Our Leadership
MANAGING PARTNER
Marc Hanna
Marc Hanna is the leader of Wavecrest Strategies, leveraging over 30 years of experience in business management across the technology, retail, and financial services sectors.
A serial entrepreneur, Marc has a proven track record of starting and managing successful businesses. He also brings extensive expertise from his senior roles at Deloitte and BDO Canada, where he specialized in tax credits, grants, and investment incentives. Marc excels in translating strategic goals into practical, efficient solutions and optimizing processes to drive growth. His deep understanding of both financial and technical operations allows him to bridge communication gaps and create cohesive strategies across departments.
As the Managing Partner of Wavecrest, Marc is dedicated to helping businesses secure funding and achieve growth while actively contributing to his community and improving access to digital resources and affordable housing in rural Nova Scotia.
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Our Strategic Advisors
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Ian Whytock
Ian Whytock is the Managing Partner at Tidal Venture Partners. Under his leadership, Tidal launched Fund I, successfully bringing together a diverse group of limited partners from across North America. His strategic direction has been instrumental in helping portfolio companies secure over $18 million in successor and co-investment financing. He was the first Canadian fund manager to graduate from the highly competitive VC Lab accelerator program.
As Managing Partner, Ian oversees fund operations, leads investment due-diligence, portfolio support, and maintains strategic relationships with investors. His hands-on approach to portfolio company management includes advising on organizational design, talent recruitment, and capitalization strategies.
Prior to co-founding Tidal, Ian worked in strategy consulting and was a practice leader at the Barrington Consulting Group. He led their strategy and innovation practice group and worked with company founders on their go-to-market motions. This role was informed by Ian’s time as the Executive Director for Canada at Asoko Insight, Africa’s leading provider of corporate data and market intelligence.
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Chris Crowell
Chris Crowell is both an active Canadian venture capitalist and startup founder. He is the co-founder of ResolveHD, an AI startup using natural language processing to unlock the potential of health data to improve productivity and patient outcomes. He is also a founding general partner in Tidal Venture Partners, a private capital led fund investing in high-potential seed stage East Coast startups.
Previously, he held operations and technology leadership roles with Bell Canada, OpenText and Accenture – where he led Accenture Ventures and open health innovation for Canada. innovative
Chris has also made significant contributions to the advancement of Atlantic Canada’s innovation ecosystem. He built Volta’s first corporate innovation program and developed innovation strategies for the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia Health, TechNL and other public sector organizations and not-for-profits. He is the inaugural chair of Ignite Atlantic.
Chris holds a L.L.B and MBA from Dalhousie University and completed the LEAD Corporation Innovation designation from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.