Bert Amato is an investor and consultant in the high-technology industry. He currently sits as an advisory board member of several firms, including

XDL Intervest Management A continuous flow intersection (CFI), also called a crossover displaced left-turn (XDL or DLT), is an alternative design for an intersection (road), at-grade road junction. Vehicles attempting to turn across the opposing direction of traffic (lef ...

, Farelogix and Infotriever. Born in

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, he emigrated to Canada, where he received a degree in

industrial engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

from the

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. He helped co-found

Delrina Delrina Corporation was a Canadian software company active from 1988 to 1995. The company was best known for WinFax, a software package which enabled computers equipped with fax modems to transmit copies of documents to standalone fax machines or ...

in 1988 along with

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n expatriates

Mark Skapinker Mark Skapinker is a Managing Partner at Brightspark Ventures, Brightspark, a software, Internet and Mobile venture capital firm with offices in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Brightspark has twice won the Canadian Venture C ...

and

Dennis Bennie Dennis Bennie is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor based in Toronto, Canada. He co-founded Mission Electronics in 1979; co-founded Aviva Software in 1982; co-founded Delrina in 1988; raised two venture funds under XDL Group and is curren ...

. The previous year, he and Skapinker came up with the idea of creating electronic business form software. They met with Bennie, who was then the

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of Carolian Systems International, a firm that made business software for

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. He arranged for an initial seed investment of $1.5 million

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to create a new start-up company to develop this idea, which was called "Delrina". From 1988 to 1995 he was executive vice president and chief technical officer of Delrina, where he was responsible for product research. He helped to orchestrate the sale of the firm to

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in November 1995, and for one year served as a vice president on that firm's board.

External links

Biographical blurb as a member of XDL Intervest's board of directors
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20050209104558/http://www.symantec.com/press/1996/n960514.html Symantec Press release from May 14, 1996: "Delrina Co-Founders Step Down & Hand Over Reins" {{DEFAULTSORT:Amato, Bert Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Toronto alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Zimbabwean emigrants to Canada Delrina