James Wallace

CEO & Co-Chair

James Wallace (JW) is a tech startup enthusiast, lean practitioner, agile evangelist, social change agent and perpetual traveller. As Co-Founder of Exponential Group, he surrounds himself with a steady stream of incredible founders and startups. James is dedicated to enabling infinite scale by architecting exponential enterprises and supporting entrepreneurs in figuring out ways to build better businesses and deliver more value to their users. JW works and creates like he lives life: with purpose. He values people and places, not things. He prefers insights and ideas over rigid beliefs or opinions. His default mode: Innovate, bootstrap and stay agile.

James Tonn

Co-Chair

James Tonn (JT) is an entrepreneur dedicated to supporting disruptive founders and utilizing exponential technologies to solve the world’s biggest challenges. A seasoned entrepreneur with a knack for scale, he cofounded his first company in 2012 and scaled to nine figures in just five years. As Co-Founder of Exponential Group, James acts as a hub of connection, bringing together the world’s best founders, advisors, and investors to launch impact-driven projects.

Chris Seguin

Chief Operating Officer

Chris Seguin is the Chief Operating Officer of Exponential Ventures. Chris values operational excellence, a people-focused company culture and team collaboration. With over 25 years of experience in leadership, event management, software design and logistics, Chris is fueled by creating efficient and creatively open work environments. From concept development, budgeting and strategic planning through to execution, his expertise was integral in the success of some of the world’s most influential events, including World Youth Day (Toronto & Cologne), NBC Olympic program (Athens), Coca-Cola FIFA World Cup Program (Cologne). When working as VP of Green Living, Chris played a key role in developping and organizing the largest environmental consumer show in North America. He also built out an eco-friendly-focussed event planning service arm for the company.

Julia Cheeatow

Executive Assistant

Julia is an efficient and energetic administrator with a proven track record in executive support and logistical planning. She is an expert at juggling and navigating competing priorities and has the ability to manage and respond to all types of personalities. Julia is also skilled in project management, as well as the conception, development and delivery of events.

Steven McClurg

Chief Investment Officer

Steven McClurg was a managing director at Galaxy Digital, through the acquisition of his previous company, Theseus Capital, where he was a founding partner and CEO/CIO. McClurg started his asset management career at Guggenheim Partners, where he was managing director and portfolio manager, including oversight of Emerging Markets and Sovereign Credit.

Leah Wald

Head of Research & Portfolio Manager

Leah is a development economist, technology entrepreneur and financial analyst who loves working with mission-driven teams to create a positive impact in the world through socially conscious investments. She is currently the VP of Portfolio Management at Exponential Capital.

Jaime Iusso

Director of Relationships

Jaime Iusso is the Director of Relationships of Exponential Group. Jaime has an innate gift for compassion, where listening has been her main superpower in fueling and solidifying relationships. With over 25 years of customer relations experience in sales and operations roles, she has added analytics and strategy to the relationships' dimension, allowing the optimization of partnerships within organizations. Helping and connecting people is her passion and she believes that everyone is only a few degrees apart. By making that connection, we are all able to level up as a society/tribe, allowing a future of meaningful living.

Sunny Durante

Marketing

With a strong entrepreneurial background and knack for creating clarity Sunny loves to lean on his superpowers of strategy, communication, and influence to further the Exponential Ventures mission and create meaningful living for everyone on the planet.

Cory Marchasin

Head of Ventures

Cory Marchasin is a believer; in people, in ideas, and in the story of humanity. He has been an advisor, coach, founder, an investor, a fly fishing guide and a CEO. His initial role as COO and founding team member of PayLock IPT resulted in his eventual tenure as CEO and the development of a platform that realized billions of US dollars for their municipal clients. Cory was a Bitcoin early adopter and has since been actively participating in related communities, projects, and the funding of forward thinkers . A student of philosophy and comparative religion, Cory believes that no incentive system can compete with real love, and he strives to imbue as much of the holistic “good stuff” into every business dealing and process he engages with.

Terry Roy

Executive Assistant to James Wallace

Terry joined ExV in 2019 to provide support to a serial entrepreneur with a Passion and Purpose to create a meaningful living for everyone on the planet. Her strong ability to multi-task and prioritize projects, while being highly organized with high attention to detail is a true asset. She is a problem solver by nature who has a need to creatively help others overcome challenging obstacles. Working alongside the ExV team to coordinate strategy development and implementation, Terry's passion is fueled by ExV's mission of Architecting the New World.

Josh Hurwitz

Head of Markets

Josh Hurwitz is the head of Markets of Exponential. He joined Exponential after working as the Chief Operations Officer of Hyperion Technology Inc., an early-stage digital security trading firm.

A corporate lawyer by profession, Josh began his career at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP where he executed millions of dollars worth of corporate restructuring, M&A and early stage financing transactions. He then worked as an executive at the Travel Edge Group (a travel technology company) where, alongside the founding team, he bootstrapped the company to 30% YOY growth and $130m in annual sales. He holds an HBA/JD from the Ivey Business School/Western Law School, and a Master’s from the University of Cambridge.

Kyle Fry

President

Kyle Fry is the President of Exponential. He joined Exponential after seeing the evolution of the digital securities landscape and identifying a clear need for an integrated firm.

Prior to his role at Exponential, Kyle was President & Chief Financial Officer of MLG Blockchain. Prior to that, Kyle spent almost 10 years at Credit Suisse in the M&A group focusing on technology clients and transactions predominately in FinTech and payments. Kyle announced over $70 billion in transactions having led numerous deals from initial engagement to closing. Kyle is also involved in various blockchain network groups such as Columbia Blockchain Alliance (CBA).

John Pinto

Market Development

John joined Exponential in 2019 as a Director of Markets. Prior to joining Exponential he was working as the Corporate Development Manager at Hyperion Technology Inc., an early-stage digital security trading firm. Previously, Jonathan worked in investment banking at CIBC Capital Markets where he advised on M&A and financing transactions. He graduated with distinction from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Business Administration degree.

Brian Leiberman

Relationships

Brian Leiberman leads relationships at Exponential. Before joining Exponential Brian was the COO at MLG Blockchain, the Head of Business Development and Operations at Guiker.com and an Operations Manager at Sonder.com. Brian is also an advisor to the Holt Fintech fund and holds a Bsc from McGill University.

Neil Harounian

Portfolio Lead

Neil is a VP at Exponential focusing on portfolio success. Prior to his role at Exponential, Neil led corporate development out of New York City for a consulting firm focusing on early stage blockchain startups. Neil started his career out of university at RBC Capital Markets in the Leveraged Finance group focusing on large cap leveraged buyouts. Neil graduated with honors from NYU’s Stern School of Business with a major in Finance.

Dave Mirynech

Investment Analysis

Dave leads investment analysis. Prior to his role at Exponential, Dave led research and was the first employee at MLG Blockchain, an advisory firm, focusing on early stage blockchain startups. Dave also spends time on the Board of Advisors at the Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab and collaborating with the Blockchain Research Institute, placing his efforts understanding the intersection between blockchain and capital markets.

Dave graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in Information Technology and a second degree in finance at the Richard Ivey School of Business. At Western, he spearheaded the growth of fintech by founding the Blockchain Education Network and serving as the President of Ivey FIntech.