Building the future of digital entertainment and interactive media

Guillaume Thérien is a seasoned entertainment executive and operator with deep roots in media, marketing, and emerging entertainment-tech. A lifelong music fanatic, Guillaume began his career at Sony Music in sales and marketing before moving to Mosaic, where he led award-winning North American brand campaigns for Diageo, AB InBev (Labatt), TD Bank, Rogers, SiriusXM, and AutoTrader.

He later served as Director of Sales & Marketing at the Opéra de Montréal, and held senior executive roles at media broadcaster TVA Group and comedy giant Just for Laughs, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and contributed to the company's sale to ICM Partners and Bell Media. As a business operator, Guillaume has led successful digital transformation initiatives and the development of new revenue streams across traditional and modern media organizations.

He also launched and led the Zú incubator as General Manager under Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté's family office, Lune Rouge, focusing on early-stage startups at the intersection of entertainment, media, and technology. This experience gave Guillaume a front-row seat to the challenges and ambitions of early-stage founders—sharpening his ability to assess founding teams, business models, and market timing in the creative and entertainment-tech space. It also reinforced his strengths in building ecosystems, developing deal flow strategies, and assembling powerful networks of mentors, domain experts, professional services, and investors around early-stage founders to accelerate their growth.

Guillaume currently serves on the board of Société de la Place des Arts, one of North America's largest performing arts centers. He brings a rare blend of entertainment-tech domain expertise, marketing-to-business operating experience, and strong industry relationships across media, creative, and cultural sectors—making him a hands-on partner who understands how to build brands, audiences, and revenue engines from the inside out.

Guillaume holds a degree in Management and Business with a specialization in Finance from HEC Montréal.

Bertrand Nepveu is a successful entrepreneur and spatial computing pioneer with a zero-to-one mindset and a deeply entrepreneurial approach to technology and business. He is best known as the founder of Vrvana—a venture-backed mixed-reality hardware company and creator of the award-winning headset "Totem," which earned Tom's Hardware Best in Show at CES 2017. Originally focused on VR gaming, Bertrand led Vrvana's evolution into a cutting-edge mixed reality company, culminating in its acquisition by Apple in 2017. His core innovations—including the use of FPGA (field-programmable gate array) technology for real-time image processing and the reality knob for seamless mixed reality blending—are now foundational to the Apple Vision Pro.

Following the acquisition, Bertrand and his team continued at Apple for several years, advancing the original product vision and pushing the boundaries of spatial computing adoption at scale. He brings deep technical expertise, strong ties across the XR ecosystem, and a proven founder mindset. His strategic superpowers span hardware-to-enterprise scaling, engineering leadership, and a high-impact network across Silicon Valley and global tech. Having built and scaled a VC-backed startup from inception through a major exit, Bertrand brings a firsthand understanding of the founder journey—from fundraising and investor management to aligning the interests of entrepreneurs, co-investors, and limited partners—that now shapes his perspective and edge as an investor.

Beyond his operating experience, Bertrand is an active angel investor in hardware and deep tech, backing founders at the earliest stages where technical conviction matters most. He is also a limited partner in funds such as Coatue, Mighty Capital, and TandemLaunch—giving him continuous exposure to frontier technologies, emerging market dynamics, and the pattern recognition that comes from seeing deal flow across multiple stages and geographies.

Bertrand sits on the board of Quebec's quantum computing cluster and holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke and an MBA from HEC Montréal.

Charles Sylvestre brings over 25 years of experience spanning venture capital, private equity, and institutional investment, with a deep focus on technology, media, and telecom (TMT) sectors.

Charles began his financial career at Telesystem Argo before taking on roles as legal counsel and investor at Novacap. He then served as Senior Director and Vice President of Investments at Fonds de solidarité FTQ—one of Canada's largest pension funds—where he led transactions across IT, telecom, and cleantech.

Over the course of his career, Charles has developed deep expertise in deal structuring, execution, and due diligence, having led numerous direct and indirect transactions. His track record of early-stage direct investments includes successful exits such as Colo-D, Fresche Solutions, and LiquidXStream—demonstrating a consistent ability to identify high-potential companies and support them through to meaningful outcomes. On the fund-of-funds side, Charles represented LP interests in some of Canada's most active and credible early-stage venture funds, including Inovia III, MKB II, and Whitestar Capital II—giving him firsthand insight into what distinguishes top-performing fund managers and investment strategies.

His strong foundation in fund governance and administration, combined with his legal training, makes him a particularly effective partner in navigating complex transactions and aligning the interests of entrepreneurs, co-investors, and limited partners. His trajectory across both sides of the table—as a direct investor and as an LP representative in several venture funds—gives Charles a rare dual perspective on what it takes to build, fund, and scale technology companies.

Charles holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences (economics) from the University of Ottawa, a law degree from the Université de Montréal, and a Diploma in Treasury/Finance from McGill University.

Joseph Tou brings over 30 years of experience at the intersection of technology development, investment, and media.

Most recently, he was Co-founder and Managing Director at Sony Ventures, based in Los Angeles—the heart of global entertainment—where he focused on early- to growth-stage investments in emerging tech and content startups across gaming, music, video, and sports. With deep roots in engineering, product, and corporate development, Joe has a unique and passionate perspective on how technology transforms consumer and entertainment experiences.

Prior to Sony Ventures, Joe led U.S. technology M&A and strategic investments as VP of Corporate Development at Sony Corporation of America for over a decade. Earlier in his career, he held investment roles in PE/VC and equity research at Bertram Capital, Mavent Partners, and Pacific Crest Securities. Joe began his career in product and engineering roles at Intel, Solectron, and Ford.

Joe holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, as well as M.S. degrees in Engineering Management and Operations Research from Northwestern University. He earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.