Frank
Leffelaar
Executive in Residence
Frank advises early-stage companies in Agrifood Tech on business and go to market strategy and supports them on their journey to get investment ready.
For the past 10 years, he has been actively involved in the innovation ecosystem. As a mentor at New Ventures BC, an active investor with eFund, a BC-based Angel Fund that invested in 40+ BC technology ventures, as a leadership team member at the VANTEC Angel Network, BC’s largest Angel investor community that hosts monthly investor pitch meetings.
At Foresight Canada I enjoy the opportunity to support Agritech founders who are solving some of the most challenging problems in agriculture with transformative innovation and as an eco-system supporter and connector at Foresight agriNEXT.
Prior to advising and mentoring early-stage companies Frank provided marketing strategy and services to SME’s with his agency Crush Marketing. He held senior marketing positions with high-tech SME’s in Canada and US Fortune 500 companies in Europe. He studied at the European Business School in London, lived and worked in 5 countries and enjoys traveling and exploring the wine regions of the world.