Rhiannon Davies (she/her)

This speaker is exclusively speaking at FundFest.

Rhiannon has created, acquired and led companies in Europe, Asia, South and North America, including as CEO of GVSC BV, which she built to become a $2Billion revenue subsidiary of multinational eyecare giant GrandVision. She was a member of the Executive and Board of Directors that took PE-backed GrandVision public on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, raising $1.5 billion in one of the top 10 global IPOs of the year. An active investor and mentor, Rhiannon is motivated by the enormous untapped opportunity of investing in women-owned technology companies as an underrepresented demographic that is overperforming. Rhiannon is a Founding and Managing Partner of Sandpiper Ventures, a seed-stage VC fund investing in Canadian technology companies.