Erik Mikkelsen

Erik Mikkelsen is an entrepreneur, investor, and business leader with a track record of building and scaling companies. He is Managing Partner of Norwind Capital, a private investment firm he founded in 2019 focused on early-stage, high-growth businesses, small-cap private equity, and real estate. He is also Managing Partner of Auxo Management LP, which he co-founded in 2010, and Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Development at ECAM, a technology-driven video surveillance company with more than 3,000 employees, owned by GardaWorld.

From 2011 to 2024, Erik served as President and Chief Revenue Officer of Stealth Monitoring, which Auxo acquired in 2011 and sold to GardaWorld in 2024. During his tenure, he led the company’s growth from 55 to more than 2,000 employees and increased revenue more than thirtyfold. He also helped raise over $300 million in debt and equity financing and led five acquisitions.

Erik’s experience spans entrepreneurship, private equity, investment banking, and real estate. Throughout his career, he has worked on more than $30 billion in completed transactions, ranging from under $1 million to several billion dollars. Earlier in his career, he worked at Regent Properties, a real estate private equity firm in Los Angeles, and in the Leveraged Finance Investment Banking group at Barclays Capital in New York. His entrepreneurial career began at university, where he co-founded Ink Media, a new media development company, and co-led its business development function. Today, he remains an active investor in and advisor to several startups.

Erik graduated with distinction from Ivey Business School at Western University with an Honours Business Administration degree. He is a recipient of the Ivey Emerging Leaders Award for Entrepreneurship and the Class of 2006 Ivey Entrepreneurship Ambassador Award. He serves on Ivey Business School’s Advisory Board, the Executive Committee of the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, and the Investment Committee of Western University’s Propel Fund. He also completed executive education in artificial intelligence for business through the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

An active community volunteer, Erik co-founded CAMH Engage in 2013 to support strategy and fundraising initiatives for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation. He is a member of YPO and has lectured at business schools in Canada and the United States. Born in London, England, and raised in Western Canada, Erik grew up playing ice hockey and lacrosse and is the proud father of two boys.