About Me
John is an industry recognized Chief Technology Officer and thought leader with a history of running and improving both focused and extremely large R&D organizations. Having served as CTO at four large corporations in the telecom and IT sector over the past two decades (Nortel, Broadcom, Enterasys and Cabletron), John has developed a broad understanding of the total ICT ecosystem and its diverse global customer base. In addition to his roles as CTO, John has been a Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer in publicly traded companies. This expertise has allowed John to become one of the most well-rounded senior executives in the industry and an expert in both establishing the long-term strategy of a company and the near-term tactical execution to reach those goals.
John is a published author; holds 18 pending and granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services, and security; is a recognized public speaker; and has sat on numerous boards, including ATIS, OLPC, Blade Networks, Pingtel and the Globespan advisory board. In recent years, John has been honored by the Ottawa high-tech community by being named High Tech Executive of the year and one of the Forty Under 40 executives in Canada’s capital region. John also was one of the first senior executives in Canada to publish his thoughts on an external blog, where more than 10,000 unique users per month followed his thoughts and commentary.