Eric Goodwin - Non-Executive Director & Chairman
Eric Goodwin is a serial entrepreneur and over the past 40 years has always worked
in a start-up environment. He currently sits on several Boards and acts as an adviser
to VCs and management teams on building software businesses.
Most recently Goodwin came out of retirement in January 2007 to join FortivaInc
as CEO. Fortiva was an innovative, in the Cloud, email compliance and archiving
system. Goodwin successfully changed the primary go-to-market strategy to the channel,
and invested in developing productive partnerships with Microsoft and MessageLabs.
In June of 2008, Fortiva had a successful sale to Proofpoint, a leader in email
security. In July of 2004 he retired as the CEO of Klocwork after taking the company
to the next level through a 'B round' of venture funding and initiating two years
of rapid growth. Klocwork was the last spinout from Nortel, and provides a software
development platform for improving productivity and quality of software by using
deep static analysis. Prior to joining Klocwork, Goodwin served as CEO of FloNetwork
Inc. from July 1999 to July 2001 when it was sold to DoubleClick (NASDAQ: DCLK).
During that period FloNetwork grew from a 25 person company to over 200, and was
the acknowledged leader in email relationship management. FloNetwork was recognized
in the Deloitte &Touche Fast50 as the 20th fastest growing high technology company
in Canada, and the top half of the Fast500 for technology companies in North America.
Previously he had been a co-founder and CEO of Fulcrum Technologies. Goodwin led
one of the early IPO's for a Canadian company on NASDAQ (FULCF) in 1993. The company
was in the top ten of Canadian software companies and was ultimately sold to PC
DOCS, now part of Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX). Over a 12-year period, Goodwin guided
Fulcrum through its early customer wins, strategic partnerships and investments,
increasing mainstream adoption, an initial and secondary offering and, finally,
strategic acquisition. Under his leadership, Fulcrum and its customers won several
prestigious awards for growth and excellence, including a ComputerWorld Smithsonian
Award, CrossRoads A-List, Software Magazine's Top 100 and many others. Eric has
45 years of operational and management experience. He has served on the boards of
private and public companies, has held management operating roles and turnaround
assignments, and has worked with companies through the IPO and strategic sale process.
Goodwin has participated or led a dozen exits.
Goodwin has a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University. He has received a number
of personal and corporate awards including the Canadian Advanced Technology Association's
award for Private Sector Leadership, and was named as one of Canada's top 10 technology
CEOs by Canadian Business Magazine. He is married and has three children, all successful
entrepreneurs.
NEIL SELFE - Non-Executive Director
Neil Selfe is a Managing Director, Investment Banking at GMP Securities and heads
up the technology, communications, structured products and financial institutions
coverage groups.
Before joining GMP, Neil was the co-founder and Managing Partner of Diversified
Global Asset Management (DGAM), an alternative asset management firm with in excess
of $2 billion of assets under management.
Prior to this, Neil was with RBC Capital Markets for nine years as a Managing Director
and co-head of global Communication, Media and Technology Investment Banking and
a member of the Management Committee of RBC Capital Partners. Before joining RBC
Capital Markets, Neil was a senior corporate and securities practitioner with the
law firm Osler, Hoskin& Harcourt and prior to that held positions with the Ontario
Securities Commission and Deloitte &Touche. Neil is a member of the Law Society
of Upper Canada and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and the University
of Toronto. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health Foundation.
Peter Carroll - Non-Executive Director
Peter has spent the past 20 years helping businesses successfully establish technological
offerings. In 1994, at the starting point of the internet's immersion in the consumer marketplace,
he co-founded EntreVision and oversaw the company's growth from a partnership of
four IT consultants to a web development firm of 150 employees. In 2000, Quebecor
Inc. bought EntreVision to form the cornerstone of its interactive internet application
development initiatives. The new company Nurun became the largest web integrator
in Canada.
Prior to EntreVision, Peter combined technological and financial expertise in his
role as a Business Systems Analyst for Burns Fry (now Nesbitt Burns). He then spent
a year in Malaysia, building a futures & options exchange as a Program Manager
for Andersen Consulting.
Peter graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
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