Ian D. Robertson
General Counsel & Secretary
Ian was the Founder, President and CEO of Novus Communications/ Entertainment, and is a practicing lawyer with expertise in Communications, Internet & Telephony, and a Director of numerous Public & Private Companies. Ian's firm has represented clients involved in land line and wireless telecommunications, cable television, internet and telephony services. He is regularly in contact with the CRTC, Industry Canada and other federal departments and regulators, and advises on municipal rights of way and building access issues. Ian has also assisted technology companies at all stages of their development from start up to maturity with corporate structuring, angel and venture financing, joint ventures and licensing issues.
Scott Jamieson
President & CEO
Scott is building a2b Fiber with a focus on organizational systems and procedures, as well as project planning and client communications. With ten years of Fiber Network Engineering and Operations experience, as well as five years as the National Manager of the Fiber Optic Engineering Department of Group Telecom, with experience managing a $100M Capital Budget for Network Deployment, Scott understands the dynamics of being a customer-focused total solutions provider.
Andrew Csinger
Director
Andrew Csinger has held a variety of executive management roles and advises senior management on technology transfer, market and corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions in the high technology arena.
Dr. Csinger is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor in the Cognitive Systems Group. Andrew was recently EVP of Product Strategy and Development at Dategrity Corp., a spin-out from the Votehere Corporation.
Andrew was Senior VP and CIO of Group Telecom from 1998 to 2002. GT's successful initial public offering took place in March 1999. During this period, GT became Canada's most successful Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, with 400,000 kilometers of fibre, 1500 employees in offices from coast to coast, a quarter billion revenue run rate and over a billion dollars in financing.
Andrew received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. A Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, and a visiting scholar at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrucken, his work on artificial intelligence techniques has appeared in journals and conferences around the world.
John F. Morgan
Director
John is currently Chairman and Strategic Advisor to Russell Brewing Company, a Vancouver based company with breweries in Surrey, BC and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
John is a career marketer, who has spent 30 years marketing "fast moving consumer products" across Canada and the US and in many European countries.
He has worked for both product manufacturers and advertising agencies, including such household names as Kellogg's, Colgate Palmolive, Leo Burnett Advertising, Warner-Lambert and Labatt Brewing.
Previously, the President of Labatt's Breweries and more recently the CEO of Versacold, Canada's largest cold storage provider, John has acquired extensive experience with management issues in both public and private companies.
John has lectured in Marketing at three Canadian Universities and is currently Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Simon Fraser University and is teaching Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser's Business School.
John sits as a director of Russell Brewing Company, Power Disc Development Corp., Cristopher James Gold Corp, A2B Fiber Inc., and Budget Blinds of the Fraser Valley.
Gary Oliver