Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area
High-tech executive and entrepreneur, with twenty years of international experience. Held senior level positions with larger global companies such as Assent, Irdeto, Nortel, Motorola, and Newbridge as well as CEO and founding roles with smaller and medium sized firms. Innovative and results-driven leader. Major strengths include business planning, product development and sales. Strong focus on large data-driven SaaS solutions, cloud and AI. Passionate about growing companies and building world-class teams with amazing positive culture. Customer focused having done business globally in both well developed and emerging markets. Corporate development/M&A experience with several successful integrations. Board level experience. Excellent track record of launching new products/services and delivering results to shareholders. A “40 under Forty” award winner and a Registered Professional Engineer. • Senior executive with extensive international experience growing revenues for global firms. • Transformation and cultural change. High energy. Innovation focused leader. CEO. • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Security Software. Large Software Systems. • Successful entrepreneurial track record of launching new products and new lines of business. • Strong Product Management, Engineering/Development and technical knowledge. • Sales & Marketing senior roles. Strategic C-suite multi-level selling. • M&A, integration and corporate restructuring. Board level experience. • Startups: founder and senior roles. Successful exits.
Lytica is an electronic component spend analytics and risk intelligence company that uses real customer data to help companies make their supply chain more cost transparent, more resilient, and more predictable. Lytica’s advanced electronic component market intelligence platform employs machine learning and AI to analyze real-world pricing data, offering true market insights to reduce costs and mitigate supply chain risk. Fortune 500 and blue chip companies around the world rely on Lytica to find better prices, manufacturers, and suppliers.
Assent Compliance is the global leader in supply chain data management. Assent provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that manage third-party data to protect corporate brands, increase market accessibility, and reduce risk. Responsible for all aspects of the platform vision, leading the following teams: Product Management, Engineering/R&D, UX/Product Design, Data Strategy, AI/Machine Learning and Security. The Chief Product Officer sits at the intersection of business requirements, technology and user experience, overseeing product development from conception to market adoption.
Irdeto is a world leader in media protection, multi-screen and revenue assurance solutions for pay TV operators, OTT service providers and content owners. Irdeto enables pay media companies to provide a personal media experience for their consumers, uncover new revenue opportunities and offer new forms of entertainment on broadcast, broadband and mobile networks. The company offers an advanced portfolio of conditional access, multi-rights management, OTT multi-screen, home networking, piracy control and business intelligence services. Irdeto is a subsidiary of Naspers (JSE: NPN) - a multi-billion global platform operator with principal operations in internet services, ecommerce, pay television and print media. Led the international team that produced all of Irdeto's products delivering the bulk of the company’s revenue. As Senior Vice President, Products and Solutions, oversaw globally all aspects of product direction, strategy and development including Product Management, Engineering and Technology teams.
Ambercore developed enterprise-scale big-data knowledge solutions for energy, mining and infrastructure industries. Ambercore’s data mining software and services dealt with extremely large 3D data sets. Strong focus on spatial data and associated applications including handling structured and unstructured data, predictive analysis, business intelligence and various visualization techniques. As President and CEO of Ambercore, responsible for creating the company’s vision, building strong teams and establishing an international customer base in both well developed and emerging markets.
Centrepoint was a leading provider of SME communication solutions.