CHAR Technologies Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Hugh Cleland, CFA to the Board of Directors. Hugh is co-founder and principal at Roadmap Capital, a venture capital investment platform designed to connect ultra high net worth investors with opportunities to invest in companies that have developed disruptive technologies. Roadmap and its investors have invested more than $180M in VC-stage tech companies. Sectors include semiconductors, cybersecurity, material sciences, and medical devices. Mr. Cleland is a member of the Board of Directors of Ubilite Inc, Perimeter Medical Imaging, MMB and Corsa Security, and is an observer on the Board of Peraso Technologies, a 5G semiconductor company which recently announced a pending go-public transaction on NASDAQ through a reverse merger with MoSys Inc. He was founding portfolio manager at Northern Rivers Capital Management ("Northern Rivers"), where he managed the Northern Rivers Innovation Fund from May of 2001 until Northern Rivers was acquired by BluMont Capital in February of 2010, winning the “Opportunistic Strategy Hedge Fund Award” at the Canadian Investment Awards in 2006. He co-founded Roadmap Capital Inc. in the summer of 2013. Mr. Cleland has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours, 1992/97) from Harvard University and earned his CFA designation in 2001.