Connecting Vision to Reality 2009
Keynote Speakers
Peter Jensen, world-renowned consultant
Dr. Peter Jensen is a dynamic speaker with a Ph.D. in Sport Psychology. An authority on leadership, he is a renowned innovator — bringing coaching and personal high performance to corporations worldwide.
Peter has attended six Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian Olympic Team and has helped numerous athletes achieve high performance levels under intense pressure including, most recently, the gold-medal winning Women's Hockey team. With the world of Olympic-level sport as a laboratory, he has developed a deep understanding of what it takes to be a successful leader of high performers.
Peter is a top-rated instructor in seven programs at the Queen's School of Business including the MBA for Science and Technology program that, in 2004, was ranked by Business Week as the number one MBA outside the United States. He also helped design the Queen's Executive Leadership Program. He is a founding director of Performance Coaching Inc., one of Canada's leading corporate training firms. Fortune 500 companies in eight countries have benefited from Peter's programs.
Peter combines fundamental leadership concepts with new ideas and ongoing insights from Olympic coaches and corporate leaders. He distills diverse approaches and brings practical clarity to effective leadership skills by sharing their tangible application in the business world.
P. Thomas Jenkins is Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Open Text Corp., based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has served as a Director of Open Text since December 1994 as its Chairman since June 30, 1998 and most recently as its Executive Chairman since June 30, 2005. From July 1994 to July 1997, Tom was President of Open Text and from July 1997 until July 2005, Tom served as Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. Tom was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of the company in August 2005 and currently serves in that capacity. From December 1986 until June 1994, Tom held several executive positions with DALSA Inc., an electronic imaging manufacturer based in Waterloo. Prior to these positions, Tom was employed in a variety of technical and managerial capacities at a variety of information technology-based companies in Canada.
In addition to his Open Text responsibilities, Tom is the Chair of the Federal Centre of Excellence Corridor for Advancing Canadian Digital Media (CACDM).He is also an appointed member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), an appointed member of the Government of Canada's Competition Policy Review Panel, and appointed member of the Province of Ontario's Ontario Commercialization Network Steering Committee (OCN). Tom is also currently a member of the board of BMC Software, Inc. a software corporation based in Houston, Texas.
Speakers
Jocelyn Arel, a partner in Goodwin Procter's Corporate and Technology Companies Groups, focuses her practice on corporate and securities law matters, with an emphasis on securities offerings and merger and acquisition transactions. She joined Goodwin Procter in 2005.Jocelyn represents issuers in a wide range of capital market transactions, including initial and follow-on public offerings, private placements of debt and equity, alternative financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. She has extensive experience in cross-border financings and acquisitions, as well as in providing advice on other U.S.-based activities for companies headquartered in Canada. A significant portion of Jocelyn's practice includes counseling clients on ongoing reporting requirements of public companies, corporate governance matters and various other matters affecting public companies, their officers and directors. She also serves as counsel to underwriters in initial and follow-on public offerings, 144A, Registered Direct and PIPE transactions.
John Beardwood, Fasken Martineau
John Beardwood is a partner of Fasken Martineau. John is engaged in a corporate/commercial practice, with an emphasis on outsourcing, technology, and privacy law related matters. John is listed among the world's preeminent Internet and e-commerce lawyers in Who's Who Legal — The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. He is consistently recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for information technology law and recommended as a leading outsourcing practitioner in the PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook and in the PLC Outsourcing Handbook.
John works closely with clients in preparing and negotiating various technology-related transactions, including outsourcing, licensing, implementation, distribution, technology transfer, strategic alliance and e-commerce related transactions, including in the airline, health care and financial/insurance institution context. John often advises clients on privacy law and access to information matters, and has managed more than 60 privacy compliance programs. He is a frequent speaker and publisher on various IT law and privacy law-related topics and has been interviewed for CBC Metro Morning, The Globe and Mail, ITBusiness.ca, Computing Canada, CBC Marketplace, Canadian Business Magazine and 1010 CFRB, and was featured on the cover of CBA National Magazine for the article "The Outsourcing Lawyers". John is the co-editor and a contributing author of the industry-leading text Outsourcing Transactions: A Practical Guide, now in its 3rd Edition.
