What is the
Greater Return?
A Return on investment through a focus on entrepreneurs and companies that are building disruptive and resilient, future-focused companies. A more complete Return, knowing that the teams we invest in are driven by a passion to improve the communities and world around them.
Focus
We target early-stage entrepreneurs and companies that have identified a next generation regulatory market, or societal change and are positioned to seize that opportunity and disrupt the status quo.
Having scaled businesses in complex and dynamic regulatory environments globally, and launched global brands and large-scale facilities, we bring both capital and a breadth of expertise to our portfolio of companies.
Leadership
Mark Zekulin
is a lawyer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience navigating complex regulatory and commercial environments. As the former President and CEO of Canopy Growth Corporation, Mark built one of Canada’s most successful start-ups over the past decade, growing to become a NYSE-listed, multi-billion dollar enterprise with over 4400 staff located across five continents.
During Mark’s leadership at Canopy Growth, its culture, products, and marketing campaigns all garnered recognition and awards, including as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures. In 2019, the Toronto Stock Exchange named Canopy Growth as the top performing stock over the preceding three years on its inaugural TSX30 listing. The Company also attracted an unprecedented $5 billion investment from Fortune 500 beverage alcohol company Constellation Brands, and partnered with leading cultural icons including Drake, Snoop Dogg, Seth Rogen and Martha Stewart.
Recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40, Mark is also Chairman of Invert Inc., an Ottawa-based company that funds and supports projects that reduce or remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and the Chairman of BC Biocarbon, a technology company that transforms waste materials into biochar that sequesters carbon.
A lawyer by training, Mark has practiced international trade law and holds a Masters in Law from the University of Cambridge, where he specialized in International Law.
Rade Kovacevic
has been a life long entrepreneur, founding Cerium Media in 1998, the Medical Cannabis Centre of Guelph in 2006 and MedCannAccess in 2013. Two years after founding, MedCannAccess was acquired by Canopy Growth Corporation where Rade held roles in increasing seniority culminating as President. During his time at Canopy Growth, Rade built a portfolio of industry leading brands, established new product categories and scaled revenue from $2.4MM to over $540MM annually and operations to match.
Rade has a history of being able to bring key stakeholders together, from his past work with the Guelph and Ontario Chambers of Commerce, to co-founding the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries (now the Association of Canadian Cannabis Retailers) and the Canadian Medical Cannabis Industry Association (now the Cannabis Council of Canada).
Rade holds a Baccalaureate of Arts degree from the University of Guelph and graduated from the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.
