Keith Ippel

Spring Activator, Inc. is an impact-focused accelerator, incubator, and advisory firm that was founded in 2014 by Keith Ippel. The private company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian company's mission is to accelerate and amplify the activities of purpose-driven leaders and investors to create an equitable and resilient world. Spring Activator has launched Spring Investing Collective, an impact investing network, and Spring Impact Capital, an early stage impact fund, investing in Canadian startup founders to scale innovation in planetary and human health. and has subsidiaries nationally and internationally. Spring Activator unites founders and investors with the tools, knowledge, and community to scale impact together for a better future. Keith Ippel has been the CEO since 2014.

Lat49 is a fast-growing location-focused advertising platform, with partner websites and mobile applications delivering Real Estate, Travel, Health & Fitness, News, Weather and Traffic information. Lat49 provides local and brand advertisers with an interactive medium for delivering geo-targeted display ads to a large and actively engaged user community, based on Lat49's Location Logic ad selection and delivery technology. For mobile and web developers, Lat49 transforms online maps, location-centric websites and mobile applications from cost centers into revenue-generating properties.

IDELIX Software, Inc. provides online advertising network solutions. It serves advertisers, web site publishers and users. The company was founded by David J. Baar in 1996 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Purdy's Chocolates Ltd. manufactures chocolates, confectionaries and chewing gum. Its main product is hedgehog-shaped hazelnut chocolate candy. The company was founded by Richard Cormon Purdy in 1907 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Infowave Software, Inc. engages in the provision of wireless enterprise mobile applications. It develops and markets solutions which integrates business operations by empowering the mobile worker. It provides licensing, maintenance and integration services into the telecom, energy, healthcare, utility and service industries. The company was founded in1984 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.