John is Co-Chair of the National Technology and Intellectual Property Group, Co-Chair of the Outsourcing Group, and Vice-Director of the Privacy and Information Protection Practice Group.
Albert Behr, Behr & Associates
Albert Behr, in his 20 years of professional experience, has led both the financing and operational execution of some of North America's and Asia's most famous technology companies. Prior to his current work of assisting/funding numerous cleantech and information technology companies at the executive and board-level through his company, Behr & Associates Inc., Albert was involved in Investment Banking funding and operationally driving some of the most promising technology firms in Canada.
He assisted in the funding and performed the function of Chief Strategy Officer for BorderWare Technologies, a leading vendor of network security products. Also Albert has performed the role of COO of NRG Group, a TSE-listed venture capital firm. Before that, Albert was Vice President Marketing and Product Management for Platform Computing Corporation, a Toronto-based enterprise load-balancing software firm. Internationally, Albert was VP Marketing and Product Management for Seattle-based Sequel Corporation, specializing in Internet access and control software for Fortune 1000 and Government customers, and Senior Director of Marketing for Symantec Corporation in Silicon Valley, California. He joined Symantec following the $560 million acquisition of Delrina, where he was Senior Director of Marketing. Before that, Albert resided in Tokyo Japan and had the role of Director International Marketing for Fujitsu Corporation. Albert has also held numerous other senior product management, marketing, and business development positions in North America and Europe for AT&T and NCR.
Scott Clark, Covington Capital Corporation
Scott joined Covington in March 2001, bringing with him close to 20 years of investment experience. In his role of Managing Director, Scott is responsible for assessing new business opportunities, negotiating and structuring transactions and actively advising investee companies in their daily operations.
Prior to joining Covington, Scott was a Vice-President at Harrowston Inc., where he assisted in the formulation of a venture capital investment strategy to expand Harrowston beyond traditional buyouts. Scott was also a Vice-President at Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc. for six years, where he executed numerous venture investments transactions across Canada. Prior to Working Ventures, Scott held various positions at the Business Development Bank of Canada.
Scott currently sits on the Board of Directors of Adventus Remediation Technologies, Cyence International Inc., Business Propulsion Systems Inc., Echelon General Insurance, Linea Marketing Group, MMIST Inc., and TNR Industrial Doors Inc. Among Scott's most recent successful divestitures are ProShred and Golf Town. Golf Town now trades as an income trust on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Audrey Diamant, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Audrey is a partner leading the Indirect Tax Practice in the North Toronto office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Audrey specializes in, among other things, GST and cross-border issues, E-Business and telecommunications/hi-tech, GST and the not-for-profit sector, and provincial retail sales taxes.
She has practiced in the commodity tax area for more than 20 years and provided consulting services to the Canadian Department of Finance during the implementation stage of the Canadian Goods and Services Tax ("GST"), and to the Ontario Ministry of Finance regarding software issues.
She also provides in-depth analysis and legislative interpretation to clients on the provincial retail sales tax programs, with emphasis on the inter-provincial transfer of goods and services, end-use exemptions and special status purchasers. Audrey also consults to a number of large U.S.-based clients on the intricacies of carrying on business in Canada, and regularly advises and speaks at the CICA Commodity Tax Symposium, TEI and the CICA GST Update. Audrey has held the position of co-chair/presenter (2003-2006) and is the current chair of the CICA In-Depth GST course, is chair of the sales tax committee for ITAC Ontario, and has published articles for the Canadian Tax Foundation and CCH/Carswell publications. Audrey is a recipient of the Normand Guerin award for a paper presented at the 1999 Commodity Tax Symposium.
Peter Evans, Riverdale Partners
Peter has over 15 years experience working in early-stage venture-backed technology start-ups and publicly traded companies in the software, Internet services, online media and telecommunication sectors. He has served in a number of senior roles in the technology industry including VP Marketing, PlateSpin; VP Marketing at FloNetwork (acquired by DoubleClick in 2001); Director of Research and Marketing at Sympatico/MediaLinx LLP and Associate Director, Product Management at Bell Canada.
In 2003, he founded Riverdale Partners, a boutique advisory firm focused on the unique needs of emerging and high growth businesses operating in complex markets. Since then, he has worked over 100 technology clients throughout North America from early-stage ventures to large corporate clients such as Telus, DoubleClick (just prior to its acquisition by Google) and CNW Group. Since 2005 he has served as a member of the IT Venture Group practice at the MaRS Centre, which advises entrepreneurs and high growth companies in technology markets. As part of this team he specializes in strategic planning, research, product management and channel development.
