Our People

Harish Consul is the Founder & CEO of Ocgrow Ventures, which is widely recognized as one of Canada’s leading private venture capital funds, with global tech focus. Mr. Consul has spent his entire career as an entrepreneur, in scaling & investing in highly successful exponential growth businesses around the globe, with over 35 years of experience. Ocgrow Ventures has been a leading early investor in several world class companies to date, including Amazon, Shopify, Coupang, Viome, Garuda & numerous others. Mr. Consul is an innovator, thought leader and creator, widely recognized for his visionary leadership & investment knowledge, always focused to build and inspire high energy teams around the world. He is an active Board and Advisory Board member of several exponential growth tech Unicorn companies. Mr. Consul is a highly acclaimed keynote speaker at many investment and tech conferences from London, Abu Dhabi, New Delhi & around the globe. His visionary speeches to sold out audiences range from How to Build a Tech Unicorn, Health & Longevity, to Global Venture Investing. Areas of expertise include latest global trends in Digital Innovation, FinTech, Generative AI & Health Technology.

Alex is an experienced leader in the areas of Fintech, new venture creation and startups. She has experience building digital products and founding ventures across a variety of industries and most notably built a digital bank from scratch for a Canadian bank. She has an MBA from Queen's and a BComm from the University of Calgary. In 2018 she was selected one of Canada's Top 100 Powerful Women. Outside of work you can find her in the mountains with her two large dogs, young daughter, and husband.

As the Chief Executive Officer, Andrea is responsible for leading the development and execution of short- and long-term strategies, assessing, monitoring, and minimizing risks to the company, and continually increasing shareholder value. She is the primary voice of the company, communicating with shareholders, government entities, potential investors, and the public. In building a social enterprise, she is focused on maintaining integrity to social responsibility in all business activities. Andrea is driven by her purpose, “to help people believe they can with confidence”, and guided by her core values of wisdom, relationship, equity, and joy. As a four-time tech founder, with two successful exits, she has spent the last 20 years of her career creatively solving problems in the health, fitness, and wellness industries using disruptive technology. Previous companies include: Microsoft, iTECH Fitness, The Ride to Conquer Cancer, and Power Plate.

Over the course of her career, Ashleigh has co-founded and led 2 companies and held senior leadership roles at large organizations including Mercedes-Benz Research & Development and Porsche Digital. She is a builder at heart and is passionate about all it takes to build companies, teams, and products from zero to scale.

Bryan is an experienced investor with a focus on digital assets and early-stage investments. He is currently an investor at Side Door Ventures, where he is actively involved in the Digital Asset Fund I and Seed Fund II. Bryan also works at Plug and Play, where he is spearheading a new program designed to bridge the investor ecosystems of Alberta and California and unlock untapped opportunities alongside growth for the Alberta innovation ecosystem. Before Plug and Play, Bryan was part of the investment team at Tribune Capital, a family office in Alberta. During his time at Tribune Capital, Bryan led the growth of their early-stage investment portfolio, investing in over 15 companies across pre-seed, seed, and series A stages. Bryan also ran the venture building studio of the family office and helped to incubate and grow start-ups from ideation.

Evan is a successful entrepreneur in the Canadian technology industry providing vision, leadership and experience to organizations ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Prior to AltoSante, Evan founded Omnilogic, Maple Music and Ideaca.

Building digital health solutions for 15 years. Expertise in Discovery and Delivery of digital products. Experience working with executive leadership to align corporate and product visions to realize outcome-driven objectives.

Natoya has corporate and start-up experience with expertise in Customer Discovery, Pitching your startup and strategy implementation. Her sense of adventure has taken her from Toronto to Victoria, Calgary, and Waterloo, where she gained valuable professional experiences and carved her path into the tech scene. Natoya is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build and develop commercially viable ventures. She recently founded a Saas startup. Natoya holds a Master of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management from Royal Roads University.

Sahr Saffa, Founder and Chairperson of C-Tribe and 3x tech entrepreneur & advisor, has extensive experience building and scaling companies. He has also had a fair share of failures, a prerequisite for working in the startup space. He is also a former partner and former Director of Marketing at a Bay Area startup, AutonomIQ, which specializes in AI-enabled, low-code software testing. AutonomIQ was recently acquired by Sauce Labs, where he currently holds the role of Product Marketing Manager. His latest tech venture he’s consulted for, Ovenue, a blockchain-enabled marketplace that helps companies buy, sell, and trade their intellectual property, raised its pre-seed round and is helping companies realize the full potential of their financial statements. Most proudly, he's a stay-at-home son to two incredible parents and a sister; a stay-at-home boyfriend to an amazing girlfriend, all of whom he loves very much.

A business process optimization and automation specialist, I’ve spent over 25 years working with B2B SaaS software, data, cloud, digital and back office, leading and developing custom and out-of-the-box solutions that drive efficiency, support growth and introduce people to what’s possible. I've been a leader in two successful scaleup companies here in Calgary (Evoco and Benevity), have worked all over the world and founded my own robotics startup a couple of years ago. As that experiment came to a close, I've been consulting to a number of local organizations including Virtual Gurus, Fillip, the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking at U of C and Tangent Design Engineering.