Navigating the Tides of Entrepreneurship: From Maritime Officer to WIND Mobile Billion-Dollar Exit (S2.E4)

Welcome to Season 2, episode 4 of Backstage Pass, the podcast by Front Row Ventures taking you behind the scenes into Canada’s tech ecosystem and its success stories.

We’ll be hosting Canada’s top investors, founders, and tech minds and asking them the questions that matter to you.

Today, we're super excited to have Brice Scheschuk as our guest

Brice is the Managing Partner of Globalive Capital as well as the CEO of Globalive Communications.

He was a co-founder and CFO of WIND Mobile, which was acquired by Shaw in 2015 for $1.6B dollars.

Brice has over twenty-five years of experience building and operating companies.

He obtained his CPA, CA designation at PWC and B.Comm (Hon.) Finance from Dalhousie University.

In addition to ALL of that, Brice also served as a Maritime Surface Officer in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve.

He now serves on numerous boards and advisory committees and is a frequent speaker on scale-up entrepreneurship and innovation.

Finally, during the pandemic, he co-founded MindFrame Connect, a not-for-profit focused on elevating the craft of mentorship and improving entrepreneurial resiliency.

In this episode, we'll cover all of that and more - We deep dive into Brice's entrepreneurial journey and how he engineered one of Canada's greatest telecom acquisitions.

He also cracks open how to evolve as a leader through self-awareness and the unmatched importance of psychological safety on high-performance teams.

Without further ado, here’s my conversation with Brice

About FRV:

FRV is Canada's first and largest university-focused VC firm. We invest in those leveraging cutting-edge technologies to create and redefine industries.

Welcome to Season 2, episode 3 of Backstage Pass, the podcast by Front Row Ventures taking you behind the scenes into Canada’s tech ecosystem and its success stories.

Today, we’re happy to have Chris Arsenault as our guest.

Chris is the co-founder, President & CEO of Inovia Capital, one of Canada's largest Venture Capital firms with now over $2.2 billion dollars under management.

Chris currently serves as a director on the boards of AppDirect, Groupe Dynamite, Poka, Snapcommerce, LifeHouse; and, until recently, Lightspeed (which IPOed in 2020), and Luxury Retreats (acquired by Airbnb in 2017)

Prior to Inovia, Chris co-founded and launched a number of Software, Mobile and Consumer Internet technology start-up companies, including two spin-offs of telecom giants Microcell and Teleglobe.

His work in the mid-90’s as co-founder and CEO of SIT provided him with the opportunity to play an important part in the initial growth of the Internet.
As one of Netscape’s first external partners and integrators, SIT was sold to Ubizen of Belgium in 1999 for €42 million.

In this episode, we'll cover all of that and more - We deep dive into Chris' entrepreneurial journey before he became an investor.

And how a guy born on the northeastern tip of Quebec, almost 10 hours from Montreal, went on to build one of Canada's largest VC firms.

Without further a due, here’s, Chris Arsenault.

Welcome to Season 2, episode 2 of Backstage Pass, the podcast by Front Row Ventures taking you behind the scenes into Canada’s tech ecosystem and its success stories.

Today, we’re happy to have Kim Furlong.
Kim is the CEO of the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association--the CVCA. The CVCA is an organization that represents Canada’s private capital ecosystem. They speak to governments and create opportunities to voice the most pressing issues in the Canadian private capital landscape.

Prior to the CVCA, she spent five years in the Canadian government and a decade at Amgen as VP of Federal Government Affairs. She graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor in American History, and from Carleton with a Master of International Trade and Finance.

In this episode, we’ll cover all of that and more. So, without further ado, here’s Kim Furlong.