Roland Austrup
Member of the Executive Committee, Chief Growth Officer
Roland has served as Innventure’s Chief Growth Officer since June 2024 and as a member of Innventure’s Executive Committee since 2023. Prior to his change of title to Chief Growth Officer in June 2024, Roland had served as Head of Capital Markets since 2023, and he also previously served as Innventure’s Chief Financial Officer from 2021 to 2023. He also serves as Chairman of WaveFront Global Asset Management Corp., a $1.7 billion assets under management (‘‘AUM’’) Toronto-based global hedge fund company he co-founded in 2003. Roland is also a co-founder of Envest Corp., a downstream energy company, and an Advisory Board member of both the Master of Quantitative Finance program at the University of Waterloo and First Tracks Capital, a Canadian private equity firm. Prior to that, Roland was an Investment Advisor with BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and began his career as a Commodities Broker with Scotia McLeod Inc. where he was primarily involved with hedging commodity price risk for corporate clients. Roland holds a B.A. with Honours from the University of Western Ontario.