Todd Finch is an investor, coach, and entrepreneur who's been growing innovative tech companies for over three decades with a career that's tracked the evolution of the web. Over the years, Finch has had the privilege of living and working at the leading edge of innovation and change.

He started as a tech sales guy, co-founded his first startup at 27, and three years later got the nod to start and lead Netscape Canada, the ground-breaking web browser that helped shape the early internet, Web 1.0. From there, he co-founded numerous startups and raised over $100 million in capital during his career as a startup CEO.

Having spent most of his life growing leading-edge tech businesses, Finch has witnessed a mind-blowing accelerated rate of change-change that requires a new mindset for everyone in venture. So, in 2020, he launched The Xchange Company Inc., a venture corporation committed to funding and supporting exceptional founders who believe they can make a real impact.

The Xchange has a capital lab with an inaugural evergreen fund, The Xchange Fund 1 L.P., that has actively invested in over 10 companies in its first 9 months. The company is also building a network platform to help connect the venture community in better ways to accelerate the impact individuals and teams have in bringing ideas to their highest potential.

Josh Merchant is a potent blend of sharp tech architect and compassionate businessman. With two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting companies as a tech entrepreneur, Merchant’s focus has been machine learning AI, low-latency systems, distributed platforms, operations automation and Web 3.0.

As CTO and Co-Founder for The Xchange Company (TXC), and with 7+ years M&A strategy, advisory and diligence, Merchant is a valued advisor to many of TXC’s portfolio companies. He also leads the design of the company’s internal platform, a network hub that will accelerate connections within the venture community and enable individuals and teams to expand their impact.

Merchant was formerly the SVP & CTO of Postmedia. Prior to joining the company in 2016, he Co-Founded Ampifii, a platform acquired by Postmedia that integrated the best marketing APIs into content marketing by means of attracting interest through in-stream and feed advertising. He was also the Co-Founder and architect of measure.ly and Lymbix.

With a dynamic mix of skills that range from venture capital investment and strategic business analysis to product development and HR, the straight line in Alison Purdon’s career has always been her obsession for learning, solving problems, and passion for creating efficiency where there is none.

Purdon thrives on solving challenges that have never been solved, and she does this in every aspect of her work as Director of Operations for The Xchange Company. Her magic is simplifying systems and building processes for the company and its clients, enabling teams to work more easily and faster and optimize everything they do. She’s involved in fund operations and strategy and platform productization, as well as being the one to navigate urgent internal and client operational challenges.

Although she started in HR, her insatiable curiosity led her to the venture industry. Early in her career, Purdon worked for RBC, where she gained the critical insight that: solving problems is fulfilling but can only be done when you dig in, learn as much as possible, and build solutions with people at the center. That understanding was further cemented when she pivoted to product. Working in agile labs on omnichannel client journeys sparked an interest in venture, which led to her roles with women-led innovation technology VC fund Sandpiper Ventures and, later, the Archangel Network of Funds. These experiences culminated in a unique role at MARS as Product Manager of Talent & Growth Services.

Ultimately, Purdon was drawn to the Xchange because of its position to be a founder-centric “anti-VC VC.” Over the years, she’s experienced the gaps in the Canadian venture ecosystem system. She’s witnessed how many well-intentioned organizations try to address problems but miss the mark. So now, she’s excited to be part of a new solution.

Purdon holds a Master’s degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (MBET) and a BAH in Global Development.

With her self-solve approach and desire to understand how things work, Popowich’s dynamic background makes her one of those linchpin people who can do almost anything.

She is currently completing her undergraduate in Biochemistry at the University of Waterloo and is excited to pursue her Masters of Systems Design. In 2022, she received a research grant to make alternative protein out of microorganisms using food waste. Concurrently, Popowich works full-time for venture capital firm, The Xchange Company, where she supports with fund due diligence, platform design, and building performance training materials for startup CEOs and executive teams.

Popowich’s fearless figure-it-out attitude has led to diverse opportunities that range from starting and running a successful business at 17-years old to; expediting her high school journey to exit early and; living on an Iberian wolf sanctuary in Portugal to support conservation efforts. She is particularly proud of her side business, a swim school that offers 1-on-1 swimming lessons for children with learning disabilities.

