SKILLS- Build and lead tech-based startups and spinoffs- Lead the design, innovation, certification of products relating to the Internet of Things and Wearable Electronics- Create and implement strategy for knowledge-based business operating in complex, poorly defined, rapidly changing environments - Build and manage business units in universities and research organizations to implement growth strategies and link with industrial clients- Link knowledge-intensive businesses to clusters, universities and research centres both locally and internationally- Conduct international marketing and source international inputs for innovative, S&T-based products- Design R&D programs, secure and manage funding - Improve design and lifecycle operation of natural resource projects in arctic, frontier and developing country settings by creating and managing relationships with regulatory, environmental and business stakeholdersSECTORAL EXPERIENCE - Consulting Engineering - VP Canatec Associates (Calgary firm www.canatec.ca selling arctic consulting, instrumentation and software to offshore petroleum and maritime transport companies)- Instrumentation - Software Business – President Canatec SafeRescue (Newfoundland startup, making enterprise-integrated decision-support system for emergency management involving industrial accidents in remote and maritime regions)- University Management - Director of Business Units (at Babson College and School of Business Universidad Adolfo Ibanez - University Teaching and Research - engineering and business schools - entrepreneurship- International Development - International Development Research Centre and consulting in technology policy and management- Government - science, technology policy, entrepreneurship, innovation clusters INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCEUS (Boston and Washington DC); EU (Scandinavia, Holland, UK, France); most of Latin America; most of Africa; some N. Africa and Middle East; Kazakhstan; limited China and Korea