Our Team

Meet the faces behind Spring who collectively bring a world of knowledge and experience to the entrepreneurship and impact communities.

Keith Ippel

Keith Ippel
CEO & Cofounder

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With over 25 years experience as a leader in technology & impact businesses, Keith has accelerated companies and ecosystems and raised over $30m in angel investment and venture capital. A global keynote speaker, teacher, and advisor, Keith leads Spring and focuses on our strategic growth and global ecosystem advisory work. Keith has been riding his bike to work for over 10 years now- rain or shine!
Sana Kapadia

Sana Kapadia
Chief Impact Officer

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Sana Kapadia is a world changer, champion of diversity and systems change. A Top 40 under 40 winner, she drives strategy and impact at Spring with her rich global background in impact Investing, equity research, and social entrepreneurship. Currently living in Germany, Sana is a mum of two adventurous trailblazers (under 4!), reads voraciously, loves traveling and wants to scuba dive with her beach-loving husband.

Vivian McCormick
Business Development and Talent Director

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Vivian was a practicing lawyer in Vancouver for over 10 years, first with a national law firm and then as in-house counsel with Business Development Bank of Canada. Taking her knowledge and experience further into the business realm as an advisor, she started her own entrepreneurial journey with her first company Flax Sleep. She supports entrepreneurs with raising capital and oversees Spring’s programming and partnerships.

Chin Hing Chang
Program Manager

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Chin is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for education and helping others discover their purpose. His experience includes retail, mobile development, aerial photography, and import/export. Chin has received multiple awards as a sales manager, is our in-house automation expert, and works closely with our entrepreneurs to help them increase their revenue. Chin loves spicy food, the spicier the better 🙂
Mari Matthews

Mari Mathews
Program Manager

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Mari began her career working internationally for 10+ years in the ski & tourism industry. In Oslo, Norway she co-founded Outtt raising over 4 million NOK and driving the company to over seventy thousand monthly active users and 40+ paying customers. Now back in her hometown of Vancouver, Mari devotes her time to helping entrepreneurs navigate raising capital for early stage growth.

Tiffany Shen
Program Manager

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Tiffany Shen is an entrepreneur, consultant and creative strategist. Tiffany uses creative strategy and solutions to start and grow businesses. At Spring, she helps entrepreneurs start and grow their social impact businesses. She loves roaming in the mountains and diving into projects around wellness, AI and outdoors lifestyle.
Sarah Applebaum

Sarah Applebaum
Funding Facilitator

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Committed to life-long learning, technology & innovation, and hopefully doing things a bit differently. I work with entrepreneurs and help them realize their vision of the future.
Vanessa Uhl

Vanessa Uhl
Program Coordinator

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With my interest in sustainability and businesses with a sustainable impact, I would love to be part of the change and contribute something to the bigger picture.
Mike Winterfield - Spring EiR

Mike Winterfield
Advisor

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Top 40 under 40. 20 years in the tech industry specializing in services companies and SaaS products. 14 years in various executive roles, most recently President of Traction Rec and COO at Traction on Demand. Mike has spent the last decade scaling companies from start-up to $300M by building high performing teams committed to core values. Avid lover of nature and any form of outdoor activity or experience.
Sophie Bujold

Sophie Bujold
Community Manager

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Sophie is an entrepreneur and consultant with a deep passion for bringing people together in genuine and impactful ways. She taps into more than 18 years of experience in community building, customer experience and digital strategy to create outstanding community experiences for businesses and the people they serve. At Spring, Sophie acts as a key contact for entrepreneurs, alumni, mentors, investors, and partners to ensure we provide an exceptional and value-added experience to each stakeholder.

Caroline von Hirschberg
Program Director

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Caroline brings fresh experience starting and scaling social ventures in the UK and Kenya. Along the journey of iterative product development to international product launches of renewable energy solutions, Caroline has learned the value of human centred design, the rollercoaster of managing international operations, the value of partnerships and how to raise funds from multiple sources! She’s now excited to share these insights with social entrepreneurs looking to grow their impact.

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