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Michael Bidu, Executive Director

Michael has more than 15 years of experience in executive management, business development, branding, direct marketing, CRM and strategic communications across traditional, web and wireless platforms on the agency and client side.

He is a serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded ventures in fashion, Internet adventure travel, interactive marketing, software and Web 2.0/wireless in tourism. He is also a recipient of the 2002 Award for Advertising Excellence from the BC American Advertising Association.

His latest entrepreneurial venture includes CityDazz Interactive Inc. (Founder & CEO), a web/wireless focused on helping consumers find "dazzling customer experiences" via innovative location-based services, local/city advertising and deep user generated content on their mobile phones (kinda Travel 2.0).

WINBC BOARD OF DIRECTORS - EXECUTIVE TEAM
Robert Forget, Chair - Director of Wireless Product Management, Vecima Networks

Robert Forget started in the business development group at Vecima Networks Inc. in 2004 and is currently the Director of Wireless Sales for the organization. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Physics degree in 2002 from the University of Saskatchewan, and an MBA from Lansbridge University in 2006. Robert ran his own consultancy firm from 2000-2004 specializing in electronics design and systems implementation. Mr. Forget has been active on the boards of many organizations from such diverse areas as housing developments, politics, and the church.
Bruce Tattrie, Secretary - Partner, Fasken Martineau

Bruce is a recognized practitioner in the telecommunications industry, particularly in respect of transactions involving telecommunications infrastructure and capacity. Bruce has represented 360networks since its inception. Bruce's practice also includes representing corporations in significant technology acquisitions and representing technology companies in licensing transactions and other technology dispositions. Bruce has a wide range of experience representing both emerging and senior companies in the technology industry.
Don Furney, Treasurer - Corporate Tax Services Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Don works with a broad range of companies from very early stage to multi-national public, specializing in Canadian and international tax services including intellectual property planning, scientific research & experimental development claims, equity compensation, cross border finance and venture capital, international (including US) business modeling and structuring, and shareholder planning.

Don has also been involved in various public policy tax initiatives to help grow the technology industry in British Columbia, including expansion of the international financialcentre legislation and various BC venture capital and marketing initiatives. Heworks with the Vancouver Angel Forum, presents at US and Canadian venture capital seminars, and is a director of both Monte Jade Science and Technologyand Wavefront Wireless Innovation Society. He has a Bachelor of Science and an Honours Bachelor of Administrative Studies from the University of Manitoba, and is a Chartered Accountant.

WINBC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bruce Bernard - Product Development Manager, Carmanah

Bruce Bernard has developed wireless consumer products for 20 years. He was CTO of Ascalade Communications Inc. as well as VP of Business Development and Engineering for VTECH. At Carmanah, Mr. Bernard is leading a team developing solar lighting solutions for a number of commercial and industrial platforms. Many of these applications incorporate wireless solutions.

Carmanah has been putting solar to work since 1996. The first company of its kind in the world, Carmanah pioneered the self-contained solar light and continues to develop best-in-class solar LED lighting and solar power systems for industrial applications worldwide.
Doug H. Blakeway - President, CEO & Director, Wireless2 Technologies Inc.

Wireless2 Technologies Inc., a publicly traded international wireless RFID company which Doug founded in 1985. As an entrepreneur and investor, over the past 40 years, Mr. Blakeway has founded and operated a number of successful endeavors from service oriented companies to high technology electronic manufacturing. Doug has extensive connections in the security and policing sectors and has security clearances from the Canadian and U.S. Government law enforcement agencies.

Since 1982, Mr. Blakeway has been a director of a number of public companies on the TSX Venture Exchange. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Listed Company Association, CanTest Ltd, Legend Power Systems Inc., Tactical Technologies Inc., On Guard Plus Limited. and Texas Gas & Oil Inc.
Steve Hnatiuk - Partner, Yaletown Venture Partners

Steve has over twelve years experience in the development and financing of emerging technology companies. He has provided financing to over fifty technology companies in BC. He championed the creation of TD Bank's Technology Industry Group in the BC market in the early 1990's, building and leading a profitable $87 million portfolio of emerging growth companies over seven years. Mr. Hnatiuk joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999 as director of the Technology Information & Communications Group in BC, holding responsibility for the newly-merged firm's strategy and practice growth in the region.

