Real Ventures Partner & Two Serial Entrepreneurs Join Volta Labs’ Board of Directors
HALIFAX – Volta Labs has added three big names to its board of directors.
The startup house announced Tuesday that Janet Bannister, Leah Skerry and Ross Simmonds have been added to the board.
Bannister is a partner at Real Ventures and also brought Kijiji to Canada. Skerry founded Pursu.it to help athletes fund their dreams and founded Squiggle Park to help young children learn to read. After a digital marketing career helping startups and Fortune 500 companies succeed, Simmonds founded Crate to automate the digital marketing content curation process.
“Our new board members bring even more global connections to Atlantic Canada,” said Jevon MacDonald, Volta’s chair of the board. “Ross and Leah are both active entrepreneurs and Janet is currently a venture partner with an extensive history of entrepreneurship, so these new additions add more of both finance and operational experience to the board. They all want to help put Halifax on the map as a place for founders to start new companies and grow existing ones.”
With the three new members, Volta has grown its governing scope to include leaders from across the country and brought more founder voices to the table. They join board chair Jevon MacDonald, co-founder of GoInstant and Manifold, and members Jesse Rodgers, CEO of Volta; Iain Klugman, CEO of Communitech; Patrick Keefe, partner with Build Ventures and Thomas Rankin, co-founder and CEO of Dash Hudson and former early-stage venture capitalist.