Board of directors
Kevin Huscroft, Chairman
Kevin Huscroft was a co-founder of PMC-Sierra, Inc. where he led product development from 1992 to 2002 and last held the position of Vice President, Research & Development and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to the founding of PMC-Sierra, Inc., Kevin held various engineering positions at MPR Teltech Ltd. and Bell-Northern Research Ltd. He has 25 years of experience in the development of semiconductor and communications systems.
Kevin holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
Geoff Catherwood, Director
Geoff is a Director in the Business Development Bank of Canada's Venture Capital Division. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has 14 years experience in industrial automation and process control. Prior to joining the BDC in 2001, he worked for a large multi-national industrial process control supplier. He brings diverse operational experience in the process automation industry including field service, system commissioning, engineering, management and sales. He currently administers BDC Venture Capital's "Advanced Technology" portfolio in Western Canada. This portfolio includes investments in companies that focus on Alternative Energy, Electronics, Advanced Materials and Clean Technologies. He is active on the boards of a number of early stage companies.
Geoff holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an Executive MBA from Simon Fraser University.
Peter Charbonneau, Director
Peter Charbonneau joined Skypoint in 2001 and is a principal of Fund II. Prior to Skypoint, Peter was a senior executive with Newbridge, where he played a key role during the company's period of extraordinary growth and success. He joined Newbridge in its early days as chief financial officer and over the next 13 years was promoted to the positions of Executive Vice-President, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Vice-Chairman. He was also a member of the company's board of directors from 1996 until 2000. As the CFO of Newbridge, he led the company's successful cross-border IPO in 1989 and its second cross-border offering three years later. As Vice-Chairman, he focused on enhancing the company's relations with key external stakeholders. He also worked closely with the chairman and management team to chart the company's strategic direction. While at Newbridge, Peter was instrumental in establishing the company’s Affiliates Program and was involved in the funding of more than 40 affiliate companies. He represented Newbridge as a board member for many of these affiliates.
Peter is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. In June 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute in recognition of his outstanding career achievements and leadership contributions to the community and his profession. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ottawa and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.
Dan Cordingley, Director
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Kevin Fielding, Director
Kevin joined Alta Berkeley in 2003 and has a 20-year track-record of building and managing companies in the semiconductor industry both in Europe and in the US. Prior to joining Alta Berkeley, Kevin held the position of President and CEO of ParthusCeva (NASDAQ: CEVA). He also led several successful high-technology start-up activities, including Parthus Technologies plc (NASDAQ: PRTH) which had a successful IPO on the LSE and NASDAQ in 2000, and the StrongARM microprocessor business, acquired by Intel (NASDAQ: INTL) in 1998.
Prior to returning to Europe in 1998, Kevin spent 10 years working on several high performance microprocessor businesses. He was the General Manager of the StrongARM business in Palo Alto, CA prior to its acquisition by Intel in 1998, and also worked on the original Alpha microprocessor for Digital Equipment Corporation. Before moving to the United States, Kevin worked on high-speed processor design for Philips BV in Eindhoven and in Dublin. He also spent four years working in the research labs at the NMRC (National Microelectronics Research Centre) attached to University College, Cork, Ireland.
Kevin earned a Master's degree in Business Administration in 1992 from Northeastern University, Boston. In addition he received both Master's and BSEE degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ireland at Cork.
Jim Noble, Director
Jim Noble currently has the role of SVP of IT for Talisman Energy, based in Calgary. During 2008/9 Jim had responsibility for IT Strategy and Operational Excellence in BP’s global Information Technology & Services organization. Throughout 2007, Jim had responsibility for strategy and transformation for business operations & information technology for all of the Merrill Lynch businesses worldwide. Jim also had line management responsibility for technology in Investment Banking. Until end 2006, Jim was VP & CIO of Altria Group Inc., with overall responsibility for information technology in that Fortune 15 company. Jim was President of Tecworks LLC, the shared services organization run as a separate legal entity.
Prior to joining Altria in 2002, Jim was SVP and CIO at AOL Time Warner. Prior to that Jim had been with General Motors Corp, where he was based in Detroit as Chief Technology Strategy Officer, moving to that assignment from the role of CIO of General Motors International, where he was responsible for all IT activities outside of North America. Earlier in his career, Jim led the worldwide IT consulting practice at Cap Gemini, and prior to that he worked for GEC on the design of aircraft systems.
Jim is past President of the Society for Information Management, which is the leading professional association for IT executives. In 2007, Jim was voted as #7 in the annual table of the most influential IT executives in the USA.
Daniel Rubin, Director
Daniel I. Rubin joined Alloy Ventures in 1999. From 1991 he was a co-founder of Artisan Components, the initial VP of Sales and Marketing and subsequently, the VP of Business Development through their initial public offering in 1998. Prior to Artisan Components Mr. Rubin worked at Ultratech Stepper in many roles including Director of Product Marketing and Managing Director of Asian Operations. Dan is a director of CiraNova, Ensenda, Molecular Imprints, Nexsil and Gradient, and a board observer at Ellie Mae and Integrated Materials, Inc.
Dan received a BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982).
Kevin Salvadori, Director
Kevin Salvadori leads TELUS' Business Transformation & Technology Operations team, which delivers strategic and transformational projects, and communications solutions including voice, data and Internet Protocol services for TELUS customers. Kevin is responsible for TELUS' field operations, the construction and maintenance of TELUS' national wireline and wireless networks and the provisioning of national customer service solutions. He is also responsible for Information Technology systems architecture, application development and maintenance, technology operations, and physical and technology security.
Kevin joined TELUS Mobility upon its acquisition of Clearnet in 2000 and transitioned to TELUS in September 2003. At TELUS Mobility Kevin led the successful process and systems integration of TELUS Mobility and Clearnet. His team's achievements received successive, prestigious Canadian Information Productivity Award (CIPA) honours.
Kevin received a Bachelor of Applied Science (Systems Design Engineering) from the University of Waterloo in 1993. He serves on the board of the B.C. Technology Industries Association.
Joe Timlin, Director
Joe Timlin is a Vice President of Investments at GrowthWorks Capital Ltd focused on software and infrastructure investments. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist in 1998 he was the VP Sales for a United States based hardware and instrumentation firm. Joe also serves on the Boards of Layer 7 Technologies, Sutus, ResponseTek Networks, and Bycast Inc.
Joe has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Queen's University and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
