Rainer Paduch Co-Founder Ottawa Angel Alliance Ottawa, Ontario

Rainer Paduch has a proven and successful track record as a serial entrepreneur, leader and manager.  Rainer has 28 years of in-depth business management and team building experience as well as expertise in software design, telecommunications and data networking. Rainer is currently a local Ottawa angel investor, founder of the Band of Scoundrels Investment Partnership and a co-founder of the Ottawa Angel Alliance.  He is also Chairman of start-up Pinpoint Selling, Chairman of start-up Recognia, a Director of venture exchange company Intouch Survey Systems as well as having served on the Advisory Board of the Entrepreneurship Center of Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI).

Rainer was most recently a venture partner at Novacap, a Montreal based venture capital firm investing in early stage technology start-ups and later stage operating companies.  Prior to that he was also a co-founder of Coventus Inc, a service provider developing offerings for the business traveler while on the road or in conference centers and hotels. 

Rainer was the founder of iSTAR Internet Inc. where he served as President, Chief Technology Officer and Vice Chairman. He successfully led iSTAR from start-up to rapid growth and through IPO. Under his leadership and technical expertise, company sales rose to $40 million annual rate. He also led a team that raised $76 million during the early development stages of the company. In February 1998, PSINet Inc acquired iSTAR.  He was also an investor in and a Director of Milkyway Networks another Ottawa based start-up that achieved a successful IPO.

Over the course of his career, Rainer has held senior-level positions including Vice President of Technology at fONOROLA Inc., Director Application Engineering at Newbridge Networks Corp. and co-founder and Vice President Engineering at Enfin Technologies Inc. Rainer held technical positions at Mitel Corp., EDS-Systemhouse Ltd., and Canadian Marconi Ltd. He holds an Honors Bachelor of Engineering and a Masters of Engineering from McGill University in Montreal.

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