Brent James
Life Sciences Business Mentor, Vancouver, Canada
Mr. Brent James serves as Business Mentor. Previously Executive Chair at Human in Motion robotics Inc and President & Chief Executive Officer at Aquila Diagnostics Systems. He also served as Venture Partner at Jerusalem Capital Partners. He was a Board Member of LightIntegra. For more than 25 years, he has brought success to the early stage companies he has founded or developed. His work spans diverse sectors in North America and globally, including MDI Mobile Data International and MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc., which he co-founded, as well as Abebooks.com, where he was the company's first CEO. He is a consultant for the technology industry, an angel investor, and an undergraduate and graduate instructor in Entrepreneurship at UBC's Sauder School of Business. He also sits on the Board of Directors for many businesses and communities. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from UBC and an MBA from the Sloan School at MIT.