• Frédéric Godbout, Investment Manager, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (Montreal, QC)
• Graeme Johnson,Independent Consultant (Montreal, QC)
• Monique Laliberté, Investment Manager, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (Montreal, QC)
• Éric Legault, Investment Manager, Venture capital and Private equity, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (Montreal, QC)
• Claude Létourneau, President & CEO, Vaperma
• Jean Potvin, Investment Manager, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
• Louis Têtu, Chairman of the Board and CEO, TALEO (Toronto, ON)
• Normand Tremblay, Independant consultant (Quebec City, QC)
• Jim de Wilde, Venture capitalist and management educator (Toronto, ON)
• Sharon Lewis, Director of Business Development, Vertex Venture Capital (Savyon, Israel)
• Christian Michel Zabbal, Partner, ghSMART & Company, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
• Bernhardt Zeisig, Managing partner, Great Northern Investments (Ottawa, Ont.)

Special Emerging Markets Committee:

• Jean Z. Salome, President, ÆNTIB Capital Management (Montreal, QC)

• Alison Nankivell, Senior Portfolio Manager, Equity, EDC Equity (Ottawa, ON)
• Frank Pho, Vice President, Fund Investments, BDC Venture Capital (Vancouver, BC)
• Warren Plunkett, Portfolio Manager, Equity, EDC Equity (Ottawa, ON)
• John Dougery, Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners (Menlo Park, CA)
• Geza Tatrallyay, Managing Partner, Vertis Environmental plc (Budapest, Hungary)
• Sunil Selby, Managing Partner, Trellis Capital Corporation (Toronto, ON)
• Sunil Sharma, Director International, Canadian Venture Capital Association (Toronto, ON)

Special west coast committee

• Jean R. Bourbonnais, President:
  Investments Information and Communication Technologies Group (Montreal, QC)
• Sunil Sharma, Director International, Canadian Venture Capital Association (Toronto, ON)
• Andrew Keenan, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (Ottawa, ON)

Special emerging partners committee:

• Allison Goldberg, Executive Director Time Warner Ventures, NYPEN Director (NYC) Bio »
• Bernie Li, President Principal, iNovia Capital (Montreal, Canada) Bio »
• Craig Netterfield, VP Wellington Financial (Toronto, Canada) Bio »
• Joe Medved, Associate SoftBank Capital (Boston, Massachusetts) Bio »
• Teak Murphy, Associate Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Board Member of NextGen (California) Bio »

Special Institutional Investors Committee:

• Philip Haggerty, President:
  Vice President, Sponsor and Stakeholder Relations, OMERS (Toronto, Ont)