XR Ignite is driven by a global team of XR leaders, advisors, and mentors.
Team & Advisors
Alan Smithson
CEO
MetaVRse CEO ~ XR For Business Podcast Host ~ TEDx Speaker ~ Top XR Influencer ~ >1.5M targeted views per month on LinkedIn
Mark Kuess
Product Launch Strategy
President & Founder @ Kaisima ~ Keiretsu Forum Board Member ~ Industry Advisor @ Munk School of Global Affairs ~ Formerly Celestica and Kobo
Julie Smithson
Education & Training
MetaVRse ~ Co-President VR/AR Association (Toronto) ~ Co-Chair VRARA Education & 5G committees ~ TEDx Producer
Claire Cui
M&A and Investment Advisor
Richmond M&A Advisors ~ Formerly PwC, EY, and BDO Canada
Alex Colgan
Marketing Advisor
Founder, Farflung Studio ~ Formerly Leap Motion
Christian Schneiring
Sales Execution Strategist
Lawo Technology Sales Expert ~ VR/AR Association Board Member (Toronto) ~ Rotman MBA
Sam Northway
UX/UI
Deloitte Digital ~ AT&T ~ Tribal Worldwide ~ Havas
Simon Conlin
Project Management
FITC ~ The App Labb ~ Seneca College ~ Globacore ~ JWT ~ Saatchi & Saatchi
Eric Janssen
Sales Strategy
Intellitix ~ Ivey Business School ~ JM Security ~ Propel Entrepreneurship
Our Mentors
Elizabeth Baron
Immersionary Enterprises
Alice Bonasio
Inside.com
John Buzzell
You Are Here Labs
Greg Caterer
Neutral Digital
Eden Chen
Fishermen Labs
Jon Cheney
Seek
Jonny Cosgrove
Meeting Room
John Cunningham
DiSTI
Jeremy Dalton
PwC
Steve Dantas
Digityl
Benjamin de Wit
VR Days Amsterdam
Michael Eichenseer
Flipswitch VR
Bob Fine
VR Voice
Charlie Fink
Forbes
Taylor Freeman
Upload VR
Sabarish Gnanamoorthy
WaypointAR
Steve Grubbs
VictoryXR
Alexander Haque
Lumiere VR / Retinad VR
Samuel Huber
Admix
Michael Kaldenbach
Shell
Tyler Lindell
Scanta
Jacob Lowenstein
Spatial
Keram Malicki-Sanchez
VRTO
Matt Miesnieks
6D.ai
Florin Mihoc
ff Venture Capital
Jonathan Moss
Sprint
Vinay Narayan
HTC Vive
Amy Peck
Endeavor VR
Nathan Pettyjohn
VRARA / Lenovo
Terry Proto
Virtual Reality Marketing
Raj Puran
Intel
Gabriel Rene
Verses
Mark Sage
The AREA
Terry Schussler
Deutsche Telekom
Dr. Bjorn Schwerdtfeger
AR Experts
Ryan Smith
FTSY
Caspar Thykier
Zappar
Bill Tustin
Centertec
Antony Vitillo
Skarred Ghost
Tracey Wiedmeyer
Incontext Solutions
Samantha Wolfe
We Are Phase 2
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