Our latest version of Volaris in the Media features mentions of Volaris Group leaders in industry publications throughout the spring and summer of 2025.
This roundup showcases the vertical market expertise that we nurture within the Volaris network, along with our leaders’ ongoing commitment to maintaining strong relationships within their industries and deep knowledge of industry and regional trends.
Volaris Executive Chairman discusses Canada’s entrepreneurial culture at the NACO Summit
A day after the Canadian election, Mark Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Constellation Software and Executive Chairman at Volaris Group, spoke at the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) summit in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
The event brought together close to 500 tech leaders and investors to discuss the state of Canada’s entrepreneurial culture and how innovators and entrepreneurs can build a bold vision of Canada’s economic future. During a panel, Miller shared the stage with Shelley Kuipers, co-founder and CEO of The51, in a discussion moderated by Amanda Lang, business journalist and Chief Financial Correspondent at CTV.
He encouraged young people to shift away from worshipping the “big exit’” and instead be inspired by what is called the “Mittelstand” in Germany, where the culture reveres small to mid-sized businesses that are “focused on doing something that really matters to solve lasting problems.”
His comments were included in an article published in the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper.
- Read the Toronto Star article: Angels and demons: Tech investors gather and wonder – how can we fix Canada’s stale entrepreneurial culture?
Shipnet CEO speaks about AI impacts to Maritime Reporter TV at Nor-Shipping 2025
Terje Kristiansen, CEO of Shipnet, was interviewed by Greg Trauthwein, Editor of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News at Nor-Shipping 2025 in Oslo, about how artificial intelligence will impact the shipping industry.
Kristiansen has been in the shipping industry since 1996 and said he has seen increased commercialization of AI over several months, seeing it used for internal processes, customer experience, and R&D. He expects to see AI drive efficiencies in operational matters, including safety at sea, navigation, and green issues such as emissions.
Established in 1939, Maritime Reporter & Engineering News is the world’s largest audited circulation B2B publication serving the global maritime industry. Nor-Shipping is an industry conference for the shipping and ocean industries that takes place every two years, attracting key policymakers and decision-makers from across the world to connect, collaborate, and do business.
- Watch the interview: AI & Maritime: It’s a Matter of Trust
agentOS PropTech Group CEO joins Griffin’s panel of experts to talk about new AML rules for the UK property industry
Glyn Trott, CEO of agentOS PropTech Group, was featured on an online panel of experts to discuss updated regulations in anti-money laundering (AML) introduced by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). The regulations, introduced in May 2025, mandate that all UK letting agents must check tenants, landlords, and other clients against the UK’s official sanctions list and report any matches. The regulations are meant to prevent the property market from being used to move or conceal illicit funds. Trott’s group is behind the product Calmony, which provides letting agents with a technical solution to help them comply with regulations.
The webinar was hosted by Griffin, a licensed British bank and banking-as-a-service provider. The discussion gave an overview of the new regulations, the vulnerabilities that can come from third-party payments that were not covered in initial tenant checks, what letting agents need to know about potential prosecution and liability, and how to turn compliance into cost-saving and revenue-generating opportunities.
- Watch the webinar: Preparing for the upcoming AML changes in proptech
Agronomix Software CEO speaks about how M&A can support innovation in Middle Market Growth
Agronomix Software CEO Chris Leonard was quoted in Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, a community for middle-market M&A professionals. In the article, he speaks about how M&A can support emerging advancements and innovations in plant genetics.
Leonard is bullish on AI adoption and acknowledges that progress in tech adoption within the plant genetics space requires patience, since it takes time to develop new solutions and assess their performance through several planting and growing seasons. He says the long-term nature of the industry helped Agronomix choose the right M&A partner in Volaris Group in 2022. Agronomix Software was acquired by Cultura Technologies, an agri-food portfolio within Volaris Group. The promise by Volaris to never sell the company is “one of the driving forces that made us stick with them through the years,” he said.
Leonard says that smaller organizations can achieve bigger things by selling to the right M&A partner: “They’re going to be given the tools they need to go up to the next level to become a bigger organization. The conversations that I have with M&A often revolve around those comments: We are better together. We have real industry problems that we can solve if we work together.”
- Read the article: Plant Genetics Businesses, Ripe for Innovation, Pick their M&A Partners
ResRequest CEO embraces partnership with Adapt IT in ITWeb
ResRequest CEO Jill Bennett-Howes spoke to ITWeb about the benefits of being acquired by Adapt IT, a South Africa-based acquirer of software businesses. AdaptIT sits within Omegro, a portfolio of Volaris Group.
“This partnership empowers us to keep building tools that simplify our customers’ work and deliver greater impact. What drew us to this group was their long-term vision and shared belief in purposeful, people-centred innovation.”
The article was published on ITWeb, a daily news site focused on technology in South Africa.
- Read the article: Adapt IT buys ResRequest in hospitality industry push
Dragintra founder talks about thriving under the Volaris Group umbrella in Fleet.be
Bart de Hoog, founder and General Manager of Dragintra, was quoted in an article in Fleet.be about the benefits of being acquired by Volaris Group. Dragintra is a leading specialist in fleet and mobility management across Europe that was acquired by Volaris Group in 2024. Fleet.be is a media company behind magazines, a TV channel, and events for the fleet management and mobility industry.
He shared: “The acquisition by Volaris guarantees not only continuity but also decisiveness in an increasingly competitive market… They let us do our thing, but support us where necessary. That’s exactly what we need to take the next step.”
The article notes that Dragintra has already secured several new contracts since its acquisition in 2024, as well as improved operations and efficiency.
- Read the article: Dragintra and Volaris Group join forces (Original article is in Dutch)
Volaris Group Communications Coordinator Katy Smith was a contributor to this article.
