Jean Grenon

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Mr. Jean Grenon is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner of NexTFund Capital. He serves as Board Member at Intellisports. He served as a Board Member at Algolux. He serves as Chairman at FlyScan Systems. He serves as Fund Manager at i4 Capital. He brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. After a stint with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris and Boston, he worked for over 20 years in the wireless equipment industry in the US for technology innovators such as M/A.COM and California Microwave and start-ups such as Technical Communications Corporation, Microwave Radio Corporation, and Innova Corporation. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NexTFund Capital in 2003, He was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led following its listing on the NASDAQ in 1999. He has focused for the last 15 years on angel investing in technology, primarily in Canada. He has invested in and exited a number of companies such as Elliptic Technologies, Optosecurity, Ticksmith, LandR via secondaries or an outright company sale. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and holds a Harvard Business School MBA. He sits on the board of several innovation-driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.