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Given that there is a keen interest in learning about leadership, networking and other critical skills that entrepreneurs need, I am very pleased that Roger Killen has agreed to speak on the topic.

Roger was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and received his university education at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated with an honours degree in Business Studies and a single digit golf handicap in 1973 and immigrated to Canada in 1975.

Since 1980, Roger has either founded or held a senior position in six start-up businesses: on his watch, four were winners and two were losers. He has taken one company public and been an angel investor in seven businesses. He has directly assisted start-ups raise over $8,000,000 in early-stage equity and leveraged this equity with other sources of early-stage capital into a total of $14,000,000.

Roger’s professional vision is to boost British Columbia’s small business success rate. Since 2001 he has developed and delivered small business development and financing seminars to entrepreneurs and their advisors in British Columbia and the Yukon. These seminars include Investor Ready 101, How to Raise Early-Stage Capital, The First 99 Milestones and Build & Finance Your SME.

Roger’s hobbies are public speaking, cooking, ballroom dancing and day-trading futures contracts.

Contact:  rkillen (at) shaw.ca