Henry Vehovec
As Mindfirst Inc.’s President and Chief Strategy Officer, Henry Vehovec provides strategic consulting, financing and interim executive services to growing businesses. Currently, Mr. Vehovec is Executive Director, CleanTech North (CTN), a consortium of leading services providers aimed at helping commercialize and grow Canadian clean technology companies internationally.
Since 2001, Mr. Vehovec has been a member of Sustainable Development Technology Canada‘s (SDTC) Investment Committee. In this role he has participated in hundreds of plan reviews in areas including batteries, biofuels, cogeneration, fuel cells, geothermal, hydrogen, lighting, nuclear, recycling, smart grid, soil remediation, solar, tidal, waste management, water, wave, wind and more. To date SDTC has committed more than $463 million to 183 projects.
Mr. Vehovec’s management and entrepreneurial career has included positions in sales, marketing, engineering, operations, finance, general management and chief executive roles. He has worked with major corporations including IBM and EPSON, and has been a shareholder and director of small and mid sized public companies. He has owned and operated his own companies ADAM Peripherals and OptiMac.
Mr. Vehovec is active in numerous volunteer, community and philanthropic efforts. He is the Founder and Chair Emeritus of National Angel Capital Organization (NACO). He is the Founder and Chair of CHIN UP Fund supporting injured nerve and regenerative medical research at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. He has led several fundraising campaigns for faculties within the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
Mr. Vehovec holds an engineering degree from the University of Toronto (1979), an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business (1984), has completed the Owner/President Management (OPM) Program at the Harvard Business School (1996) and received ICD.D certification from the Rotman School of Management’s Institute of Corporate Directors Corporate Governance College (2005).