Jan Peeters

Jan is the CEO and controlling shareholder of Olameter Inc. Prior to founding Olameter, Jan was the founder (1988) and CEO of ƒonorola Inc., a Canadian long distance telephone company and, at the time, the main developer of inter-city fiber-optic networks in both Canada and the northern United States. The company was sold to Sprint in 1998 for C$1.8 billion.

Jan served for 20 years on the Board of the Cogeco companies (CGO & CCA, TSX-300), North America’s 8th largest cable company. He stepped down as Chairman in 2018 having assured the succession of the new CEO. Jan also served on the Board of Intersil Corporation, a semi-conductor company, from 2000 to 2016 (ISL, NASDAQ-100). In 2016, Intersil was sold to Renesas Electronics for US$3.2 billion.

Jan is a Governor Emeritus of McGill University, having served on that Board from 1999 to 2008. On McGill’s University’s behalf, he founded and chaired iNovia Capital from 2001-2011. iNovia, based in Montréal, has raised in excess of US$1 billion through its various start-up and later-stage venture capital funds. Jan continues to sit on iNovia’s Investment Committee.