We build durable, investable companies by turning proven operators into founders across Canada.
We build durable, investable companies by turning proven operators into founders across Canada.
Venture Capital | Private Equity | Operator | Independent Director | Accelerator Founder | 2-Exits
At SEV, Kevin leads investment discipline and Access Mode integration, bringing cross-border commercialization expertise to venture formation.
Kevin Allen has been involved in building great businesses his entire career. He started his first c
Venture Capital | Private Equity | Operator | Independent Director | Accelerator Founder | 2-Exits
At SEV, Kevin leads investment discipline and Access Mode integration, bringing cross-border commercialization expertise to venture formation.
Kevin Allen has been involved in building great businesses his entire career. He started his first company right after business school in the bioinformatics space. As CEO and co-founder of New World Science and Technology, Kevin’s company created an algorithm to simulate cellular signal transduction resulting in a patent for the innovative work. After selling that business and a brief stint on Capital Hill as a Business Specialist for the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, he spent time as a Vice President in a small investment firm financing infrastructure projects for large municipalities.
From there, Kevin moved on to Johnson Controls doing infrastructure projects for Fortune 500 companies and discovered a passion for energy efficiency work. Kevin got back into entrepreneurship as the CEO and cofounder of tekBOA Inc – a start-up focusing on technology solutions in the built environment. tekBOA was sold to a customer in 2015. Following the exit, Kevin become the co-founder at Energy Growth Partners working with private equity sponsors in pursuit of proprietary acquisitions in the building services space. While at EGP, Kevin built a proprietary pipeline of acquisition targets with an aggregate value of over $250M. Seeing an opportunity in the fitness technology market, Kevin founded his next company ROWViGOR, a rowing fitness technology company. After winding down ROWViGOR, Kevin went to material science and technology company Windpact, where Kevin served as the COO.
Recently, Kevin co founded Access Mode - a nonprofit company dedicated to supporting BIPOC entrepreneurs where he is Executive Director and Chairman of the Board. Kevin also served as Managing Director for early stage Venture Fund NCTF Denver which focuses on investing in early stage companies founded by BIPOC entrepreneurs. Kevin has spent time as an Investment Banker and was a cast member of NBC’s “The Apprentice Season II” where he made it to the final four.
He has been asked to speak about his experiences at several events and institutions ranging from Princeton University to NASA. Kevin has a BS from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School of Business) where he excelled as a two-time All-League varsity football player; an MBA from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University where he was a Toigo Finance Fellow; and a JD from the Law School at the University of Chicago. Kevin lives in Colorado with his wife, two teenage sons and their black lab Huey where he is active in a number of volunteer activities ranging from coaching football to mentoring early stage entrepreneurs for a variety of organizations,
Venture Capital | Operator | Independent Director | National Bank Founder | Lecturer & Mentor - Stanford University GSB | 3-Exits
At SEV, JP serves as President, leading cross-border strategy and ecosystem design. He converts under-recognized operators into globally competitive founders, leveraging 30+ years as founder, operator, and inves
Venture Capital | Operator | Independent Director | National Bank Founder | Lecturer & Mentor - Stanford University GSB | 3-Exits
At SEV, JP serves as President, leading cross-border strategy and ecosystem design. He converts under-recognized operators into globally competitive founders, leveraging 30+ years as founder, operator, and investor to create durable companies anchored in Calgary with national Canadian relevance.
Originally from New York City, JP is a multi-disciplined senior executive specializing in organizational behavior optimization, market engagement strategy, and go-to-market design for companies disrupting traditional models. His career centers on building economic infrastructure for underserved markets—experience that directly informs SEV's mission.
Prior to Colorado, JP was Head Trader for a California family office hedge fund and served as equities portfolio and treasury asset manager for Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney/Morgan Stanley in New York City, specializing in women- and BIPOC-owned companies.
