Ian D. Robertson - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Robertson has over 30 years of business and legal experience in the communications industry specializing in cable television, telephone, internet, VoiP and video on demand. From 1996 to 2003, he was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Novus Telecom Group Inc. (now Novus Entertainment), a communications company that provides voice, video and data services in Metro Vancouver. During his tenure at Novus the company built an extensive high count fibre optic network throughout Vancouver. From 1995 to 1997 Mr. Robertson was Chairman of NST Network Services Ltd. of Chicago, Illinois, a fibre network contraction company. From 1993 to 1995 he was President of Canadian CEO of Diva Systems Inc., a VOD service provider based in Menlo Park, California. From 1991 to 1993 he was the President and CEO of Canadian Turbo/Payless Gas/Columbia Fuels, then Canada’s fifth largest integrated petroleum refiner/retailer with gross revenue of over $1 Billion. Prior to joining Turbo Mr. Robertson was a senior partner in the national law firm of Lang Michener. Mr. Robertson is currently a senior partner in the Vancouver law firm of Robertson Neil LLP. He is a director of several publically traded and private corporations.
Scott Jamieson - President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
Mr. Jamieson has 20 years of Fibre Network Engineering and Operations experience, including five years as the National Manager of the Fibre Optic Engineering Department of Group Telecom, with management responsibility for a $100M capital budget for network deployment and 400,000 fibre kilometers of plant, 15 employees in offices from coast to coast, and fibre systems responsibility within a company with a quarter billion revenue run rate and over a billion dollars in financing.
Dr. Andrew Csinger
Director
Dr. Csinger is Entrepreneur in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the Cognitive Systems Group at the University of British Columbia. He is advisor or director to several startups and is on the Board of Advisors of ISSNet, an NSERC funded research network focused on computer and network security, and is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the Vancouver Institute of Visual Analytics.
Dr. Csinger was 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. In 1998, he developed and operated the first PKI Certification Authority and Repository to be licensed under Washington State Digital Signature legislation. This seminal work influenced the later adoption of federal U.S. law (the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000, or "E-Sign Act"), and was an early model for the adoption by other states of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). In 1996, he founded Xcert Software Inc. (acquired by RSA Technologies), a technology leader in the emerging business of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Andrew has been both mentor and reviewer for the New Ventures BC business plan competition since 2007.
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. He holds several patents in internet security, biometrics, and related areas.
John F. Morgan
Director
John Morgan is managing Partner of Turning Point Partners LLP, a business advisor firm. Mr. Morgan is also Chairman and strategic advisor to Russell Breweries Inc., a Vancouver based Craft Brewer with breweries in Metro Vancouver, B.C. and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
John is a career marketer, who has spent 30 years marketing “fast moving consumer products” across Canada and the United States and in many European countries. During his career, he has worked on a range of products from candy and confectionary to automobiles. 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. During his career he has lived and worked in five Canadian Provinces as well as Great Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Spain.
From ? to ? John was the President of Labatt’s Breweries the largest brewing company in Canada. From ? to ? John served as CEO of Versacold, Canada’s largest cold storage provider. He has also owned and operated numerous personal enterprises and acquired extensive experience with management and fund raising issues in smaller public and private companies. John is also Adjunct Professor in Business Administration of Faculty of Simon Fraser University.
Gary Oliver - Director
Gary Oliver is one of the most experienced communications executives in Canada with over 35 years experience in senior management positions in sales/marketing and general management. From 1990 to 1996 Gary was President and Chief Operating Office of Rogers Network Services Inc., where he oversaw the construction and maintenance of one of the largest fibre optic networks in Canada. From 1996 to 1998 he was Executive Vice President of AT&T Canada and Metronet Communications, the company that purchased Rogers Network Services. In 1999 Gary joined Novus Telecom Group Inc. where he was President and CEO until he retired in 2001.