Executive Committee
Stephen Fanjoy
Chair and Sponsorships
Stephen Fanjoy is a management consultant (www.stephenfanjoy.com) specializing in strategy development and implementation for high technology startups. He has been an advisor to a wide array of businesses, ranging from owner-operated to investor-backed and Fortune 50 corporations. In industry, Stephen has held senior management roles in sales, marketing, business development and product management at Procter & Gamble, Volkswagen Canada, SHL VISION*Solutions (now Autodesk), Oracle and Watchfire (now IBM). Stephen is a certified management consultant (CMC) and a member of CMC-Canada (www.cmc-canada.ca).
Wendy Schurman
Marketing and Website
Wendy Schurman is currently working with the City of Ottawa as a Project Manager in the Information Technology Services Branch. She is currently completing a Masters in Electronic Business at the University of Ottawa. Previously, she was with KPMG Consulting (now BearingPoint Inc.) in Toronto as a Senior Consultant focusing on project management, business analysis, and quality assurance of e-Business applications. Her consulting experience also includes organizational and business process improvement initiatives.
Bruce Raganold
High-tech Industry Liason
Bruce Raganold is the Director of Business Development at the Ottawa office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Involved in leading the development of new business for PwC, he has helped increase the profile of the firm in the Ottawa area. Prior to joining PwC, Bruce worked in business development, sales and sales leadership roles in the technology community including four years at Corel Corporation where he was responsible for US Corporate and Federal Government accounts. During his time at Corel, he received the North American Account Manager of the Year award. Bruce was a recent recipient of the Ottawa Business Journal's Top Forty under 40 award, given for business accomplishments and community involvement.
Marwan Forzley
Marwan Forzley is the founder, President and CEO of MODASolutions Corporation. He is the former director of business development at Nokia venture organization. He is the founder and first chair for the Ottawa wireless cluster.
Bill Izso
Government Industry Liason
Bill Izso, MBA, CMC, is a former Vice-President and management team member of EC-Gate Inc., a $24m USD venture capital backed e-commerce and payment Portal solution company operating as the ASP platform for the Bank of Montreal (BMO) CEBRA e-commerce division. Bill is a former Principal Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, a ten-year veteran of the federal government of Canada, and a Partner of Tier-Fore Inc. (). He is currently an IM-IT management consultant working as a business analyst and business transformation architect.
Kelly Daize
OCRI Liason
Kelly Daize is a Business Development Manager at the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI). Through a partnership with OCRI and the City of Ottawa, Edmund works with the Ottawa clusters to provide logistic support and to offer a mechanism for clusters to partner and leverage existing community resources that will ultimately accelerate the growth of companies and ensure Ottawa's economy remains sustainable, innovative and diversified.
Ian Graham
Speakers and Events
Ian Graham is currently a President of Klondike Marketing and Consulting (
www.klondikeconsulting.com) and founder of TheCodeFactory (
www.thecodefactory.ca) a business incubator and start-up co-working space. He has held senior roles in marketing, product management and project management at Bayly Communications, Alcatel and Newbridge Networks. As a consultant, Ian advises small business in product introduction, marketing and business improvement. Ian is a certified management consultant (CMC) and a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (
www.camc.com).
Dominique Ferrand
University Liason
