Hello <<First Name>>,

We are pleased to report the announcement of the 12 members of the TMX Advancing Innovation Roundtable, being chaired by Yaletown Partner Salil Munjal.

One of the biggest challenges facing Canadian technology companies today is access to growth capital. This emerging growth gap, we've documented in our research (English edition, édition française).

On Tuesday, the TMX announced the 12 members of the Advancing Innovation Roundtable, an independent working group to review strategies to facilitate access to growth capital for companies in Canada's innovation economy. Roundtable members include the following prominent senior executives from the investment and capital formation communities in Canada.

• Salil Munjal - Chair, Advancing Innovation Roundtable and General Partner, Yaletown Partners
• Geoffrey Beattie - Chief Executive Officer, Generation Capital; Chairman, Relay Ventures; Member of the Board of Directors at General Electric, Royal Bank of Canada and Maple Leaf Foods
• Helen Beck - Senior Vice-President, Canadian Equities and Indexed Management, Equity Markets, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
• Michael Denham - President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Development Bank of Canada
• Paul Desmarais III - Vice-President, Power Financial and Power Corporation; Member of the Board of Directors of Great-West Life and Investors Group (Québec)
• Lou Eccleston - Chief Executive Officer, TMX Group
• Stephen Forbes - Executive Vice-President and Chief Commercial Officer, CIBC
• Hugh O'Reilly - President and Chief Executive Officer, OPTrust
• Gerry Pond - Chairman and Co-Founder, Mariner Partners Inc. and Co-Founder, The Pond-Deshpande Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick
• Lisa Porlier - Lead (Technology Sector) and Deputy Country Manager, Russell Reynolds Associates
• Kevin Uebelein - Chief Executive Officer, AIMCo
• Tamara Vrooman - President and Chief Executive Officer, Vancity Credit Union

In early 2017, the Roundtable will deliver its recommendations regarding measures and initiatives to be taken by Canada's capital formation community, federal and provincial governments, and other stakeholders to successfully scale high-impact and globally competitive companies.

For more information regarding the Advancing Innovation Roundtable and to view member biographies, please visit: http://www.tmx.com/advancinginnovation /En française: http://www.tmx.com/advancing-innovation-roundtable?lang=fr

Join the conversation on Twitter using the #AdvancingInnovationRT hashtag.

Sincerely,

Hans Knapp

Yaletown Partners