Michael Fergusson Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, BC, CA

Through The New Bright Idea, I offer strategic advisory services and serve as a fractional executive for innovation-driven organizations eager to scale and evolve. With a focus on the intersection of technology and human behavior, I guide companies through complex challenges, unlocking growth opportunities while advancing the organization's mission and.

Vancouver, CA

Proton Intelligence is building the first real-time, on-demand potassium monitoring wearable, allowing clinicians to treat and manage kidney disease patients more safely and precisely.

Vancouver, B.C., CA

Innovate BC (formerly the BC Innovation Council) is a Crown Agency of the Province of British Columbia, that encourages the development and application of advanced or innovative technologies to meet the needs of industry in BC. Innovate BC and its partners deliver programs and initiatives that promote company growth, resulting in jobs, increased revenue.

Ayogo's digital Shared Decision Making platform helps patient (and their families) collaborate effectively with clinicians (and their teams) around preference sensitive treatment decisions. Our product, LifePlan, has been successfully deployed for patients around the world.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Initially an advisor to the CEO of Movieset, I was brought in to build the marketing team, and refocus the company's marketing strategy around viral techniques and social media.

Advising all manner of businesses, and particularly early stage companies, on product and organizational development, financing, and governance. Some of my projects and clients include Movieset, who are revolutionizing how moviemakers connect with their audiences, and iSociety, a social networking platform for medical societies.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Leading an extraordinarily talented team, I helped to build and launch this social networking startup. We built a million-member network, and were finalists for a Canadian New Media Award for Excellence in Social Media Applications. Kinzin's focus was to provide "virtual private social networks" for families with children. Originally a division of.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Responsible for product development and innovation in the legacy business, as well as expansion into new markets. While at Uniserve, I helped the company incubate Kinzin, a social networking site for Families, and complete development of ESM, Uniserve's internal customer provisioning system, as well as launch new web hosting and VOIP offerings. In the.

Vancouver, BC, US

Responsible for Product and Intellectual Property development at Blast Radius. Represented the company on Advisory Committee of the W3C and OASIS. I was often called upon to provide my expertise in social networking and enterprise content to Blast Radius' clients, such as Microsoft and Electronic Arts, and to contribute to key new business proposals.

Designed a disruptive new collaboration tool, based on our patented Distributed Authoring technology, and my own Documentspaces concept, called XMetaL Reviewer. Worked with early customers EA, HP, and Cisco to refine the product. Helped sell that line of business to Just Systems in Japan in 2006.

I founded Enfolding Systems to develop and commercialize a unique (now patented) XML-based collaboration technology that I and my team created. The company was acquired by Blast Radius in August of 2002. The technology and development team were subsequently sold to Just Systems in 2006.

Prototyped many advanced applications of SoftQuad technology, and provided key strategic and technical leadership to the development of a number of product releases. Represented the company on a number of standards committees at the W3C, OASIS and OAG. Performed research and due diligence leading to the acquisition of ADEi (Petaluma, CA) by SoftQuad. I.

I led the design and development team for communicate.com's professional services practice, overseeing a team that grew from 10 to 40, and contributing to a growth from revenues measured in thousands to measured in millions over that period, with customers in health care, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, telecommunications, and of course, several very.

Product Design, product bundling, software development, standards development (W3C Working Groups) for our consumer web development tools.