We help athletes (and those working in extreme conditions) stay hydrated using our Sweat Tests and multi-strength electrolyte supplements.We work with a long list of elite organisations in the NFL, NBA, Major league Baseball, Premier League, Team Sunweb in the cycling ProTour and the Williams F1 team as well as many, many elite endurance athletes.

Digital Forest is the premier database and application hosting company serving small and medium-sized businesses and corporate workgroups around the globe. The company offers shared and dedicated server solutions for Web-enabled databases and applications on Mac, UNIX, and Windows systems.Currently serve on the board and the compensation committee.

Kanto operates under the two trading names KantoAV and Kanto Speakers. We manufacture TV wall mounts, HDMI cables and accessories and award winning iPod speaker systems.We distribute our products through resellers in North America, Australia and Europe and sell through our own websites and Costco Canada and Costco US. You might think this is an "old" business and wonder what our competitive advantage is. We are innovative in our business systems, our product design and development, our distribution methods and our extreme focus on customer satisfaction.

My responsibility is dealing with investors, managing the existing business, developing new business and sales.We are an innovative global communications company focused on introducing simple, high quality and high value telecommunications services. Our core target market is aggrieved customers across the globe who don’t understand why they can’t get value for money when making international calls and roaming.

Jajah is dedicated to bringing the world vastly improved telephony solutions at a fraction of the traditional price. Whenever possible, we want to provide basic phone for free - and we truly believe it’s possible. We believe that by bringing together the best of the internet with the best of the traditional telephone industry we will be able to provide our customers with unique new solutions, solutions never before possible, at a price they’ll find irresistible.My job at Jajah was to make all this work on mobile devices.Jajah was acquired by Telefonica in January 2010 for $200+ M.

CEO of Luxembourg-based Excilan. Excilan provided a highly secure authentication and payment platform. The system utilized Interactive Voice Response (IVR) in the home language of the customer and enabled users to access and pay for services using their mobile phones. Receipt for payment was provided on the end-users monthly mobile phone bill utilizing the infrastructure of the GSM roaming agreement. Customers included O2, Orange, Boygues Telecom, Siminn and 7 other mobile operators in Europe and Asia with 23 million customers. Successfully achieved my target: Excilan was acquired by London-based The Cloud (Roampoint) in the early summer of 2005.

Founder and CEO of Canada's first public Wi-Fi network operator. FatPort Corporation operates the largest and most extensive public Wi-Fi network in Canada. At the time of my departure FatPort had 11 full-time employees and revenue was growing 300% year-on-year. The Company was on target to break-even in September 2005. FatPort was the first "greenfield" public Wi-Fi operator (WISP) in Canada. Under my leadership the company gained a global reputation for unique marketing, product innovation and exceptional execution. FatPort is considered to be one of the top five startup WISPs in the world and many new WISPs coming to market around the world have emulated the FatPort business model.

Bitmovers was a wireless software engineering and development company that developed a rapid application development (RAD) environment for applications that use both the web and mobile devices (Product name: MAUI). With 17 employees and offices in Vancouver and San Francisco Bitmovers’ customers included: Commerce One, SAP, Palm and The Industry Standard. Successfully raised seed financing from Angels and the Canadian Research Council.Concurrent with Bitmovers I also founded BOPJET, a web hosting and media streaming provider. Seattle-based Digital.Forest Inc. acquired BOPJET in September 2001. I remain a Board Member of Digital.Forest Inc.