In 2007, JP founded Solera National Bancorp, raising $29M in a 13-state self-underwritten IPO and building the institution to over $1.3B in assets, the first nationally-approved bank holding company in Colorado in ten years and the first national Hispanic-markets specialized bank in the U.S. This experience building financial infrastructure for underserved communities shapes SEV's approach to treating operator capability as economic infrastructure.
Through Bainbridge Ventures, JP advised NYC's Department of Finance and served as Subject Matter Expert to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General on underserved markets lending, yielding the white paper "Providing Non-Bank Financial Services for the Underserved" (2014), endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren.
JP is the longest-serving mentor, lecturer, and capital advisor for Stanford University's Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) at Stanford's Graduate School of Business since 2015. This network, plus involvement with Access Mode, gBETA, and Techstars, U.S. Department of State, provides SEV with cross-border commercialization pathways helping Calgary companies access U.S. markets while retaining Canadian jobs and IP.
JP has served on over twenty boards spanning bank holding companies, VCs, fintechs, and CDFIs. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado with his family, holds a BA in International Relations from Syracuse's Maxwell School, and is an avid fly fisherman, jazz musician, and F1 enthusiast.
Corporate Futurist | Strategist | Innovator | Venture Founder | Fortune 500 Advisor | Executive Learning Leader | Keynote Speaker
Sabrina Sullivan is a corporate futurist, strategist, and advisor with 15+ years of experience driving transformation across Fortune 500 companies, government, higher education, nonprofits, and high-growth ventu
Corporate Futurist | Strategist | Innovator | Venture Founder | Fortune 500 Advisor | Executive Learning Leader | Keynote Speaker
Sabrina Sullivan is a corporate futurist, strategist, and advisor with 15+ years of experience driving transformation across Fortune 500 companies, government, higher education, nonprofits, and high-growth ventures. She is known for bridging the abstract world of future possibilities with the practical work of building strategies that deliver durable impact. She has spent meaningful periods living and working in both Canada and the United States, collaborating with teams globally.
Sabrina’s career includes leading one of Deloitte’s flagship innovation programs, serving as a Foresight Fellow at Ford Motor Company, and leading Advisory delivery at Foresight Factory. Across these roles, she has helped organizations anticipate change, build institutional agility, and make clearer strategic choices in the face of uncertainty. Today, she also runs by + by foresight, an applied foresight studio that partners with Fortune 500s, startups, and universities to build future-ready strategies and stronger decision muscle. As an entrepreneur, Sabrina has launched ventures ranging from a sustainable finance startup to a SaaS platform designed to measure and improve innovation practice. This mix of corporate, public sector, and entrepreneurial experience allows her to help leaders and organizations turn uncertainty into strategic advantage.
In parallel, Sabrina designs and delivers executive and leader learning experiences that position strategic foresight as a modern leadership advantage in partnership with large institutions like the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. These programs and experiences focus on strengthening leaders’ ability to sense change early, rehearse decisions through scenarios, and act with intent without relying on prediction. She is also the co-creator of Leaders for Humanity, a platform and game that sparks fresh thinking about leadership in an unpredictable world and helps executives evolve their practice. A distinctive part of her approach is experiential: she designs and deploys foresight games and simulations that help founders, CEOs, and investors rehearse potential futures—surfacing risks and opportunities, strengthening resilience, and improving decision quality under compounding complexity.
Sabrina holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Calgary and a dual-degree MBA in Strategy and Innovation and an MS in Sustainable, as part of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, where she deepened her expertise in multi-disciplinary strategy, sustainable innovation, and systems thinking.
At SEV, Sabrina drives long-term strategy and ecosystem design, bringing futures-oriented thinking and systems expertise to venture formation and operator development. She architects the operating model and strategic positioning that allows the platform to scale across Canadian innovation corridors while maintaining execution discipline and ecosystem integration.
Sabrina lives in Calgary and is a sought-after keynote speaker on the future of work, strategic foresight, and organizational resilience.