Vern K. Paulus

Peer 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. delivers Internet bandwidth and colocation facilities. Its services are designed to enable its customers to focus on their businesses rather than the complexities of maintaining or expanding their Internet infrastructure. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

ePals, Inc. offers K-12 schools, teachers, students and parents a safe and secure global online communications and collaboration platform for building educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating 21st century learning. The world's largest K-12 learning network, ePals Global Community™ consists of educators and reaches, many students and parents in many countries and territories. The global scale of ePals' network offers teachers, students and parent's unprecedented ability to facilitate teaching and student learning by sharing projects and best practices, connecting with other classrooms and learners around the corner and around the globe, and accessing content and lesson plans designed for an increasingly digital and networked world. With an estimated 500 million students online at school and/or at home, the ePals learning network is transforming education by offering teachers and students a true combination of standards-based content with tools for authentic learning. Students are learning in a real-world setting that builds digital literacy skills, improves critical thinking and introduces students to multiple points-of-view.

Yaletown Venture Partners, Inc (Yaletown Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Mike Satterfield and Hans Knapp. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.