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Board of Directors

Joe Sutherland

Joe SutherlandPresident & Chief Executive Officer

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 DekleerVice President, Investments, Cleantech

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.

Jim Glover

Jim GloverDirector
Investment Director, BDC Venture Capital

Jim Glover is an Investment Director at BDC Capital, responsible for telecommunications investments. In addition to his responsibilities on the Dyaptive Board, Jim is also a director at New Step Networks, Navtel Communications and sits on the advisory board for the University of Toronto Masters of Engineering in Telecommunications Program. Prior to joining BDC in 2001, Mr. Glover worked for Nortel Networks bringing new products to market, having held senior positions in product management, engineering, finance and marketing. Most recently at Nortel, he was responsible for disruptive strategies in Nortel's wireless business unit. Mr. Glover holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from McMaster University and is a Professional Engineer in Ontario.

Andrew Kyle

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 SpencerPartner

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.

Walter Stein

Walter Stein

Walter Stein held the position of President and CEO of Dyaptive Systems fom 2002 until early 2009. Prior to Dyaptive, Mr. Stein operated a consulting company helping European technology start-ups develop business plans, marketing strategies and sales channels in North America and Asia. He was a founder and C.E.O. of IDACOM Electronics, a manufacturer of telecom protocol testing equipment. Mr. Stein positioned that company as the leader in the emerging protocol conformance testing market and sold it in 1990 to Hewlett Packard. Mr. Stein has founded and led several successful high tech startups in Canada and Europe; his 25 years of CEO experience in the high tech industry is supplemented by senior leadership roles at Siemens AG and Hewlett Packard. Mr. Stein holds a degree in engineering physics.