Peter currently sits on the Board of Directors of Sitebrand Inc. (an Ottawa-based CRM software company) and is an active Angel investor in a number of startups. He has previously served on the Board of Advisors of XPLANE Corp., the information design firm based in St.-Louis and the Toronto Venture Group. Educated in Cognitive Psychology and Telecommunications Management at the University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnic University, Peter holds an MBA degree from Queen's University. He is currently completing the Certificate Program in Strategic Planning & Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Peter Hyne was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Cyence International Inc. With over 35 years of management experience, 20 of which at the senior executive level, Peter founded Cyence International Inc. in 1996. Mr. Hyne provided the foresight and strategy that kept Cyence at the vanguard of innovation in software development. Under his leadership, Cyence achieved significant growth and recognition, allowing him to facilitate the sale of Cyence to Davis + Henderson Inc. for $38 million in December of 2008.
A founding member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Hyne now holds the title of Chief Business Strategist at Powerband Canada Inc.
Peter Matutat, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Peter Matutat is a partner in the Audit and Assurance Group of PwC working in the Toronto office. He is the leader of the firm's Emerging Company Practice and specializes in technology, where he advises clients ranging from early stage development companies to publicly traded multinational enterprises.
His extensive experience includes assisting clients with significant transactions, complex accounting and regulatory issues, prospectuses and other public filing documents. Peter worked in PwC's technology practice in San Jose, California from 1999 to 2003. He is experienced with public offerings and public company reporting requirements in both Canada and the United States. Peter is an expert in a number of complex accounting matters and has developed and presented external courses on topics such as revenue recognition and equity instruments.
Peter's client experience includes: Canadian Satellite Radio, Cisco Systems, Atmel, Bell Microproducts, Empathica, Hydrogenics, Nightingale Informatix, MarketWatch.com, Rambus, PlateSpin, NOVX Systems, and Orior Technologies.
Peter joined the firm in 1992, upon graduation from Wilfrid Laurier University with his Bachelor of Business Administration degree. In 1995 he obtained his CA designation, and became a CPA in 2000.
Rob Scott, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Rob is the leader of PwC's global Technology Network. He has over 20 years of experience advising clients in the fields of IT Planning, IT Sourcing, IT Project Management, and IT Operations Effectiveness. He is currently advising several clients on IT sourcing strategies, IT outsourcing, and IT governance issues.
Robert's experience spans various industries and client segments, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, distribution, telecom, media and government. He has worked in Canada and the U.S., and held a variety of roles with a global mandate. Rob approaches his work from a balanced business and technology perspective and is equally comfortable in either field.
Mark's career began in 1988 at Royal Bank. He joined RBC's Commercial Banking Group in 1993, and his roles have included marketing and strategy in the bank's head office, and senior account manager in the bank's high tech banking group. Mark then was recruited by Cisco Systems in 2000 to join Cisco Capital's structured finance team in Toronto where he financed the sales of Cisco equipment and services to sub-investment grade customers using a combination of debt and equity structures. Geographic responsibilities for financings included Canada and the US Eastern Seaboard. Mark returned to Royal Bank in 2001 to lead the bank's Information Technology Banking team in the Greater Toronto Area. In Mark's last role at RBC, he was the executive responsible for RBC's entire Knowledge Based Industries practice in the Ontario marketplace in addition to the Toronto Tech Banking Group. Mark has his MBA from Queen's University and is involved in a number of technology associations.
Allan Wilson, Allan Wilson & Associates
Allan Wilson coaches the owners and managers of advanced technology companies in developing and implementing their growth plans. He has worked with hundreds of advanced technology companies in over 25 years of consulting experience.
Allan Wilson and Associates has developed methodologies, white papers and consulting tools to support its strategic planning practice. Allan is also a senior mentor with the Innovation Synergy Centre in Markham. He was also the Director of the York Technology Association for 17 years and a founder of the Toronto Tech Alliance. Allan is a member of various committees, including The Toronto Board of Trade ICT Industry and the Information Technology Association of Canada.
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