2001-2007
Executive Advisor to Technology Companies
- Director and Advisor for emerging technology companies, guiding business planning, strategic marketing, product development, including international patent applications, and implementation of performance metrics
- Achievement of significant results for these companies, including: doubling of monthly recurring revenue, doubling of total revenue, doubling of users, and contracts with large US and global customers
- Reviewed and analyzed over three hundred early stage investment presentations
- Market research and detailed analysis for a major North American broadband service provider
- Two years as a Director of AceTech, the organization of BC technology industry CEOs, creating new strategic initiatives
- Part of a pioneering group from the US and Canada working to formalize and structure the growing angel investment sector based on best practices
1991-2001
President and Chief Technology Officer,
Robelle Solutions Technology, Inc.
- President, CTO and a major shareholder of Robelle Solutions Technology
- Increased annual revenues and profitably every year during tenure
- Built up and maintained global customer base of over 3,000 leading international corporations, including 15% of Fortune 500 companies
- Fostered long-term relationship with key technology partner Hewlett-Packard for over 20 years
- Doubled number of employees; average employee retention of eight years
- Took three major product lines to market, generating multi-million-dollar sales and service revenues
- Responsible for R&D, key architectural decisions and corporate software engineering practices
- Consistent annual release for 15 years of several new-version mission-critical software products, with multiple components and significantly increased functionality, to worldwide customer base
- Oversaw corporate name change and successful market re-positioning in response to market changes
- Developed and implemented substantially increased pricing structure for the first time in a decade
- Maintained global corporate presence in industry and oversaw international distributor network
1985-1991
President,
Robelle Labs Ltd.
- President and a major shareholder of Robelle Consulting Ltd.'s R&D subsidiary while concurrently handling marketing functions and technical consulting for parent company
- Grew R&D division annual revenue by 350%
- Increased shareholder value by 1500%
- Responsible for all employees and administration
- Senior architect and marketer of leading-edge software that became a performance standard in its market
- Managed over one million lines of source code
- Managed international software engineering team
- Senior project management, from design through release
- Developed and managed software for multiple platforms
1978-1985
Senior Technology Consultant
- Commercialized two university projects within one year of graduation
- Consulted to major BC companies including Bentall Group and MacMillan Bloedel (now Weyerhauser)
- Guest speaker and presenter at numerous international technical conferences in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, including:
- HP World
- HPCUA, (HP User Assn., U.K.)
- European HP Users Conferences
- Regional HP User Group Meetings
- Leader and keynote speaker at international distributor meetings
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Professional Advisory Roles and Associations
- Past Director, Acetech, the organization of BC technology industry CEOs focussed on specialized technology and management issues
- A professional advisor to the Commercial Systems Division (CSY) of Hewlett-Packard (responsible for the mission-critical 3000 business platform) for over a decade
- Member, Association of Computing Machinery since 1980, the world's first educational and scientific computing society providing authoritative publications, pioneering conferences, and leadership
- In 1989, founded the Greer Family Scholarship in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia; funding provided annually through to present
- Featured Alumni, UBC Department of Computer Science
- Leader of the Way, United Way Campaign
- Member, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club since 1979
- B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia
- Extensive and ongoing professional development for two decades in software engineering, marketing, management and leadership, including ACM Sigsoft, Oracle Open World, SAP Open World and DMA
- Extensive professional publications