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After a 15-year career working in rural Atlantic
Canada with various businesses and economic
development organizations, Andrew founded
Mashup Lab (www.mashuplab.ca ); a
for-more-than-profit company focused on one thing:
unlocking the entrepreneurial potential of rural
communities. Mashup Lab’s activities fall under
three business units; business ideation events,
business incubation programming, and 2 rural
co-working spaces that operate under the
WorkEvolved brand (www.WorkEvolved.ca ). In
just the past 12 months Mashup Lab has
successfully scaled its Dream Business program
across all of Nova Scotia, working with 100 aspiring
entrepreneurs in 50 different rural communities to
start and grow 69 businesses, all while growing the
Andrew Button WorkEvolved rural co-working community to 60+
ELP12F Members in 2 locations. Andrew is also co-founder
Founder & CEO of Awesome South Shore (
Mashup Lab Limited www.awesomesouthshore.ca ), a community-backed
Wileville Nova Scotia micro-fund that has given away over $50,0000 cash
http://www.mashuplab.ca - no strings attached - to people that want to do
andrew@mashuplab.ca something awesome in their community.

Tim is an enthusiastic leader with 15 years of food
manufacturing experience spanning a wide range of
food processing industries.

He holds a B.Sc ., from Memorial University with a
specialization in microbiology and food safety
systems. He is a National Board Member with Food
Processing Skills Canada which leads the food
processing industry in skills development and
training and holds a position on the Board of
Directors for Chocolate Festival Inc.
Tim Byrne
SEP11L Prior to joining Ganong in 2013, Tim travelled
Director Operations North America performing microbiological
Ganong Bros. Ltd. investigations and conducting food safety and
St. Stephen New Brunswick quality audits. Presently, Tim holds the Director of
https://ganong.com/ Operations position with Ganong Bros., LTD.,
tbyrne@ganong.com Canada’s oldest independently family owned
chocolate and confectionary company, located in St.
Stephen, New Brunswick.

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