Andrew Waitman Managing Partner Celtic House Venture Partners Ottawa, Canada

Andrew Waitman is Managing Partner of Celtic House Venture Partners, a private venture capital firm with headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Celtic House is a leading investor in early-stage technology companies in North America and Europe with more than US$500 million under management. Celtic House is actively investing its third fund of US$225 million in semiconductors, systems and software start-ups.

Mr. Waitman currently sits on the boards of Ottawa based companies dna13, Fidus Systems, ModaSolutions, Overlay.TV, Third Brigade and TrialStat in addition to the boards of Got Corporation and NoHold. He is also an observer Board member at Diablo Technologies and a limited partner and an advisory board member of Genesys Capital. Mr. Waiman also sits on the non-profit board of Shad Valley.

Mr. Waitman has been involved in over 75 technology start-ups and has served on the boards of more than 25 start-ups in Canada, the United States and the UK, including: Abatis Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), Avesta Technologies (acquired by Visual Networks), BlueArc, FastLane Technologies (acquired by Quest Software), OctigaBay Systems (acquired by Cray), OLAP@work (acquired by Business Objects), Orchestream (IPO on LSE), PixStream (acquired by Cisco Systems), Sandvine (IPO on AIM/TSX) , Memsic (IPO on NASDAQ) and Ubiquity Software (IPO on AIM).

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