Steven Joanis is a Managing Director on the Software Growth Equity (SGE) team at Bow River Capital.

Prior to joining Bow River & Vitruvi Software's Board, Steve was the CEO and member of the board of directors at PlanetiQ, Inc., a satellite weather prediction company. Steve was responsible for the company’s business and financial operations including technology development, business development and sales.  Prior to PlanetiQ, Steve ran three other venture-backed startups, was a partner at three investment firms, and was a strategy consultant.  

In addition to his 25+ year career in technology, Steve was an officer and pilot in the U.S. Army’s air cavalry.  Steve serves on the boards of directors of Vitruvi, Xima and Xyleme. Steve earned a BS in Economics from The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an MBA in Information Technology from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Doctorate in Finance and Business Analytics from the Heider College of Business of Creighton University.

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President and Chief Executive Officer at AFL, where he’s built an impressive track record of results and growth over the past 35 years. Elected to Fujikura Ltd.’s Board of Directors at their Annual Shareholders meeting in Tokyo.

Actively involved in a number of civic organizations, including the Upstate Alliance and United Way Honored with the South Carolina Ambassador for Economic Development in 2015 and United Way of the Piedmont’s Chairman’s Award in 2011.

Bryan brings a wealth of experience to the design and construction of local access fiber networks and general telecom outside plant construction management.

Career highlights include leading the project management team responsible for deploying the first private GPON network in North America (2006 to 2008), as well as designing and building one of Canada’s first brownfield, municipally owned, FTTP networks, in Olds, Alberta (2012).

Prior to founding Vitruvi, Bryan spent 3 years overseeing a 400 person engineering, construction and procurement team, responsible for the deployment of local access fiber networks passing more than 300K premises.

Bryan earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta.

Zouheir brings over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and currently serves as CTO at Cogeco Communications. As a seasoned industry executive, Zouheir has lived many of the problems experienced by CSPs in building essential infrastructure to connect the world.

Prior to joining Cogeco's executive team, Zouheir spent 13 years at TELUS. He first served as vice president responsible for commercializing technology and, later, he led the National Broadband Implementation (planning, engineering, and construction) fulfilling the investment of $4B in access fiberin frastructure deployment, connecting more than 2 million homes and businesses.

Zouheir holds a Maîtrise ès Sciences Mathématiques from Université Pierre etMarie Curie, Paris, and M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in mathematics from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.

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Andrew Schremp is a Director on Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity team. In this role, Andrew is responsible for managing all stages of the investment process from transaction through portfolio management and exit.

Prior to joining Bow River Capital & Vitruvi's board, Andrew was the Founder and CEO of Health Sqyre, Inc., a digital health tech company that was acquired by a leading strategic player. Prior to founding Health Sqyre, Andrew provided advisory and consulting services and served as Vice President at Easy Breathe, a D2C tech company. Before his career as an entrepreneur, Andrew was a Partner and Vice President at Creation Capital Partners, a private equity firm, where he was responsible for strategic platform and bolt-on acquisitions and the growth and development of the fund’s portfolio companies.

Andrew began his career as an Investment Banking Associate at Wells Fargo Securities where he was responsible for executing M&A and public financing transactions. Andrew serves of the board of directors for AbsenceSoft, Vitruvi, and Xima. Andrew earned a BA in Economics from Amherst College.

With over 30  years of senior operations and international legal experience, Eric served as Vitruvi’s Chief Operating Officer from June 2020 to December 2021. As Chief Corporate Development Officer (January 2022), Eric will bring extensive legal and commercial experience in business development, partnerships, corporate governance and M&A matters in accelerating Fresnel's growth into adjacent market verticals.

As a previous member of Senior Executive Leadership Teams at both Nexen Inc. and Agrium Inc., Eric led significant global expansion initiatives.

Eric holds an MBA and Juris Doctor (J.D.) from York University, as well as ICD.D designations.

Brody has spent the last 10 years leading teams focused on software product development, sales and consulting, providing services to energy companies, enabling them to assess, optimize and focus on corporate strategies, with a specific product focus on developing a technical modeling environment to address unconventional oil and gas planning.

Brody has successfully delivered software solutions in academics, construction, business operations and network infrastructure and has a PhD in Engineering Management from the University of Alberta.

For the past 15 years, Bruno has built enterprise software solutions for diverse companies world-wide, with a primary focus on leading development teams in the past 10 years.

His career began at Microsoft after graduating from the University of Buenos Aires with an MSc. Computer Science. He then moved to the UK for an opportunity to work with Tesco.com, the largest online retailer in the UK. He then moved into the finance industry.

Justin has spent 15+ years in international consulting and business development between North America, United Kingdom, and China.

Most recently, Justin led the expansion of a Deloitte Fast 50 SaaS company into Western Canada and United States markets. Success in developing effective channel partnerships and direct market solution - sales initiatives, Justin’s teams secured multiple Fortune 100 Enterprise clients and disrupted the technology SaaS market.