Mr. Hnatiuk is also a co-founder of the Vancouver Angel Network, a director of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, an advisory board member of Business in Vancouver Newspaper and BC Advanced Systems Institute, and has been a co-founder, chair, director, or advisory board member of several technology companies, technology industry associations, and not-for-profit organizations in BC.
Kathleen Landry - Director, Corporate Marketing & Public Relations, Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless is a leader in developing wireless data modems and software that connect people all over the world with mobile broadband networks that keep them in touch, informed, and productive from wherever they need to be. While at Sierra Wireless Kathleen’s work has included market research, strategic corporate communications and media relations work, management of product launch marketing programs, brand development for product portfolios and partner marketing management for customers including AT&T, Cisco, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, Sprint, Lenovo and O2. Prior to Sierra Wireless, Kathleen worked with a variety of local companies as an independent consultant assisting them with long term planning to support business plan and strategic market launch development. She is an active member and mentor of Wired Women and a volunteer for Dress for Success Vancouver.
Chris Langdon - VP, Network Services, Telus

Chris Langdon, who has over 14 years of experience in the telecommunications industry is the VP pf Network Services, TELUS. He was also instrumental in the launch of TELUS Mobility's wireless high-speed (EVDO) national 1X and 802.11 data services. Mr. Langdon is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.
Rob McGarry - Director of Product R&D - Media and Games, Nokia

Rob McGarry has 22 years of Engineering and telecommunications experience. His expertise is adapting & responding to change, wireless technologies and software product development, leading & coaching, managing projects in a complex multi-project/multi-site environment.

In 1997 he started as the Director of Engineering for VOIP start-up Vienna Systems (Vancouver) a company which pioneered the commercialization of consumer VOIP services. The innovative products created by Vienna led to it being acquired by Nokia in late 1998. Within Nokia Rob was the Product Program Manager who managed the successful implementation from concept to volume delivery of the Nokia N91 and Nokia N91 8GB devices to over 72 countries generating over 300 million Euros in revenue. Following that Rob was the Director of Technology Management and Product Concepting at Nokia where he focused on ensuring the competitiveness and feasibility in product concepts and bringing them to the implementation phase. Just recently Rob was the Director of Games RD which has now, as Media and Games R&D, transitioned from a Games only focus to a larger focus concentrating on Media (OVI store), Content, Applications, Video and Games.

Rob is a Board member of Nokia IP Telephony Corporation. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from the McGill University.
Jules Meunier - Former CTO, Nortel

Jules Meunier has 25 years of networking and telecommunications experience across all sectors of the service provider market. His expertise includes optical systems, circuit switching, data networking, mobile wireless and network management. In 2002 he was the Chief Executive Officer of ProQuent systems a provider of wireless data services. Mr. Meunier has over 21 years of experience at Nortel and Bell-Northern Research: In 2001 he served as President of Wireless Networks a $5B business unit, managing 8,000 staff and a $1B R&D budget.

In 2000 Mr. Meunier was the Nortel Networks global Chief Technology Officer. From 1998 to 1999 he served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the $1B revenue Carrier Data Networking business, based in Boston. From 1995-1998 he was a Vice President of the Wireless business based in Paris, where he ran global sales and marketing and earlier Vice President of Wireless Engineering.

Meunier is a Board member of Zarlink a TSX listed semiconductor company. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from the University of Calgary.
Jim Mutter - Former President, Premier's Technology Council

Jim is past President of the Premier’s Technology Council of British Columbia and remains an active member. He was most recently a Senior Client Partner in the Vancouver office of Korn/Ferry International. He has been the CEO of hyperWALLET, a high growth technology company focused on a software platform for the financial services sector where he oversaw the growth of the business from a small technology provider to securing a number of key national clients.

He is a co-founder and former vice-president, business development of Apparent Networks, a Vancouver-based network intelligence software company. As a key member of Apparent's senior management team, he helped lead the company from inception through product commercialization to completion of one of the largest initial rounds of venture financing for a Canadian technology company in 2002. He was previously a partner at Fasken Martineau, where he helped establish one of the largest technology practice groups in Vancouver.

Jim has experience with both private and public companies and is active on a number of boards as well as being an active member of a number of community and social organizations. He has a bachelor of business administration from the University of Prince Edward Island and a bachelor of law degree from the University of Calgary.
Colin Quon - Founder, ANTS Distributed Media

Colin is a serial technology entrepreneur and is currently the Founder & CEO of ANTS Distributed Media. Prior to ANTS, Colin founded EQO Communications, a mobile social phonebook application with almost 3 million users. At EQO, Colin was CTO and general manager of China operations.

