{"id":62278,"date":"2015-05-13T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=62278"},"modified":"2015-05-13T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T07:05:57","slug":"invest-ottawa-expands-board-of-directors-with-addition-of-tobias-lutke-other-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/invest-ottawa-expands-board-of-directors-with-addition-of-tobias-lutke-other-entrepreneurs","title":{"rendered":"Invest Ottawa Expands Board of Directors with Addition of Tobias Lutke, Other Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7782\/16986874363_488b57b89c_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"210\" \/>Invest Ottawa announced this week a few notable additions to its Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the board are entrepreneurs who helped grow Ottawa&rsquo;s business ecosystem by creating new companies and are now giving back by volunteering their time. The additions include:<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan Richards, cofounder of Givopoly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tobias Lu\u0308tke, is CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/shopify-1-billion-2015-05-07\" target=\"_blank\">Shopify<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Flick, president of YOUi Labs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>David Ross, CEO of Ross Video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Roche, co-founder of Tundra Semiconductor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The contributions, achievements and thought leadership of these new members has been instrumental in establishing Ottawa as the best place to work, play and grow,&#8221; says Dave Ritonja, Board Co-Chair.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve enjoyed Ottawa as my home and have found it to be a fantastic place to grow a vibrant business and raise a family,&#8221; says Ross.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know firsthand the benefits of Ottawa for building world-class companies that want easy access to global markets,&#8221; says Flick.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra Arya of Acleo, Bryan Haralovich of Welch LLP, and Chris Knight of Knight Enterprises have departed the board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invest Ottawa announced this week a few notable additions to its Board of Directors. Joining the board are entrepreneurs who helped grow Ottawa&rsquo;s business ecosystem by creating new companies and are now giving back by volunteering their time. The additions include: Susan Richards, cofounder of Givopoly Tobias Lu\u0308tke, is CEO of Shopify Jason Flick, president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":62280,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-62278","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/62278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/62278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/62280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62278"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=62278"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=62278"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=62278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}