People
Mike Downs
Mike has over eighteen years of Internet marketing strategy and product management experience helping create, shape, and launch technology products on the Web. Mike is very passionate about how human beings use computers. Focusing on usability and user experience for the last 10 years, Mike has helped retail giants like Macy’s and The Gap as well as government organizations like Tourism British Columbia and Service Nova Scotia deliver experiences that engage their audience.
Mrugakshee Palwe
My name is Mrugakshee Palwe. I started investing my time in understanding the blockchain technology in mid-2018.
- Graduated with a degree in computer science in spring 2018
- Received a scholarship for Consensys academy’s 2018 Developer Bootcamp in October 2018.
- Certificate of Proficiency from Ethereum Blockchain Developer Bootcamp - Feb 2019
- Forked and customized the Bitshares, Graphene, and Peerplays blockchains
- Co-founded Atlantic Blockchain Company Inc. in November 2018
Nick Baskwill
Nick is a grade 5 teacher at Kingston Elementary school in Kingston, NS. He has been teaching for 10 years. Nick completed his B. Sc from Lyndon State College, his B. Ed from Acadia University, and his M. Ed from Mount Saint Vincent University.
Noah Tomkins
Originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Noah Tompkins is a fourth-year Entrepreneurship & Innovation major at Acadia University. His passion for sustainability and social enterprise has lead Noah to working as the Marketing Coordinator for Just Us! Coffee Roasters, becoming a project manager and presenter for Enacts Acadia, and the President of Fair Trade Acadia.
Paul Richards
Paul Richards is innovacorp's regional manager for Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley and South Shore. In this role, Paul focuses on enabling knowledge-based companies to accelerate their growth and helping foster a dynamic high-growth entrepreneurial culture in the region.
Paul spent over 10 years working with the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship (ACSBE) assisting businesses in rural Nova Scotia. In this role, Paul also worked to build the entrepreneurial capacity and infrastructure of several developing economies in Africa.
Philip Kerr
Philip is a Canadian lawyer, and Canadian patent and trademark agent with 29 years of experience. He is a partner in the Canadian patent firm of Kerr & Nadeau (offices in Halifax and Ottawa).
Philip is also the president of PCTxs Inc., a firm that provides an online marketplace for selling/licensing patent application rights, particularly unexpired PCT national phase rights and unexpired Paris Convention patent application rights.
Pierre Clouthier
Co-founder, President, Progeny Genealogy Inc., specialising in computer graphics software for genealogy.
Sandy McFadden
Sandy started playing with and building things for the web in 1999. At some point along the way he started trying out different content management systems to help make things easier. After trying to write his own very basic one he settled on WordPress and has been using it to build web sites for years.
Now he works for Automattic helping people everyday to use their sites on WordPress.com
Sara Baxter
A fourth year Accounting major, Sara Baxter from Moncton, New Brunswick, exercises her entrepreneurial skillset through Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre as the Community Entrepreneurship Developer. Her desire to create change and have a positive impact on society has led her to become a Project Co-Manager for Enacts Acadia’s Project Regenerate.