Pond is the Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder of Mariner Partners Inc. and has co-founded a number of successful ICT start-ups including, Propel ICT, the Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick, and East Valley Ventures. He is a Director of the NB Business Council and Propel ICT.
Among many awards and achievements, including the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, the Order of New Brunswick, the Business Development Bank of Canada Entrepreneurship Champion, the 2017 EY Atlantic Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017 Gerry was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada.
See Gordon Pitts’ book, “Unicorn in the Woods”, published in 2020, for Gerry’s contribution to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Atlantic Canada. In 2022, Gerry was inducted into the InnovateNB Hall of Fame.
