Canoe
With more than 20 years of senior management experience, Jason is an accomplished technology leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of accelerating business growth. Most recently, he served as Managing Director and Head of Private Investments at Nima Capital, a large single-family office focusing on alternatives. As a hands-on leader at TheMarkets.com, Jason managed sales, business development and operations for the company from inception through its ultimate acquisition by Capital IQ. He also incubated, developed and led MeritMark through its sale to WallStreetOnDemand. Jason began his career at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in capital markets and institutional fixed income. He is passionate about mentoring and building companies, and advises multiple early stage and middle-market businesses. Jason graduated from Lafayette College with a Dual Degree in Economics and English Literature.
Canoe
Canoe Intelligence is a first-of-its-kind technology that allows allocators to unlock their data. Canoe reimagines operational workflows and enables clients to transform their processes in order to eliminate manual data entry. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data capture technologies, Canoe automates the digitization of PDF reporting documents into actionable data and intelligence for institutional investors, allocators, and asset servicing firms. With Canoe, clients refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth. Canoe’s AI-driven platform was developed in 2013 for Portage Partners LLC, a private investment firm, and is relied upon by hundreds of institutional investors, service providers, family offices, and allocators.