Business Overview
45 years in the tech sector
I initially worked as a mobile products engineering manager for Motorola in their wireless data division, developing 1st generation public network mobile computing devices in the 1980s.
In the 1990s I founded and ran 2 wireless tech companies, PCS Wireless (micro-cells, a precursor to WiFi networks) and Intrinsyc Software (IoT).
In the 2000s I helped build BC Advantage Funds as a board and investment committee member, and advised Quorum Fund in Toronto and Bessemer Venture Partners in NYC on tech transactions, and was CEO of a mobile app analytics company, Mobidia, which was sold to App Annie/Data.ai in 2015.
In the 2010s & 2020s I was a Director of the BC Discovery Fund from 2017 until 2020, a Partner/Managing Director of ScaleUP Ventures (a corporate Canada backed VC firm) from 2016 to 2019, General Partner of MTI LP from 2015 to 2024 and Executive Chairman and then CEO of TTGI from 2019 to 2024.
I have been a member of YPO since 2005 and a YPO Mentor from 2021 to 2024.
I was fortunate to have received various business awards over the years: BIV 40 under 40 CEOs, Deloitte Fast 50 (Canada), Deloitte Fast 500 (US & Canada), BC Business Tech 100, and National Post 27th Fastest Growing Tech Company in Canada.
Starting in the late 1990s I became more engaged in philanthropy and community building, becoming an advisor to the BC Government and the TSX Venture Exchange, and holding board positions with the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, Acetech, WinBC, DigiBC, and Wavefront. I was an early board member/investor with: Social Venture Partners (co-creating thriving sustainable and just communities), Sierra Legal Defense Fund/Earth Justice (environmental legal advocacy), BC Science-World, and the Scientist in Residence Program (giving children early exposure to science and scientists) for Vancouver schools.
I retired at the end of February 2024.