Chief Executive Officer at Cubic Telecom
Vancouver, Canada Area
Chief Executive Officer at Cubic Telecom
Vancouver, Canada Area
An energetic and professional team, project and company leader with extensive international management and operational experience. A successful startup manager with experience of six ventures to date. Key strengths include: developing and leading teams to execute business plans focused on revenue generation; introducing and marketing new ideas and products; business development and identifying and securing liquidity exits via merger or acquisition.
Start-up manager, branding and marketing, project manager, product manager.
(Telecommunications industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)
Digital Forest is the premier database and application hosting company serving small and medium-sized businesses and corporate workgroups around the globe. The company offers shared and dedicated server solutions for Web-enabled databases and applications on Mac, UNIX, and Windows systems.
Currently serve on the board and the compensation committee.
(Telecommunications industry)
July 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 2 months)
My responsibility is dealing with investors, managing the existing business, developing new business and sales.
We are an innovative global communications company focused on introducing simple, high quality and high value telecommunications services. Our core target market is aggrieved customers across the globe who don’t understand why they can’t get value for money when making international calls and roaming.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
July 2006 — February 2007 (8 months)
JAJAH is dedicated to bringing the world vastly improved telephony solutions at a fraction of the traditional price. Whenever possible, we want to provide basic phone for free - and we truly believe it’s possible. We believe that by bringing together the best of the internet with the best of the traditional telephone industry we will be able to provide our customers with unique new solutions, solutions never before possible, at a price they’ll find irresistible.
My job at JAJAH is to make all this work on mobile devices.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 9 months)
CEO of Luxembourg-based Excilan. Excilan provided a highly secure authentication and payment platform. The system utilized Interactive Voice Response (IVR) in the home language of the customer and enabled users to access and pay for services using their mobile phones. Receipt for payment was provided on the end-users monthly mobile phone bill utilizing the infrastructure of the GSM roaming agreement. Customers included O2, Orange, Boygues Telecom, Siminn and 7 other mobile operators in Europe and Asia with 23 million customers. Successfully achieved my target: Excilan was acquired by London-based The Cloud (Roampoint) in the early summer of 2005.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
October 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 6 months)
Founder and CEO of Canada's first public Wi-Fi network operator. FatPort Corporation operates the largest and most extensive public Wi-Fi network in Canada. At the time of my departure FatPort had 11 full-time employees and had grown annual revenue to about US $500,000. The Company was on target to break-even in September 2005. FatPort was the first "greenfield" public Wi-Fi operator (WISP) in Canada. Under my leadership the company gained a global reputation for unique marketing, product innovation and exceptional execution. FatPort is considered to be one of the top five startup WISPs in the world and many new WISPs coming to market around the world have emulated the FatPort business model.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
May 1996 — September 2001 (5 years 5 months)
Bitmovers was a wireless software engineering and development company that developed a rapid application development (RAD) environment for applications that use both the web and mobile devices (Product name: MAUI). Under my leadership the company achieved annual sales of US $750,000 for three consecutive years. With 17 employees and offices in Vancouver and San Francisco Bitmovers’ customers included: Commerce One, SAP, Palm and The Industry Standard. Successfully raised seed financing from Angels and the Canadian Research Council.
Concurrent with Bitmovers I also founded BOPJET, a web hosting and media streaming provider. I drove the company to US $400,000 in annual sales with 5 employees. Seattle-based Digital.Forest Inc. acquired BOPJET in September 2001. I remain a Board Member of Digital.Forest Inc.
1981 — 1984
Cycling, X-Country Skiing, Windsurfing
* Co-Founder of the Wireless Innovation Network of British Columbia (www.winbc.org)
* Extensive public speaking experience having participated in many telecommunications conferences as both speaker and moderator in North America, Europe, and Asia.