Director, National Angel Capital Organization
Ed Alfke, serial entrepreneur and CEO is an early stage company growth expert, business turnaround expert, leader in the angel investment space and sough-after international business speaker. Ed has been featured in over one thousand media reports on NBC, CBC’s The National, Entrepreneur Magazine, Canadian Business Magazine, the Financial Post and ‘The Times of London’, to name a few. He’s raised over $50 million in investment capital, founded 20 companies, including Rent-A-Wreck, and is the winner of multiple prestigious awards, such as BC Businessman of the Year Award and the Crescordia Environmental Award. Ed is a guest speaker at Universities and his business achievements, which include doubling corporate growth for 10 consecutive years, are the subject of case studies in many University MBA and Commerce programs across the country.
Although Ed became a self-made millionaire in his early twenties, he admits he did it the hard way, on his own without the guidance of mentors. After more than 35 years of building companies, Ed says he’s learned more from his business failures than his successes. Today he’s passionate about helping his CEO mentees learn from his costly mistakes to turn their challenges into victories and fast track their success. Ed’s most recent project was recognized as one of the ‘Top 10 early stage companies in Canada’ and has won multiple awards for technological innovations.
Ed lives in wine and lake country, is a heli-skier, windsurfs and is learning kite boarding and enjoys time with family and close friends.
