 year career. His career has focused on technology, media and entertainment, in companies that that have experienced rapid change. Companies have ranged from multi-nationals to start-ups. He is currently President and CEO of Yangaroo, a leading secure B2B digital media management solution for the music and advertising industries, where he led the sales and marketing efforts to drive towards profitability, instituted a mid-long term strategic plan for organic growth and possible M&A opportunities, planned a balance sheet restructuring plan which will eliminate a significant debt overhang, raised capital introduced a comprehensive PR and IR strategy.Prior to Yangaroo, Gary was COO of IMAX, responsible for global operations, strategic planning, corporate development and innovation in a high growth, results driven environment. During his tenure at IMAX, sales and profits more than doubled. Gary was also COO and CFO for Concert Productions International, where he was instrumental in acquiring non-traditional rights and related businesses, building on the core business.Gary is a Chartered Accountant, from South Africa, and has held progressively senior roles in the music, video game, computer hardware and engineering industries, since qualifying in 1983.
Gary has served on numerous Board and Advisory Boards.

Tim Penner – Tim spent his entire 33 year career with Procter & Gamble, most recently as President of P&G Canada from 1999 to 2011. During this 12 year period, he grew Canadian sales 2.5X and grew profit 5X, making P&G the largest consumer goods company in Canada with sales of $3 Billion and roughly 2,500 employees. As former President of Canada’s largest media buyer, Tim brings to the FMMC Buyout Fund portfolio companies an unparalleled understanding of ROI related to sales and marketing spend across all media types.Prior to this role, Tim moved internationally twice with P&G. He served as Vice President and General Manager of P&G’s North American Paper business, located in Cincinnati Ohio. He also served as Vice President and General Manager of P&G’s Health & Beauty Care business in Surrey, UK.Since his retirement from P&G, Tim now serves on the Board of Intact Financial Corp, Canada’s largest P&C insurance company; he is the in-coming Chair of the YMCA of Greater Toronto; he is a Board Trustee of Sick Kids Hospital; and he serves on the Advisory Committee of the Ontario Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity.Past board assignments include GS1 Canada (Chair); Food and Consumer Products Canada (Chair); Youth Challenge Fund; Career Edge; Wilfred Laurier University Board of Governors and Dean’s Advisory Council; Schulich School of Business International Advisory Council; and the Conference Board of Canada.

Trish Saltys – Trish has more than 25 years of senior finance and leadership experience as an executive across many industries, during which time she has helped many companies achieve sustainable value through cost optimization supported by robust business processes.  Recent CFO roles include: Kraus Flooring in Kitchener-Waterloo, where she helped a private equity investor streamline the business, and optimize costs; 1-800-Got-Junk? In Vancouver, the world’s largest junk removal company with over 200 franchises and 1700 employees; and GT Group Telecom, where she led the company’s activities in raising over $1 billion in financing, including its $250 million IPO, and in acquiring Shaw Fiberlink.  Trish also spent several years as Executive Director, Strategic Planning of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, a primary healthcare provider in the Greater Vancouver Area with over 16,000 employees, where she led the development of its first integrated long term strategic, capital, operating and service plans. Other experience includes finance roles with Business Objects (now SAP Global) and Bruce Allen Talent & Bryan Adams Group of Companies.

Trish is a CPA, earning her professional designation with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 1990, and is a graduate of the Richard Ivey Executive Management Program.

Stephen Sorocky – Stephen Sorocky is an accomplished technology CEO and Board Director in public company and venture capital entrepreneurial environments. He has broad experience in emerging and high growth companies in the aerospace, manufacturing, instrumentation, and medical laboratory sectors.He is President of Exigent Innovations Inc. which assists investors and Boards facing challenges in growing the value of their companies. Exigent provides strategic and operational assessments, implementation support through Board leadership and continued guidance to leadership teams.From 2010 to 2011, Stephen was CEO of LxData Inc., a fiber optic sensor manufacturer for the oil and gas industry. He completed a reorganization and sale of the company to provide shareholders a desired exit. From 2007-2009, he was CEO of Virtek Vision International Inc., a $53M TSX-listed company producing laser systems and sold it to a strategic buyer for 275% of its 2008 market value. Mr. Sorocky was CEO of Dynacon Inc. from 2000–2007, an early stage, VC-backed company that created systems for space and medical laboratory automation.At Spar Aerospace Ltd. (1994-1998), Stephen was VP & GM of the $130M Space Robotics Division which designed, manufactured and supported the Space Shuttle Canadarm, Space Station Canadarm and Dextre advanced space robotics. Previously, as Assistant Vice President to the CEO, he chaired a Spar-BCE joint venture in satellite-to-ground network research and held various engineering and program management roles in the Montreal satellite systems division.Stephen has an MBA in International Business and International Finance, a BASc in Aerospace Engineering and is a Professional Engineer and Chartered Director. He is Chair, SkyTrac Systems, a Director of the Canadian Commercial Corporation (a $1.8 Billion Crown corporation) and the Ontario Telemedicine Network. He has served on many boards, including work on Audit, HR and Governance committees.

Peter Becke – Peter has more than 25 years of global experience as an executive in the high technology sector, as a Vice President at Nortel Networks when it was a Fortune 100 company, as CEO of venture-backed Metconnex and SiberCore Technologies, as founder and CEO of Venturing Hills Corporation, and as an active Investor, Director and Advisor to many corporate, community and university boards.Through Venturing Hills Corporation, Peter provides advisory services to CEOs, with a focus on growth strategies, financing, human capital and M&A, often serving as an independent Director and Advisory Board member. Most recently Peter completed a project with DragonWave Corporation assisting with the acquisition of the global microwave business of Nokia Siemens Networks.Peter has served on the following boards; Nortel Ventures Board, Ottawa Hydro, Telecom Ottawa, Capital Angel Network (co-founder), Creation Technologies, SiberCore, Metconnex, Channelware, AceTech, OCRI, Cognilore, Wedding Republic, and advisory boards including, SMART Ventures, Learnsoft, Acerra, Vision Awards, TOP (The Ottawa Partnership), the Canadian Forces Human Resources Advisory Board, Talkswitch, Queen’s MBAst, University of Ottawa EMBA, and was a governor of Ashbury College.

Peter is a lawyer, called to the Ontario Bar in 1982, and is a graduate of Queen’s University (LL.B, MBA).