CleanTech North Appoints Henry Vehovec as Executive Director

CleanTech North (CTN) announced Henry Vehovec’s appointment as Executive Director per the press release below. This appointment allows Vehovec to maintain his current role with Mindfirst Inc. and is complementary to his interests in clean technology companies, [...]

Henry Vehovec Kicks Off Engineering Science Education Conference

Henry Vehovec with University of Toronto Engineering Science students, 2010.

On January 15, 2010, Mindfirst President Henry Vehovec spoke to 250 students and faculty on the topic Energy Systems Design kicking off the 2010 University of Toronto Engineering Science Education Conference. Hilary Inyang, originally scheduled to speak was unable to travel to Toronto. Prof Hilary [...]

Mindfirst President on Panel at Innovator Idol Event

Innovator Idol, the tenth and final installment of the “Growing Your Business” breakfast sessions presented by the Research Innovation Commercialization (RIC) Centre and Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement (OCETA), was held this week at the University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus. The event was inspired by the popular television show American Idol where ‘contestants’ [...]

Henry Vehovec to speak at bioFinance April 3oth, 2009

Mindfirst President, Henry Vehovec, will speak at the bioFinance conference being held at Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre, April 28-30, 2009. Mr. Vehovec is scheduled to speak during the session titled “Alternate Sources of Capital” at 9:00 am on April 30. A full program agenda may be obtained by clicking on the following link bioFinance Agenda.

The bioFinance [...]

Cleantech Angel Network Launching Inaugural Event in April

Toronto’s Cleantech Angel Network (CAN) will be launching their inaugural event on April 22, 2009. James Black, CAN’s Group Administrator, informed Mindfirst that a short list slate of candidate companies has been identified and qualified angel investors are being invited to participate. Formation of the group was supported by National Angel Capital Organization (NACO), the Province [...]

Noank Media Inc. Successfully Demonstrates Proprietary Digital Media Exchange in China

Prof. Terry Fisher, Paul Hoffert and Eric Priest during meetings in Beijing, 2007. Photo by Henry Vehovec.

Noank Media Inc. successfully demonstrated their proprietary digital media exchange platform at meetings in Beijing and Hong Kong in late 2007 and early 2008. The platform was developed as a solution to the world’s illegal P2P file sharing problems. [...]