An accredited investor relations professional, Alyssa brings 20 years of diverse experience across communications, private equity, in-house, and agency roles. Under her leadership, irlabs became one of North America’s leading IR firms, known for providing strategic advisory and fostering meaningful investor engagement. Alyssa has raised over $1 billion in capital, led some of Canada’s most successful activism campaigns, managed high-profile M&A transactions, and enhanced board governance frameworks.

Before co-founding irlabs, she was Head of Strategy – Operations and Communications at Artis REIT, Vice President of Capital Markets and Communications at Sandpiper Group, and Manager of Investor Relations at Amica Mature Lifestyles Inc.

In the community, Alyssa is a Director of ALS Canada and LIFT Impact Partners. Alyssa is also a WPO member and an advisor to Women Get on Board and Women Funding Women. Alyssa was named one of Women’s Executive Network (WXN) 2024 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner.

Carolyn brings over two decades of experience, leveraging her background as a sell-side analyst and an investor relations advisor. She possesses deep expertise in counseling public companies on their IR program strategy, formation, implementation, and communication of major corporate events, including significant management changes, emergence from bankruptcy, rebuilding/relaunching corporate identity, facilities closures, transformational M&A, and capital markets transactions. She has worked with clients in the industrial/manufacturing, cleantech, building products, exchange, telecommunications/media/technology, AdTech and fintech sectors. She led a comprehensive perception study and repositioning exercise for NASDAQ and was a co-author of the NASDAQ OMX Going Public Guide for North American Companies.

Prior to joining LHA, Carolyn was an equity research analyst at Robertson Stephens, a boutique investment bank, where she applied a return on invested capital (ROIC) and discounted cash flow (DCF) focus to analyze catalog, retail, and e-commerce channels in the hard and soft-goods retail sectors. She began her career at Prudential-Bache Securities as an equity coordinator on the firm’s equity research desk.

Carolyn earned a BA from Rutgers University where she participated in the Henry Rutgers General Honors Program and is a CFA® charterholder.

Since 2009, Angela has found herself at the forefront of emerging technologies, holding diverse senior executive positions leading and transforming operations, business strategy, sales and marketing in highly regulated industries, such as gaming, fintech, blockchain mining, and digital assets. Her expertise lies in building global operations, frictionless applications and service channels from the ground up, executing go-to-market strategies and working closely with diverse stakeholders in private and public markets. She is always bringing people together for new perspectives, amplifying culture, building community and creating memorable experiences. 

Angela attended the British Columbia Institute of Technology for Operations Management, and she recently earned her Global ESG designation and certificate through Competent Boards.

Todd facilitates investor access and engagement by connecting companies with members of the investment community and establishing relationships within the capital markets ecosystem across North America. He has over 20 years of finance and business strategy experience and is known for his ability to bring unique and creative strategic insights and market intelligence forward to shape the thinking and positioning of investment opportunities and business strategies. Through his corporate and project finance experience he has been involved in structuring over $5 billion in complex transactions and through his investor relations experience has been involved in raising over $250 million in capital for global tech firms and innovative tech start-ups. Todd’s strategic management experience has supported mergers & acquisitions, new venture initiatives and corporate strategic planning.

Todd holds a BBA in Finance and an Executive MBA from Simon Fraser University. He is currently on the Board of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute BC Chapter. Todd is also a licensed exempt market dealer.