Marc Boucher

Current

CEO and Founder at Hyperix Search, Inc.
Director at Canadian Space Commerce Association
Director at Moonviews LLC

CEO/Co-Founder at Mars Institute
CEO/Co-Founder at SpaceRef Interactive Inc.

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Past

CEO and Founder at aTerra Technologies Corp.
Founder at Maple Square

Education

CEGEP - John Abbott College
Concordia University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Marc Boucher’s Summary

Marc Boucher is an entrepreneur, technologist, explorer and bon vivant. He began work on his first Internet technology company in 1991 and is the founder of Hyperix Search, Inc., aTerra Technologies, co-founder of SpaceRef Interactive, the Mars Institute and MoonViews LLC.

Since 1991 he has been on the leading edge of Internet trends and has been described as an Internet visionary. Products he's launched include SportsWorld (1992), @Canadas.net (1995), Maple Square (1996), SpaceRef (1999) and OnOrbit (2008).

In 2002 he co-founded the Mars Institute a not for profit research institute focusing on science and exploration of Earth's outward neighbors the moon, Mars and its moons and the asteroid belt. The Mars Institute through the HMP Research Station in the Canadian high arctic brings together participants on a yearly basis to perform science and exploration research from notable organizations as the Canadian Space Agency, NASA, academia and industry.

In 2005 Boucher and his partner Keith Cowing at SpaceRef Interactive were approached by Dennis Wingo about a new venture and MoonViews LLC was created to provide imagery and data for lunar exploration. MoonViews first project is the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project working in conjunction with NASA.

In 2007 Boucher along with several other people co-founded the Canadian Space Commerce Association for which he serves on the board.

Also in 2007 Boucher founded Hyperix Search which has developed a vertical search platform and business intelligent unit building on existing technologies previously developed at Maple Square combined with new innovations.

Marc Boucher’s Specialties:

Technology ideas and development, vertical search

Marc Boucher’s Experience

CEO and Founder

Hyperix Search, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Hyperix Search, Inc., "Making Vertical Search Smarter", is a greater Vancouver based search engine technology company.

We have developed a vertical search platform used to create specialty, or vertical, search engines.

The Hyperix vertical search platform is the result of many years of hard work by many individuals. Currently our web crawlers are actively gathering data which we are using to test our platform.
Director

Canadian Space Commerce Association

(Aviation & Aerospace industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

The Canadian Space Commerce Association is a collaboration of Canadian entrepreneurs interested in the commercial opportunities available in the development of space and opening the space frontier. The CSCA exists to advance a favorable economic, legal and political environment for Canadian entrepreneurs in this field, and to promote positive public recognition of the socioeconomic benefits to all Canadians from investing in this development.
Director

Moonviews LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)
CEO/Co-Founder

Mars Institute

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

October 2002 — Present (6 years 10 months)

I was a principal co-founder of the Mars Institute in 2002 along with Pascal Lee. The stated purpose of the Mars Institute is to further the scientific study, exploration, and public understanding of Mars.
CEO/Co-Founder

SpaceRef Interactive Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)

I co-founded SpaceRef Interactive Inc. in 1999 to aggregate aerospace, space exploration, and space science information into a network of sites. Currently SpaceRef has 19 sites in it's network with a monthly audience of over 600,000 unique visitors.
CEO and Founder

aTerra Technologies Corp.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1993 — February 2009 (15 years 9 months)
Founder

Maple Square

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — February 2003 (8 years 2 months)

I launched Maple Square, Canada's Internet Directory in January 1996 and sold it in 2003. During that time I secured deals to have the Maple Square search engine power the Sympatico and AOL Canada searches.

Marc Boucher’s Education

CEGEP - John Abbott College
Concordia University

Did not complete a degree, became an entrepreneur instead and have never looked back.

Additional Information

Marc Boucher’s Websites:

Marc Boucher’s Interests:

vertical search, space exploration, mars

Marc Boucher’s Groups:

IEEE (Full Member), Association for Computing Machinery, Canadian Space Commerce Association, Canadian Space Society, Planetary Society, National Space Society