Thomas Birch
Non-Executive Director
Thomas Birch was appointed to the FNZ Group Board in September 2024.
He has over 30 years of entrepreneurial software operating experience in the contact centre, telecom, CRM and e-commerce markets.
Most recently he was Global Managing Director, Venture Capital and Technology at CDPQ for ten years, where he led technology and venture capital investment activities.
Prior to joining CDPQ, he was VP of Corporate Development at Telesystem and Managing Partner of Propulsion Ventures, where he invested primarily in SaaS oriented early-stage companies.
Before moving into the investment world, he was CEO of three software companies that were financed by venture capital or angels: GoodContacts, DataCHEST and Pyderion.
Thomas has a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.Sc. of Computing Science from Queen’s University and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business of University of Western Ontario.
He currently sits on the Board of Directors of IEX as well as FNZ. During his career, he has acted as a Board member for several companies, including Lightspeed Commerce, Hopper, AppDirect, eSentire, Dalcor, Element AI, Interset, dna13, eBillme, IVARA, X20 Media and MILA (Montreal’s AI institute).