Assent

Canada - Ottawa, Ontario

• 06/01/2022
• Unknown
• $350,000,000

Assent is the leader in supply chain sustainability management solutions. With more than a decade of experience, Assent is specifically focused on complex manufacturers, a subset of manufacturers in the industrial equipment, electronics, medical device, aerospace/defense and automotive verticals whose products have a long design cycle and shelf life. More importantly, with thousands of parts making up a single product — and equally as many supplier partners across their global supply chain — complex manufacturers have extreme supply chain sustainability requirements.

The Assent solution blends the SaaS technology platform with managed services and its world-class Regulatory Team of subject matter experts who keep customers ahead of compliance and regulatory changes across the globe.

Assent’s customers use our solutions across product compliance, trade compliance and ESG to capture, track, report on and manage supply chain compliance and sustainability performance of their suppliers. Assent is on a mission to make the supply chains of complex manufacturers deeply and durably good by helping them see deeper into their supply chains, be smarter with powerful data, and grow better to seize market opportunities.

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Andrew W.Co Founder

Canada - Ottawa, Ontario

Business Background

In September 2014 Andrew volunteered at Assent Compliance in exchange for an office. Assent was an embryonic SaaS B2B Enterprise software company. In January 2015, and as the company's first investor, I became CEO. Today Andrew leads the most rapidly growing US$100M Enterprise B2B company in Canada.

In September 2008, I volunteered to advise Pythian as I was already an investor. At that time it was a modest, extremely indebted, small Oracle DBA services firm founded in 1997. In January 2009, Paul Vallee, Pythian's co-Founder asked me, with no prior operational experience, to take on the CEO role.
Grew Pythian from a small Professional Services firm to a C$50M dollar success story in under five years.
In August 2014 I moved on to Assent.

From 1996 to 2008 Andrew was the Managing Partner of Celtic House Venture Partners. Under his stewardship, one Fund produced one of the world's top 10 best venture fund returns...ever! with a net IRR of over 180%.

Prior to joining Celtic House, what Andrew did doesn't really matter given the paragraph you just read.
Prior to that, Andrew was at Citibank, working on complicated stuff called derivatives that eventually brought down the world's financial system (I had already left) and nearly Citibank. Andrew is also an alumnus of Bell-Northern Research which didn't go bankrupt, but it was eventually absorbed by Nortel Networks which then imploded.

Andrew currently sits on the boards of Fidus Systems and Assent, two of the fastest-growing companies in Ottawa today.

Previously, Andrew sat on numerous tech/start-up company Boards.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-w-333322/