Montréal, November 26th - Neotech Ventures announced today the appointment of Mr. Mark R. Bruneau as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective November 15 2007.
Mark R. Bruneau is a Senior Fellow with The Monitor Company, a global strategy consultancy, and Chairman of M’Pact TV, the leader in digital signage and immersive customer engagement environments. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Bruneau served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Bell Canada Enterprises. Prior to BCE, Mr. Bruneau was Founder and CEO of ADVENTIS, a global strategy and management consulting firm with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, and Munich, serving CEO’s in the global telecoms, computing, financial services and web 2.0 industries. Mr. Bruneau is frequently quoted in Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, as well as the Globe and Mail, and has helped shape the modern day telecoms and web 2.0 industry structures. Mr. Bruneau serves on the Board of the Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, NeuroScience Canada, Centaur Theater, and Carrefour Arc-en-Ciel. A resident of Montreal, and a proud father, Mr. Bruneau is pleased to be contributing to Canada’s entrepreneurship.
"Mark’s experience and understanding of all IT related businesses will be a strong enabler for us," said Daniel Robichaud, President of Neotech Ventures. "His expertise will contribute to the growth and success of Neotech Ventures as a business incubator and prosperity engine for Canada for years to come.”
About Neotech Ventures
Neotech Ventures is the venture capital company of angel investors Daniel Robichaud and Carl Fugere. It invests in web-based businesses, online media, Internet infrastructure and hosted applications, and finances its own idea development
Neotech Ventures has a portfolio of 9 companies in the field of technologies. These companies are in sectors in strong growth and work according to a business model of recurring incomes. Their current growth is impressive and multiple investment opportunities arise.
Neotech Ventures’ business is about helping entrepreneurs, the people who change the way we live and work by creating new products and services by helping them convert their ideas and ambitions into reality. Its business model is, among other things, based on an incubator which converts starting companies or even start-up ideas into viable and structured companies to attack their respective market. Neotech Ventures’ knowledge in international marketing, broad network of contacts and organization method for companies form a model having already proven reliable on several occasions.
As an investor and partner, Neotech Ventures provides valuable industry, strategic and corporate development expertise to help young companies succeed.
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