We are entrepreneurs,
helping new founders build.

“The EVV team assist Entrepreneurs of early stage companies in navigating the complex world of corporate governance, business strategy, early stage company support programs, product development, Venture Capital financing and all important customer acquisition.  We identify and focus their strengths and provide mentors where specific needs are apparent, but above all, we help establish a foundation on which an early stage company can mature their ideas and grow.”

– Bob Justason, Co-Founder, East Valley Ventures

Mission

East Valley has a simple mission that guides all of our practices and investments: To grow the economy of Atlantic Canada by helping founders turn ideas into companies.

We believe that the companies we foster today will be tomorrow’s titans. We invest in ICT, not only because it is our area of expertise, but because it offers such enormous growth potential for both individual investors and the economy as a whole. East Valley is working to create a vibrant tech sector here at home that will help Atlantic Canada prosper as we move into the future.

Technically

Services: Mentorship, Investment
Location: Atlantic Canada
Sector: ICT
Investment stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Team

Gerry Pond

Co-Founder
Chair and co-founder of Mariner. Former President of Aliant Telecom.

Pam Beyea

Office Manager
30 years experience in the ICT sector, specializing in business change management.

Bob Justason

Co-Founder
COO and co-founder of Mariner. Former VP of Broadband Engineering at Aliant Telecom.

Elaine McKinnon

Executive in Residence
32 years of experience in the information technology sector in both financial and operational roles.

Rick MacPhee

VP of Business Development
24 years experience in the ICT sector, specializing in healthcare. Former VP of Product and Business Development at AnyWare Group.

Brian Dunphy

Executive in Residence
Brian is a successful entrepreneur and technologist with 18 years of experience in both startups, scale-ups and large Technology companies.

Leslie Magee

Executive in Residence
Leslie pursues real estate development and investment opportunities including retail and multi-residential acquisitions, private equity and angel investment.

Marc Savoie

Executive in Residence
Marc is a dedicated senior manager and angel investor with over 20 years of experience in product management, software development, and customer success.

Brendan MacNeil

Incubator Liaison
Brendan MacNeil supports student and youth entrepreneurship in Atlantic Canada through his role as Student Manager of The Path, an incubator program run by the Maple League of Universities.

Sally Ng

Executive in Residence
Sally is the Founder and CEO of The Triple Effect, which focused on developing best practices in corporate innovation, entrepreneurial community development, and technology coaching. Her passions include entrepreneurship, diversity, and youth leadership development.

Haakon Pedersen

Executive in Residence
Haakon is a portfolio manager at IceCap Asset Management Ltd. where his clients include high net-worth families and non-profit organizations.

Sreejata Chatterjee

Executive in Residence
Sreejata has a background in technology and spends her time building products that are loved while tying it together with customer success, engineering, sales and marketing but most importantly, customers.

Tukan Das

Executive in Residence
Bio coming soon.

We’re part of
the Mariner family.

Mariner Partners is the parent company of five business units, including East Valley. Mariner has invested in startups from the beginning with a mission of accelerating innovation, and in 2012 created East Valley to serve as the official angel capital and new business acceleration arm of the business. Two of Mariner’s senior executives (Gerry Pond, Chairman, and Bob Justason, COO) co-founded East Valley, along with Jeff White and Bob Neal.

We work syngergistically with Mariner toward our common goals. Mariner is often an early adopter of products and services created by our investee companies and has acquired a company from our portfolio. Shift Energy, now a part of Mariner, was first an East Valley investment.