With a Masters in International Management and further post-graduate certifications from Stanford University, Justin has brought creative solutions to complex business and sales environments.

Rob has spent the last 15+ years in the Enterprise Software Industry. The first 7 years were spent on the services side of the business, leading teams and working with large multi-national companies. These included managing multi-million dollar budgets and overseeing double digit growth in the services business.

Rob then took the skills he developed listening to his clients and spent the following 5 years as a Product Manager overseeing a Portfolio of enterprise software products.

Rob has a bachelor of Science (Advanced) with majors in Physics and Math, from Sydney University, and Honours 1st Class in Physics.

Jessica has been developing solutions for both entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 ventures for the past 18 years.

Her background and experience are the intersection of Product, UX, and Leadership. Jessica serves as a Certified Agile Coach and has extensive experience with establishing operating practices for Product Design, Development Lifecycles, and Agile Methodologies.

Jessica has a track record of solving complex problems, and leading teams through hyper-growth. She’s shipped hundreds of products, web and mobile applications including the largest Website Platform Migration in eCommerce history at Zappos-Amazon. She holds an MS in Information Technology.

Allan started his career in the pharmaceutical industry before transitioning to energy services, where he has spent the last 12 years.

Allan is a designated CPA with over 10 years in various leadership roles and is experienced in operational finance, budgeting, internal audits, working capital management, and financial reporting. Allan has a proven track record in driving organizational optimization and process improvements within large teams to manage working capital and enhance customer service.

Tracy is a Human Resources Leader with over 20 years of experience providing practical, results-oriented HR solutions across several industries. She is adept at developing and executing HR strategies, programs and change processes that drive business results and build a productive and engaged workforce. Tracy has a passion for partnering with leadership and operations to optimize the workplace experience.
Tracy holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, the Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) designation and is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and past President of Airdrie Food Bank Board of Directors.

Lance is an accomplished multi-discipline professional with extensive experience bringing teams, products, and markets together to create and grow repeatable success. Lance brings 30 years of perspective, helping discover and deliver first-of-their-kind solutions in software, infrastructure, and systems.

Lance serves our customers with his diverse start-up, government, and Fortune10 experience in industries of telecom services design, critical infrastructure construction, bond financing, patented security innovations, government technology adoption, AI/ML based innovations, and at-scale immersive environments, to name a few.

Lance brings a proven track-record leading global groups, with disparate stakeholders, through technology market/segment creation, digital transformation engineering, and consulting. He spends much of his spare time mentoring executives and aspiring leaders.

For over 10 years prior to joining Vitruvi, Kirk worked in the deployment of OSP infrastructure. Starting with the first private Gigabit network in Canada, he took part in all phases from survey and drafting to civil construction and cable placing. Later he went on to serve as a Director Construction at AFL and managed Telus’ first large scale brownfield FTTH deployment in a Tier-1 city, helping Telus achieve some of the highest premise delivery and quality scores in the program’s history.

Mike is a multi-disciplinary designer who brings 10 years of experience spanning the fields of architecture, industrial design, and product design. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Master of Design degree, has managed multi-million dollar construction projects, and is well-versed at coordinating large groups of stakeholders.

Mike has a passion for creating high quality products and experiences. He pairs a practical, hands-on mentality with open-ended curiosity to achieve this goal.

Tricia brings over 10 years of Project Management and implementation experience. Her background and experience is an intersection of law, public policy, project management and continuous improvement. She worked as a Program Manager and Project Controller for 5 years in telecom and helped Vitruvi's beta launch on a fiber construction project in South Carolina. Tricia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law (University of Calgary), and attended the Simon Fraser University School of Public Policy.

Sean O’Connell is a Senior Associate on Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity team and part of the Board of Directors at Vitruvi Software.

In this role, Sean is responsible for originating, structuring, executing and managing software investments. Sean currently serves on the boards of Vitruvi, HRSoft, ProductPlan, and Xyleme.

Prior to working at Bow River Capital, Sean was an Associate at JMP Securities in San Francisco where he was a member of the Technology Investment Banking group.

He started his professional career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Business Capital. Sean graduated from Bryant University with a BSBA in Finance & Applied Analytics.

Joe brings over 17 years of experience in utility construction and project management, including leadership roles at Ledcor and 360networks.
He has C-suite experience with both EPCs and asset owners in the telecom industry.

Before joining Vitruvi, he was a part of rMark Bio (B2B enterprise SaaS company) where he led the corporate and financial operations. Joe brings a high level of expertise in process improvement, business analytics, and negotiations that drive positive business results.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Joe brings over 17 years of experience in utility construction and project management, including leadership roles at Ledcor and 360networks.
He has C-suite experience with both EPCs and asset owners in the telecom industry.

Before joining Vitruvi, he was a part of rMark Bio (B2B enterprise SaaS company) where he led the corporate and financial operations. Joe brings a high level of expertise in process improvement, business analytics, and negotiations that drive positive business results.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from the University of Washington.