Jordan Banks

Mr. Banks is currently the managing partner at Thunder Road Capital which is a company he founded in 2008 to provide investment and advisory services to early stage technology companies.

Before launching Thunder Road Capital, he was the chief executive officer of JumpTV (TSX: NLN), a leading broadcaster of sports and international television over the Internet. Hired in 2007, he was a key architect of the merger in the summer of 2008 of JumpTV and NeuLion Inc., a company owned by former Computer Associates founder and CEO Charles Wang.

Prior to joining JumpTV, he served as the managing director of eBay Canada, the number one online shopping destination in Canada. He helped launch eBay Canada in 2000 and was the second employee of the Canadian office of eBay Inc.

In his role of managing director at eBay Canada, he had overall responsibility for the ongoing development of eBay Canada including operations, strategy, and marketing, as well as building the eBay brand and community of users in Canada. His team was responsible for growing the activity of Canadians on eBay to over one billion dollars in 2007 which accounted for approximately 25 per cent of all Canadian e-commerce activity.

Before joining eBay Canada, he managed the Licensing and International Business group at the National Hockey League Players’ Association. In this role, he was responsible for supervising and managing global retail product licensees, negotiating license and international event agreements, and identifying and pursuing new areas of business for the organization. A lawyer by profession, he also practiced corporate law at Goodmans in Toronto.

He is the founder of the recently launched Twitter movement called “A Million Tweets to Remember” which seeks to digitally memorialize a million people globally who have suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. He is also the founder and chairman of Sportsfest, a non-profit organization focused on raising funds for Alzheimer's research and care which, to date, has raised over one million dollars. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Well.ca, Peerset, the Baycrest Centre and the Moses and Temara Tobe Foundation, as well as sitting on the Advisory Boards of The Mark, Next Pathway, Brendan Moore & Associates, Recruitingblogs.com, and the Canadian Innovation Exchange. He is also one of seven business leaders who form the Canadian Football League’s “Commissioner's Council", dedicated to the future growth of the CFL and he is also a member of The Globe and Mail’s Small Business Incubator Panel.

He is a member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and, in May 2006, he was named one of Canada's “Top 40 Under 40” honorees – a celebrated, national program that honors leaders for their achievements in leadership, vision, innovation, community involvement and contribution. In 2006, he was also named one of the four inaugural winners of the Hugo Boss “Leave a Mark Award” celebrating “men of excellence” in Canada.