Alan McMillan, Managing Director
Alan has been a CEO or founder of several technology companies and he continues to find a thrill in being involved in growth stage opportunities. He has built a product business from the beginning and grew it to $200M in revenue over four years in the Asia Pacific region. In the early years of the web he co-founded Pacific Connections, which was acquired by China.com, (CHINA:NASDAQ). He also co-founded one of the world’s first ASP (SaaS) companies, and was the CEO of Think Dynamics, which was acquired by IBM. Think Dynamics won “Investment of The Year” from the CVCA.  He spends his time in Shanghai and Toronto.

Xiao Hong is our wonderfully trilingual China business development expert. She has a BCOMM, with major in hotel management from Shu Ren University in Hangzhou, China. After having worked at three hotels in China, she went to Silicon Valley during the boom and worked with a startup company. She now lives in Toronto where she is helping Omazo bridge the gap between North America and China for our clean technology/commercial property focus.

Lu Shan Yang is based in Hangzhou, China and possesses a bachelor of engineering degree. He has worked as an engineer in several sectors over the past 30 years. Having been a technical service section chief at both an industrial process automation and instrumentation factory, he moved on to being a project manager at the fire control branch of a public security corporation. More recently, Mr Yang has held management positions in engineering departments for high end hotels in Hangzhou, overseeing preparation and construction. Mr Yang has received an award for hotel energy savings in 2006.

Anton van Rhyn
Anton comes from a family of small business people and entrepreneurs. He gained an understanding of business from his grandfather (a serial entrepreneur) at an early age. A computer geek by nature, Anton rode the wave of the dot com boom and was earning way too much money for a 16 year old by running affiliate marketing campaigns and selling his own software to play mp3 audio files. Going on to write software for start up companies at age 18, he learned how the start up process works and got slightly addicted. After the dot com bust, Anton went on to start and run several of his own small businesses ranging from landscaping, managing musicians, throwing concerts and managing dedicated web servers for clients around the world. Anton graduated on the Dean’s List from Ryerson university with a B.Comm specializing in both Finance and Entrepreneurship.

“Omazo Ventures has added immense value to BrootSoft, not only through their years of industry experience and strategic insight – but also by leveraging their extensive list of contacts to form partnerships and recruit advisory board members whom are appropriate to our business.”
Tom McIlwham, President - BrootSoft