Will Ma

Early Stage VC at MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF)

Toronto, Ontario

Education

Work Experience

  • Director, Investments

    2023

2022 - 2023

  • Director, Technology Banking

    2022 - 2023

2020 - 2022

  • 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

BHRD (YC18)

2017 - 2019

  • 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

2016 - 2018

  • 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

2010 - 2013

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2010 - 2013