The Pillar Team
Messages from the Pillar Team:
“Workplace is an essential part of the corporate culture. We help organizations from incubation, to scale and beyond, make intelligent real estate decisions. Real estate is usually an organization's second-highest cost behind people – we help technology companies at every stage understand how to navigate market dynamics and availability, understand complex documentation and strategically negotiate with market savvy property owners.”
- Justin Mayerchak, Senior Vice President and Partner at Colliers (Calgary)
Messages from the Pillar Team:
“Evans Hunt has a long history supporting the growth of Calgary businesses and the economic development of the city. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we have hard-earned personal experience in the challenges associated with starting and growing a business, and as marketers we are laser-focused on helping others succeed.”
- Dan Evans, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Evans Hunt
"KPMG has been a trusted advisor to technology companies in Calgary for many years, and we do not only want to continue to fulfill that role, but we also want to contribute to growing the tech and innovation community in the city.”
- Reinier Deurwaarder, Partner at KPMG
“Our primary objective is to assist with the growth of commercial real estate markets around the globe. Specific to Calgary the best way to do that is to encourage and assist with the burgeoning tech sector as this is our main hope to get our economy back on track.”
- Greg Kwong, Regional Managing Director at CBRE
“At Pixeltree we increase the accessibility of startup founders to technical resources and build the local tech talent by watering the roots of our own community. Building connections between entrepreneurs and the developer community will tighten the fabric of the tech ecosystem, and help ensure that technical talent coming up in Calgary puts their roots down here and stay.”
- Serene Yew, Director of Technology, Pixeltree
“Blakes has a long history of supporting emerging and growth-stage companies across Canada. These companies have unprecedented access to top talent, capital and other business resources, including Nitro Powered by Blakes. As one of Canada’s oldest law firms, we take great pride in working with Canadian entrepreneurs and international innovation leaders, supporting their businesses and strengthening their place in the global economy. Nitro will provide top-tier legal advice at pivotal moments in the development of these companies. We want to be there to see new companies succeed. We will do this by providing exceptional work supervised by experienced people. That’s the Nitro promise.”
- Brock Gibson, Chair of Blakes
Messages from the Pillar Team:
“Fasken is committed to the Emerging Technology sector. We’re breaking new ground as the only full-service law firm with in-house Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR), whose focus is working with entrepreneurs, early-stage and growth-stage companies to provide strategic input as they move through various stages of corporate formation, strategy, validation and growth. We’re deeply involved in the startup community partnering with some of the most prominent incubators, accelerators, universities and private/public research programs in North America to aid next-generation Canadian entrepreneurs.”
- Clarke Barnes, Managing Partner, Fasken (Calgary)
Messages from the Pillar Team:
“With a robust financing ecosystem, one of the world’s most highly educated workforces and a wealth of passionate entrepreneurs, Canada’s tech businesses are well-positioned to capitalize on these opportunities. However, to really benefit, tech entrepreneurs also need to overcome major challenges, such as a growing shortage of qualified workers. BDC is pleased to join Platform Calgary as a Pillar Team Member and help Calgary’s tech startups and scale-ups succeed. Partnering with Platform Calgary means we can provide insight but also start, build, scale and grow more companies that fuel innovation in Canada”.
- Dwayne Dulmage, Vice-President and National Lead, Technology at BDC