Dr. Guy Bridgeman, Director
Dr. Bridgeman is Senior Vice-President, Strategic Planning & Development, EPCOR Utilities Inc., a company providing water and wastewater services, and electricity distribution and transmission services to customers in Alberta and British Columbia. Dr. Bridgeman joined EPCOR Utilities Inc. in November 1995 as Director of Regulatory Affairs and served in that capacity for four years. From 1999 to 2002, he served in various senior planning and business development capacities within the company before moving to EPCOR’s Distribution & Transmission and Energy Services in 2002, which he led from November 2005 until taking on his current role in July 2009. From 1989 to 1995, Dr. Bridgeman was a senior economist with the Alberta Government's Department of Energy, focusing on oil and gas regulatory issues. He played a leading role in the province's first round of electricity industry deregulation initiatives, introduced in 1996. Dr. Bridgeman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, London.
Allan Brett, Director
Mr. Brett has been the Chief Financial Officer of Aastra Technologies Limited since 1996. Aastra is a public company which develops and markets IP-based enterprise communication products. Mr. Brett is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Business Valuator and holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from the University of Waterloo.
Peter Crombie, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Crombie is a Corporate Director. Mr. Crombie was a partner with Emerald Technology Ventures AG from April 2005 until March 2009 and then Senior Advisor until December 2009. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of OPG Ventures Inc. (an energy technology venture capital fund owned entirely by Ontario Power Generation Inc.) from April 2001 to March 2005. Mr. Crombie currently serves on the boards of GrowthWorks Canadian Fund and GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund (both Canadian labour-sponsored venture capital funds). He also serves on the Investment Committee of Sustainable Development Technology Canada. Mr. Crombie has over 30 years of business experience working principally with high technology companies in financial, investment and senior executive roles. Mr. Crombie is a Chartered Accountant and has a Designation in Corporate Finance. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Concordia University, Montreal and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, Montreal.
J. Ian Giffen, Director
Mr. Giffen serves as an advisor and/or director to technology companies and investment funds. Mr. Giffen is currently a director of Absolute Software Inc. Mosaid Inc, and a number of private companies. Since 1996, Mr. Giffen has advised several private venture investment funds and has served on the boards of a number of public and private companies including Macromedia Inc. (from 1997-2005 until it was sold to Adobe Systems Inc. for $4 billion), Descartes Systems Group Inc , MKS Inc , DPS Inc., MGI Software Inc., Delano Technology Inc., Corel Corporation Inc., Certicom Inc., Financial Models Inc., 724 Solutions Inc., Sierra Systems Inc., Open Text Inc., DWL Inc., Algorithmics Inc. and Changepoint Inc. Mr. Giffen is a Chartered Accountant and has a Designation in Corporate Finance. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and worked with KPMG in Glasgow from 1978-1982.
Marzio Pozzuoli, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Pozzuoli is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of RuggedCom. Mr. Pozzuoli has over 20 years experience developing technology for the industrial process and electric power markets. Prior to founding RuggedCom, Mr. Pozzuoli was the Technology Manager for General Electric's Power Management division where he was responsible for technology development and the successful introduction of major new product lines in the area of power system protection and control. Mr. Pozzuoli is the inventor of record of multiple patents related to advances in communications, protective relaying technology and automation technology. Mr. Pozzuoli is also an active member of the IEEE where he is involved with standards work as part of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Substations Committee Task Force. Mr. Pozzuoli holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Technology degree from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto.
C. Ian Ross, Director
Mr. Ross is currently the chairman of Growthworks Canadian Fund Ltd., chairman of Menu Foods Income Trust, a director of Ontario Power Generation Inc., a director of Clearford Industries Inc. and a director of Walton Ontario Land L.P. 1. Mr. Ross has extensive management and transactional experience having previously been the president and chief executive officer of a number of paper product companies. Mr. Ross is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Dr. Harry Zarek, Director
Dr. Zarek is President and Chief Executive Officer of Compugen Systems Ltd., one of Canada's largest information technology companies, which he founded in 1981. With offices across Canada, a staff of 850 and revenues of $350 million, the company provides technology infrastructure solutions focused on medium and large corporations and governments. Dr. Zarek holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto and he is an active investor and member of the board of directors of a number of early stage technology companies in Canada and the United States.