Leadership Team

Pamela Winsor, RN, MBA, ICD.D -  Chair of the Board - Pam is a respected and highly accomplished healthcare leader in Canada.  With over 20 years years as a Senior Healthcare Executive (former CMO, Medtronic), Pam has a deep knowledge of the life sciences sector and what it takes to get a new technology or solution to market and to get it fully funded, even in a very restrained healthcare environment. More importantly, Pam has expertise in leading and steering the future direction of healthcare.  She was one of early champions of value-based healthcare strategies and novel access approaches which simultaneously improve outcomes and lower costs. This will encompass new players/technologies, new financial models and more long-term strategic oversight, challenging legacy care models and current healthcare boards. These approaches will enrol and engage new players by adopting new technologies and financial models, thereby challenging legacy models to provide better care and sustainable long term strategic oversight.

John Cullen - CEO & Director - John has over 30 years experience in successful public company financing, corporate/capital structuring and management.  Following 15 years in the Canadian investment industry, he has founded and profitably exited a number of private and public companies. Many of the companies have international businesses across various industry sectors.  He has a track record in creating accretive value to shareholders.  At present, he is also the CEO & Director of the Board of JHI Associates Inc, an exploration company partnered with Exxon and Total in a deepwater offshore petroleum exploration block in Guyana South America.  Industry agnostic, John has demonstrated the ability to provide leadership and vision across different sectors.

Allan Bezanson – Director - Allan is currently the Chair of the Board, BW Founders Holdings Ltd. (a company owned by his family trust).  He is an active investor, primarily in technology and oil and gas with an astute knowledge of the capital markets from both the buy and sell perspectives.  Seasoned director at a number of private companies, Allan honed his skills and strategic acumen by having played key roles and/or held executive positions at hedge funds, private equity and financial services. Allan’s early career was at Nowsco Well Service Ltd., where he spearheaded the financing and structuring of the international operations in over a dozen countries.  In the late nineties, he managed over $1B AUM of arbitrage assets at an offshore hedge fund. More recently he has spent time financing and advising a number of private and public entities resulting in notable success; specifically: Nowsco Well Service, Altus, Bluewave Energy, FCF Capital, Polaris Infrastructure and Voxtur. Throughout his distinguished career, Allan has lived and worked in the Netherlands , Guernsey, Barbados , United States of America, and Canada.

Andres Tinajero - CFO - Andres has a diverse background working in the last 2 decades in a broad range of industries, including technology, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing.  He has been played key roles in financing strategy and planning, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and financial control.   Detail-oriented and strategic, he has added significant value serving as CFO and/or Vice President Finance for several public companies.

Scott Young - VP, Corporate Development - Scott has an extensive background in corporate development, fundraising strategy and tactical planning. Companies he has successfully helped fund are in diverse industries such as biotech, medtech and natural resources.  He has a comprehensive institutional financing network that spans North and South America, Europe and Asia. He has delivered investment results for various private or public entities. His track record of delivering value has been consistent for over 2 decades. 

Wendy T. Chan, BSc, MBA, ICD.D - VP, Strategy - Wendy is a Director of Moxie Strategy, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in Strategy, Business Development, Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions. She is the Founder and former Director of Carepoint Medical & Wellness Clinics, a chain of primary and specialist care clinics in British Colombia. Previously she had profitably managed, with full P&L responsibilities, over a dozen multi-million businesses at Fortune 500 healthcare companies such as: Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Glaxo-SmithKline(GSK), Ortho-McNeil(Janssen). At J&J, she was the Canadian Lead and Business Director, managing a product portfolio of Diagnostic Test Kits, OTC Contraceptives and Prophylatics.  She has a Medical Science undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia, with directed studies on SSRI’s & Depression, an MBA in Finance and Marketing from McGill University and she has recently received ICD.D Designation at Rotman Institute of Corporate Directors, University of Toronto. Previously, Wendy served as a Director of the Board at the British Columbia Cancer Foundation, and as an advisory and committee member at the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Vancouver Opera, and Women in Leadership.  She is also the Founder of the University of British Columbia Badminton Club.