Duncan Hill

Duncan was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Think Dynamics, a developer of data center provisioning and automation software, which was acquired by IBM in May 2003. Think Dynamics has become an integral part of IBM's Tivoli Group where Duncan served as an executive until June 2005 guiding market and technology strategy for Tivoli's on demand automation software portfolio.

Prior to founding Think Dynamics, Duncan established a data center consulting practice that delivered enterprise systems architecture and management services to customers that included Virgin, Norwich Union, one2one, Millipore, ADP and Teleglobe in the UK, USA and Canada.

Currently a strategy consultant to technology entrepreneurs, Duncan sits on several advisory boards as well as the Board of Directors of RapidMind, a company that enables software to exploit the power of multi-core and stream processors. Duncan also chairs the infrastructure virtualization track for the CMP Interop conference.

Ron Nordin

Ron Nordin brings over 20 years of executive-level experience in the software industry and serves as an advisor and board member to early-stage technology companies. Most recently, Ron was a senior partner at Atlas Venture in Boston, where he invested in a number of software and internet companies, including eRoom Technologies, which was acquired by Documentum in 2000 in one of the largest private software transactions of the year.

Prior to Atlas, Ron was president and CEO of SQA Inc., a venture backed, enterprise software company. He led SQA from a start up to a dominant player in the software quality assurance sector. Under his leadership, SQA had a successful IPO and became a highly valued public company. SQA was acquired by Rational Software, which in turn was acquired by IBM. Ron established his career early at Cognos, where as senior vice president, he served on the executive team that developed the company from a start up through its IPO, helping it become one of the major players in the software industry.

Dr. James Serack

With more than 24 years of leadership, engineering and business experience, Dr. Serack is the director of Americas Architecture and Innovation for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a global information technology and services company. At CSC, he served also as Ascension Health Account CTO and a solution executive in Business Development. Prior to CSC, Dr. Serack was vice president of Information Services (CIO) for the R&D divisions of Nortel Networks.

Dr. Serack is currently the chair of the Advisory Board of Western Engineering (ACWE) at the University of Western Ontario, and on the Executive Steering Committee of the American Nursing Time and Motion Research Project. He is a professional engineer and holds a Bachelor in Engineering Physics (1983) from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (1988) from Edinburgh University, Scotland. Dr. Serack presents numerous papers in microelectronics and is an active contributor to technology Wikis. He also holds a patent in the telecommunications field.

John Armitage

John is Managing Director of Armitage Associates - one of Canada's most respected boutique executive search firms. He has been a management consultant/senior search professional for over 35 years - both at KPMG and with his own firm. The firm specializes in building/rebuilding senior management teams for technology ventures as well as for angel/venture capital/private equity/ institutional investor groups and has helped launch/accelerate a number of highly successful tech firms within and outside of Canada.

John is on the Advisory Board of ACE - the Association for Advancement of Canadian Entrepreneurship as well as a Director of Talent Technology Corporation.

Steve Zucker

Mr. Zucker, is currently Head of Technology at INTRIA, Technology Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of CIBC. Prior to that, Steve was CIO, International Financial Data Services (a joint venture between StateStreet Bank and DST Systems) where he managed a Global Technology Services team, which provided software and services solutions to the Mutual Fund and Insurance industry in Canada and Europe.  He was also Senior Vice-President, Canadian Integration Services at BCE Emergis where he focused on electronic bill presentment for the major Canadian banks (e-route).

Mr. Zucker was Vice President, Toronto Region at APG Solutions & Technologies, a national systems integrator that was sold to CGI in 2000. In his 28-year IT career, Mr. Zucker has led teams in application development, technology consulting, ERP implementations, Internet, reengineering, operations, sales, marketing and organizational development driving top- and bottom-line growth and world-class customer satisfaction.

Mr. Zucker holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from McMaster and a Master’s Degree in Education from Brock University. Mr. Zucker has always been active in support of community charities and business organizations. He has served on the Comdex Advisory Board and sat on the technical advisory boards of a number of technology and startup companies.

Dr. Tony White

Dr. White has over 26 years of diverse software engineering experience in large corporations and start-up environments. He previously served as CTO of Embotics before moving to a full-time research role at Carleton University. Prior to Embotics, Tony served as CTO of Symbium, setting the technology vision and serving as principal architect. At Texar, as Chief Scientist, he built and managed an R&D group of 35 engineers. While at Nortel Networks he was the principal architect for the Expert Advisor, a multi-agent diagnostic system for X.25 networks. He has published over 60 papers on subjects that include Network and System Management, Multi-agent systems, Swarm Intelligence, and Autonomic Computing.

Dr. White holds an Associate Professorship of Computer Science at Carleton University, Ottawa where he lectures on Distributed Computing and Swarm Intelligence. He has master's degrees in Physics from Cambridge University, England and Computer Science along with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa. He has been awarded 6 patents with several others pending. Dr. White's current research areas include Autonomic Computing and Swarm Intelligence.