Jan Kaminski

Background

About Jan Kaminski

Jan is currently President of Colonnade Investments, a private equity investment company based in Ottawa. Colonnade’s four investments platforms include real estate, agriculture, and environmental. His portfolio board and management positions include Market Maker Agriculture and Bonnefield. Prior to Colonnade, Jan was the President and CEO of Ionalytics Corporation, a venture-backed start-up which built analytical instruments used to accelerate the drug discovery and development process. He guided Ionalytics’ transformation from a research organization to a product company and led it through an acquisition by ThermoFisher. Jan’s previous venture-backed experience was with FastLane Technologies, a developer of enterprise performance management software. As President and CEO, Jan built a global sales and support organization which grew to over enterprise customers. He led FastLane through a successful sale and integration with Quest Software. Jan served on the Foundation Board of St. Patrick’s Home for 10 years, a not-for-profit long-term care facility in Ottawa. He has served as an independent member on the Board of Directors of DNA Genotek which was acquired by OraSure Technologies in 2011, Whitehill Technologies which was acquired by Skywire Software in 2007 and GOT Corporation until it was acquired by Protus in 2008. He has held advisory and board positions in a number of other corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Jan Kaminski holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University.