Her current focus is to continue exploring how biotech can be used to solve problems, as well as, learn more about biomedical sciences, including the role that stem cells play in regenerative medicine. At the same time, she continues to concentrate on growing her business brain with her work in venture. Ultimately, with these two lenses combined, Popowich envisions her future as a researcher, businesswoman, and educator. She sees a need for more scientists today to not only teach what they know but frame it so information is easily accessible. It’s what she continually strives to do now and into the future.

Eman Enain is committed to enabling people to make better decisions with data. It's a conviction that surfaced and was strengthened over the years in her work as a product manager, working with teams that had comprehensive data but an inability to systemize, synthesize and use the information to their advantage.

Enain is a data scientist with a background in computer engineering, distributed computing, and wireless telecommunications. As product manager for The Xchange, she currently co-leads the development of the company's network platform, which will connect the venture industry in smarter ways and give startups better access to the exceptional people they need to move ideas forward at speed and scale. She is also responsible for overseeing many projects for The Xchange portfolio of companies.

In her early career days, Enain worked as a Java software developer and data architect and was one of the first team members to plan and build an application for Canada Borders to audit commercial goods entering the country. After building, testing, and training teams to roll out national auditing software, Enain moved to a role in the private sector as a business analyst and product manager for expense reporting software.

All these experiences taught Enain that if you give people the right data, they can see patterns and make more accurate predictions. She understands how crucial data is in enabling companies to make intelligent decisions—whether used to launch new products, build a new company, or innovate. And so, it’s a lens she brings to everything she does, and in her work with The Xchange.

Adam King loves to support, work with, and learn from innovative thinkers. For as long as he can remember, he's admired inventors and founders who control their destinies and sacrifice to pursue their beliefs.

King's desire to learn how ideas become successful businesses is as strong as his passion for working with numbers. It's why he became an investment analyst within the venture industry.

As a Venture Analyst for The Xchange Company, King uses a potent combo of analytical and people skills. He is currently focused on developing and implementing new structures for the company to easily and thoroughly assess investment opportunities that incorporate big-picture trends with the human side of business. King also actively supports deal sourcing and portfolio management activities.

Before joining Xchange, King was a Consultant for Capco where he advised financial services companies across strategic engagements in the asset management and payments domains. He has also completed internships at Sun Life Global Investments, a global asset manager with more than $50B AUM, and at BlueRock in Australia, an entrepreneurial advisory firm. King graduated with an HBA from the Ivey Business School.

In an industry perceived as transactional and self-serving, King loves that he can operate as a trusted guide for entrepreneurs through his work. For him, no business is just about the dollars and cents. It's about the partnership experience. So today, what he enjoys most is helping businesses grow along with the people who run them.

Glenn Rumbell brings almost 30 years of business law experience, a background running a distinguished top legal firm and passion for helping startups to the Xchange Company as the company’s Legal Counsel.

Since the early 1990s, Rumbell has forged a successful and varied career as a lawyer, entrepreneur and investor in Canada’s legal, investment and technology industries. In addition to his deep legal insights, Rumbell is known for putting his clients first, and for explaining complex legal terms in clear language.

Rumbell's legal advice ranges from corporate structuring, to venture capital and angel financing, to shareholder agreements, technology licensing, professional services agreements, and buying and selling businesses.

Andrew Mitri is a swiss-army knife with deep financial expertise and an infectious desire to deliver value. Employing a multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving, Mitri embraces concepts across capital, investment, and operations and integrates internal and external perspectives to build human-centered solutions for pressing business problems.

As the Director of Finance & Operations for The Xchange Company, Mitri is the rope between our leadership team, bridging the gap between vision and value. With a knack for numbers and an uncanny ability to activate the right people, he is currently focused on building and iterating on The Xchange Company’s business model, driving the company forward with smart business decisions.

In the early days of his career, Mitri built small businesses from the ground up. He learned how to generate business and take ownership. After a decade in the corporate world, with stints at Collier & FirstService, where he grew businesses through acquisitions, and KPMG, where he worked on complex transactions, Mitri found himself looking for the opportunity to surface his entrepreneurial skills and creative mindset.

For Mitri, business starts with humans. So, with The Xchange, he’s excited to change not only the way venture operates but also the way society views value, values, and valuation.