40 years of leadership in public, private and university sectors. Advisor to companies and institutions in high tech, innovation, and economic development. Senior executive positions in government, academia and the diplomatic corps. Strategic leadership across a wide range of economic policy and program sectors at the Privy Council Office and Health Canada, as an Assistant Deputy Minister at Industry Canada, as the first Executive Director of the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing, as Canada’s Consul General in Los Angeles, as Chair of the Waterloo Innovation Summit, and as founding Chief Strategic Officer of Canada's advanced manufacturing supercluster, NGen.