Elisabeth Laett

Managing Partner

2020 - Current

The Holt legacy began with Sir Herbert Holt, who emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1873. When he arrived to Montreal, he focused much of his energy on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Soon, Holt switched gears to become a pioneer developer in Quebec’s emerging energy industry. Along with a partner, he founded the Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company, now known as Hydro-Quebec. He served as the Royal Bank of Canada’s President from 1908 to 1934, and remained a board member until his passing in 1941. His business acumen and wide array of expertise led him to become one of the most powerful influencers in the development of Canada’s modern economy. In his time, he wanted to ensure that prosperity would be preserved for his family for generations to come. One of Canada's Most Active Early-Stage VC Funds. Supported through five generations of experience and a robust global network, Holt Xchange is powering innovative tech products, world-class companies, and entrepreneurs, helping shape the future of their businesses and technology in the financial services sector.

Investor

2022

Investor, Board observer

2022

Managing Partner

2009

Xaphan Group is an international team of hands-on angel investors with a broad range of professional and industry experience who provide start-up and early-stage companies with knowledge and financial capital to maximize their potential for success.

VP Business Development, Seed Investor

2015 - 2020

By focusing on the why, the when and the how of financial decision making, we’ve created a highly effective behavioral based relationship manager which engages and convinces people to take specific financial action in their best interests. Founded by a team of industry veterans and investor-backed, Exagens is dedicated to removing the digital separation between financial institutions and their customers. Advanced artificial intelligence, behavioral analytics, and machine-learning technologies enable the autonomous personal financial assistant to learn and understand the specifics of each client, and respond in real time, with contextually engaging, pertinent and actionable assistance, tips and guidance. It makes each interaction with a financial institution more convenient, individualized, and memorable resulting in increased loyalty, customer satisfaction and improved financial results. The future of digital banking is proactive, friendly and useful. The future of digital banking is exagens.

Board member, seed investor

2010 - 2016

IntellaCare Inc - Providing intelligent behavioral monitoring through the use of depth map based 3D Motion Capture

Global Account Management

2006 - 2009

Global Industry Manager Film and Video Software Alias Wavefront

2004 - 2006

Alias is the leading provider of 3D graphics technology and services for the film, video games, web, interactive media, automotive,industrial design, education and visualization markets. It's software Maya was awarded an academy award. The company was formed in 1995 when Silicon Graphics bought Alias Research and Wavefront Technologies. It was acquired by Accel-KKR from and the Ontario Teachers pension plan in June 2004 for 57.1 million. It was sold in 2006 to Autodesk for$182 million.

Vice President worldwide sales

2001 - 2003

Over 28 years, Softimage 3D software has helped produce groundbreaking visual effects from Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs to the sensual robots of Bjork’s All Is Full Of Love music video. Founded by Daniel Langlois, it has been owned by three large corporations – Microsoft, Avid and, most recently, Autodesk. During the time that Avid ran Softimage as a separate P/L, I was responsible to build out the team as well as the success plan to drive the WW revenue plan for the division.

Director Channel Development- Softimage Division

1998 - 2001

After the acquisition of the Microsoft Softimage Division by AVID I was responsible to insure an effective transition into AVID's WW sales and channel strategy Developed and executed WW sales and channel training programs to improve channel efficiency and drive bottom line increase in sales closing ability Provided regular monthly analysis to senior management on worldwide channel performance, formulated conclusions and developed recommendations for sales and other groups on how to improve channel results and business relationships Expanded channel with new two-tier strategies, and worked with domestic and international sales to identify and recruit appropriate channel partners Worked with Product Marketing to recommend the development and delivery of channel-support tools for effective selling

Global Channel Manager

1996 - 1998

Reporting to Director WW Sales Responsible to build the marketing programs and business management processes for successful recruitment, management and on-going support of the reseller channel worldwide for the introduction of Microsoft's new product range in the editing space Built WW secure reseller Intranet which transformed a paper/fax-based communication system into an interactive internet-based communication system which brought a direct one-one marketing relationship with the sales channel Designed and implemented WW lead fulfillment system that cost effectively distributed sales information to prospects Developed on-going reseller training programs and major training events with an average of over 500 attendees at these events Designed and developed lead collection and management system that justified marketing budget and translated into sales forecast requirements