Joel Liederman, B.Eng., MBA

President, ELARAD Venture Management

Joel is an accomplished senior executive with more than 40 years of high technology company leadership, domestic and international marketing expertise, and venture capital experience in high technology industries.  His educational background includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University and a MBA (specialization in international marketing and finance) from Concordia University. Mr. Liederman’s responsibilities have included roles as CEO of a next generation mammography machine company (XLV Diagnostics), CEO of a solar materials company (QD Solar), Vice President, Physical Sciences at MaRS Innovation (a commercialization engine and venture capital investor for the organization’s 15 members including the teaching hospitals and the major universities in the GTA, a senior engineering design manager, project engineering manager for two CANDU nuclear power plants, general manager of an engineering design office, VP of marketing, sales and business development for world class organizations including General Electric, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Alcatel and Spar Aerospace. Joel spent several years as a venture capital investor at Primaxis Technology Ventures.

Having recently retired (December 2016) from MaRS Innovation, Joel is maintaining his board director or observer positions for the following companies: Flybits, XLV Diagnostics, ChipCare, and Crowdmark. Joel has “re-energized” his consulting company, ELARAD Venture Management, and is currently working on several MaRS Innovation technology commercialization projects and providing strategy development assistance to several early stage high technology companies.

Joel has a proven track record in supporting early stage companies with a unique mix of "company builder" strengths in corporate governance, project management, marketing, business development, client relationship development and management, strategic planning, communications and problem solving across multiple sectors including medical devices, enterprise software, electronics, and advanced materials.