

Owen Matthews
Owen is a successful technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the Managing Partner at the Emend Vision Fund, a General Partner at Wesley Clover and Chairman of the Alacrity Foundation. He created a successful startup while in university that ended up listed on Nasdaq. He created Alacrity Canada, which has founded companies in western Canada with shareholder values in excess of a billion dollars.
Owen is a successful technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the Managing Partner at the Emend Vision Fund, a General Partner at Wesley Clover and Chairman of the Alacrity Foundation. Owen formed a company (Newheights) while studying computer sciences and psychology at the University of Victoria. Newhights grew into the publicly listed company Counterpath with over $12M USD in revenue and a peak market capitalization of $110M. Upon Leaving Counterpath management, he joined his family office Wesley Clover. Owen was tasked with creating a technology portfolio in western Canada with limited resources. He created the Alacrity model, where recent grads received government grants to create technology companies. The recent graduates would work with the Wesley Clover team, partners and existing portfolio companies to identify known quantifiable customer demand and rapidly develop products to meet that demand. The Alacrity Canada program has resulted in over $692.4 Million in inbound investment and $462.2 Million in export revenue for Canada. Alacrity Canada has generated shareholder value in excess of a billion dollars. Alacrity Canada has expanded its approach and helped thousands of businesses in western Canada land customers, attract investment and connect with foreign markets. The innovative program created by Owen has been expanded by Wesley Clover into regional funds around the world. The UK, France, India, Mexico and Turkey all have programs based on the Alacrity mode