Will Ma
Director, Investments at MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
Will Ma
Director, Investments at MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Director, Investments
2023 - Current
Director, Technology Banking
2022 - 2023
Head of Finance and Operations
2020 - 2022
Founded at Harvard. Backed by notable investors including BlackRock, Greylock Partners, Wing VC, and YC. Member of the senior leadership team.
Director, BMO Partners
2019 - 2020
- BMO Partners is accountable for using strategic partnerships and venture investments to help accelerate innovation and growth across BMO - Public wins and partnerships include Intuit, Google, Blend, Apple Pay, Android Pay, the R3 Blockchain consortium, SecureKey, our fintech work with the DMZ at Ryerson, 1871 Chicago and our AI and data science focus with Creative Destruction Labs Montreal
Co-Founder
2017 - 2019
- Enterprise SaaS focused on shareholder analytics - IR + digital / influencer marketing - Platform focused on helping public companies optimize their share price by understanding and attracting the right underlying investors
Vice President, Growth and Operations
2016 - 2018
- B2B SaaS FinTech backed by leading VCs including FINTOP, Luge, Inovia, Real - Plooto is a digital payments platform for small businesses across North America
Senior Manager, Sales and Distribution
2015 - 2016
- Managed retail investment sales program (roughly 800 FTE / $8bn annual sales) with a team of 5 - Led re-design and implementation of sales compensation and incentive / scorecard structure from transactional to portfolio / relationship based
Manager, Corporate Strategy - Office of Strategic Management (OSM)
2013 - 2015
- Supported Executive team and Board of Directors in the solving of complex problems and making of decisions across strategic planning, organizational effectiveness and process improvement
Investment Banking Analyst
2010 - 2013