Our Foundation

Mr. Smith is a co-founder of DCBank and is the President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Smith is an entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in operating, financing, growing and managing large scale international financial services businesses. Mr. Smith was the President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and co-founder of DirectCash Payments Inc., a publicly traded financial services company with operations in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Mexico. Mr. Smith has extensive experience in business valuation, the public equity and debt capital markets. Mr. Smith has sourced, negotiated, financed, and integrated numerous acquisitions in Canada and internationally. In 2013, Mr. Smith was honoured as Industry Person of the Year – Prepaid & Payments by Payments eXchange, and in 2005, he was the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Prairies Region).

Ms. Anderson is a serial fin - tech entrepreneur and a mentor to both start up and scale up entrepreneurs.

She and a co-founder started DirectCash Payments Inc., a publicly traded financial services company in 1997. DirectCash Payments grew from two employees to be the second largest ATM company in the world with revenue over $400M and 425 employees worldwide until its sale in January 2017. In 2008, Susan co- founded Digital Commerce Bank, a private Canadian chartered financial institution and was its founding President & CEO for over 7 years and is currently the Chair of the Board. As well, Susan is a co-founder of Bitvo, a leading crypto currency exchange in Canada. 

Currently, she is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cannonball Capital Inc., which is an active institutional investor in venture companies, private and public equities as well as commercial real estate and multi family apartments.  

She is the Chair of the Board of Endeavor Canada which selects and mentors scale up companies. 

Susan is on the board of directors of the My First Bicycle Foundation, Cannonball Sport and Education Foundation, Canada’s Sport Hall of Fame, Hockey Canada Foundation and Digital Commerce Bank. She is on the strategic advisory board of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the President’s Advancement Council at the University of Alberta. 

In 2010, Susan received an Alumni Honour Award from the University of Alberta. Ms. Anderson was also honoured as one of the “most powerful women” in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network in 2010. She was the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Prairies Region) award in 2005. 

Ms. Anderson graduated with distinction with a commerce degree from the University of Calgary in 1984 and in 1988 obtained a law degree from the University of Alberta. 

She has two grown sons and is an avid traveller, hiker, golfer and pickleball player. 

Mr. McCallum has held numerous leadership roles providing a broad range of business experience for both retail and digital channels nationally. Mr. McCallum led all aspects of the H&R Block Do-It-Yourself Tax Software business including product development, as well as acquisition and strategy. He led the development and growth of new and existing products and services through 1,100 retail locations and the digital channel. He has also led the development of strategic partners - RBC, Yodlee, CIBC, National Bank, including management of national accounts for Loblaws, Sears, HBC and Walmart. Mr. McCallum worked internationally, responsible for implementation of new growth opportunities in both the United Kingdom (Barclays Bank) and Australia (GE Capital). He has also been involved in the cycling community both locally and nationally through club and team sponsorships, and the founder of one of Canada’s most successful pro cycling teams H&R Block Pro Cycling Team.