Board of Directors

Joe Sutherland

Prior to assuming his current position as President and CEO of Dyaptive Systems Inc. in Feb 2009, Mr. Sutherland successfully executed a turnaround and positive exit of Navtel Communications Inc, an Ontario-based, communications Software Company, to EXFO Electro-Optical of Quebec City.

Mr. Joseph Sutherland was appointed Vice-President and General Manager of Navtel Product Group in March 2008, following EXFO's acquisition of Navtel. Mr. Sutherland was President of Navtel Communications Inc. group within the Netest Corp. organization. from 2005 to 2008, and from 1976 to 1998. In this role, he was responsible for growing the company from inception to over $40 million in revenue with several hundred employees. During his tenure at Navtel, Mr. Sutherland raised significant venture capital, conducted several acquisitions and successfully divested Navtel to a large European public company. After divesture, he continued on as Divisional President of GN Nettest and was part of the executive management team, participating in numerous acquisition and strategy development activities until his retirement in 1998. Prior to resuming his functions as President of Navtel in 2005, Mr. Sutherland served on several boards. Namely, from 1998 until his successful exit in 2004, he was Chairman of the Board of Toogood Financial Systems; a financial software company based in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Mr. Sutherland completed an Executive Management Program in Marketing and Sales Management at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

Rolf Dekleer

Rolf Dekleer has eighteen years of operating experience with technology companies such as Cymbolic Sciences, MacDonald Dettwiler, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett-Packard and Schlumberger. He has extensive experience in product management and business development, including 10 years with venture capital backed firms. He also has two years of investment experience with Innovation Ontario Corp., an early stage venture capital firm in Toronto.

Rolf has an MA and an MBA from York University, and graduated from BCIT's Electronics Engineering program.

Current and past board positions include Angstrom Power, BC Photonics Industry Assoc., Canadian Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Assoc., Cellex Power, Clearwater Technologies, CoolEdge Lighting, D-Wave Systems, Dyaptive Systems, General Fusion, NxtGen Emission Controls, Radiant Communications, Spark Integration, Switch Materials, Versawave and Zeugma Systems.

Andrew Kyle

Andrew Kyle has been a Principle and Director of SpringBank TechVentures since its inception in 2000. For SpringBank Techventures, Andrew focuses on capital raising, deal origination and structuring, and providing strategic advisory services to investee companies.

In 1995, Andrew lead a group of investors who capitalized MetroNet Communications Inc. with $2 million of seed equity. Through 1998, Metronet began its operations as Canada's first and most successful competitive local exchange provider to the incumbent phone companies.

Keith E. Spencer

Keith Spencer is a partner with the Technology and Intellectual Property Group and chairs the Vancouver office's Securities and Technology Business Unit. Keith's clients range from start-up and emerging technology companies to large multi-national technology and telecom companies, and parties in outsourcing transactions. He is a member of various boards and advisory boards for a significant number of private early-stage technology companies.

Keith was in-house counsel to the Vancouver-based Wireless Data Group of Motorola, Inc. (formerly MDI Mobile Data International), where he had overall responsibility for its legal affairs. Keith has lectured in the area of technology, outsourcing, e-commerce and intellectual property law at The University of British Columbia Law School and at various Continuing Legal Education and Information Technology industry conferences. He has also authored articles in the areas of computer and information technology, outsourcing, e-commerce and intellectual property law.

Nazmin Alani

Nazmin Alani is a partner in the Diversified Venture Fund. He joined BDC in 2004. He has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has worked with incumbent and new service providers involved in wireline, cellular, personal communications systems (PCS), and satellite communications. His work experience includes assignments in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Asia, and Australia. His professional experience includes business development, product planning, product management, strategic planning, market strategy, business modeling, and strategic sales support. Prior to BDC, Mr. Alani spent 6 years with Gartner Consulting.

Mr. Alani holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Ontario. He also completed the Executive Telecommunications Program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Peter Seeligsohn

Peter Seeligsohn is the President of KAJS Group, an organisation pursuing the acquisition of or control positions in established businesses and the provision of strategy, operations and financing advice to private and public companies. Prior to this he was a General Partner at VenGrowth Capital Partners for 10 years. He began his career with Touche Ross (now Deloitte). Peter is a Chartered Accountant CA (SA) with Bachelor of Accounting Science (Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce degrees.