Before EQO, Colin led product management and development at TELOS Technology (now a division of UTStarcom), and developed the first mobile softswitch. Colin also spent more than 10 years in senior R&D, product management, and business development roles in telecom systems and wireless chipsets at Nortel, Holley Communications, and Glenayre. Colin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering from Simon Fraser University and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
Parminder Singh - Former Director, Microsoft Canada Development Centre

Parminder (Par) Singh has more than 25 years of professional experience in building, operating, and managing international businesses for private companies, government clients, and multi-national corporations around the world.

Parminder was most recently the Managing Director of the Microsoft Canada Development Centre (MCDC), located in Richmond, British Columbia. In his role since September, 2007, Par was responsible for the overall management of the MCDC, as well as establishing the strategic direction for the Centre. The Centre is expected to be one of the premier development locations as part of Microsoft’s Global Distributed Development Strategy. Parminder spent five years with Microsoft serving as the Director of Business Development for Xbox where he provided strategic direction, developed go-to-market strategies, and led negotiations with major manufacturing and content partners. He also served as the General Manager for Xbox in Japan.

Just prior to joining Microsoft, Parminder was the founder and CEO of Evenio Media, where he directed the software design and development of an award winning multimedia publishing platform. Prior to that, Parminder was the Vice President of World Wide Market Development at Ensequence, where he was responsible for sales, marketing, and business development of Ensequence's Interactive Television publishing platform.
Derek Spratt - President & CEO, Mobidia

Derek is currently the President & CEO of Mobidia Inc., a wireless network optimization vendor.  Derek has been an active CEO, founder, investor, advisor and board member with local BC technology firms for the past 25 years. He has also been a contributor to the technology community via his board level involvement in Acetech - the Academy of technology CEOs, and the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. Derek has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Queens and started out in his career in 1982, first as a product designer, and later in executive management and leadership positions, most recently as Founder and CEO of Intrinsyc Software International Inc (1996-2006). Other local firms Derek has worked for include: Consequent Technologies (co-founder, CEO), PCS Wireless (co-founder, past-President/EVP), Ernex (Advisor), Nexus Engineering (VP and business unit manager), Motorola (Product Manager), Integra Systems (Designer/Manager), Canysco Systems (Designer) and DBA Telecom (Designer).

Additionally, Derek has worked to promote science curriculum to local K-12 students via philanthropic engagements with Science World BC and the Vancouver School Foundation, and also takes a keen interest in protecting the environment via his philanthropic and board level engagement with Eco-Justice Canada. You can read more about Derek and his business and personal interests on his own web site at www.derekspratt.com.
John Tedesco - Co-Founder, President & CEO, Contigo

John is a seasoned entrepreneur with particular interest in the application of technology to revolutionize the delivery of consumer and commercial services. He has founded three such companies since the mid-1990’s, currently serving as the President & CEO of Contigo Systems Inc.

Founded in 2002, Contigo helps businesses and consumers monitor their vehicles, assets, personnel and loved ones using advanced GPS and wireless technology. Contigo's solutions are distributed across the U.S. and Canada through Contigo's network of value-added resellers and strategic partners, which include TELUS and LoJack.

Previously, John served as CEO of PayMyBills.com, a consumer eFinance company he co-founded in early 1999. John led the company from concept stage to revenue generation and market leadership in the electronic bill presentment and payment sector. He raised $35 million in venture capital and managed over 200 employees while growing the subscriber base to nearly 40,000 before selling the company 18 months later for $70 million. The service is now owned and operated by Intuit.

Earlier in his career, John worked at GE Capital where he started an Internet-based multiple listing service as part of GE’s commercial real estate division. John received his B.S., Magna Cum Laude, in Finance and Accounting from Fairfield University and his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Information Strategy & Economics.
Olivier Vincent - CEO, Canpages

Mr. Vincent has spent more than 20 years as a senior executive in the technology and local search directory industry in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Canpages in 2006. Olivier was the founder of Canpages in December 2005 with HM Capital Partners of Dallas, Texas. He was the architect behind Canpages' current market expansion strategy and in transforming the company into a strategic, multi-platform organization that specializes in local search and directories for print, online and mobile.

From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Vincent held several Senior Executive positions at Verizon Information Services including Vice President, International. He was responsible for launching several wireless and internet services within the U.S. and managed businesses in all continents. From 1999 to 2001, he was President of Vancouver-based Dominion Information Services/SuperPages that formerly published the TELUS Pages, SuperPages and superpages.ca.

Mr. Vincent has a degree in engineering from École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris, and a masters of business degree from Haute Études Commerciales, France. Mr. Vincent is also a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).

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