Washington DC Speakers
FT Global Investment Series: Focus on Canada
Create. Innovate. Grow.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - Ritz Carlton, Tysons Corner, Virginia
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Ambassador Gary Doer
Embassy of Canada
Washington D.C.
In October, 2009, Gary Doer assumed his responsibilities as Canada's 23rd representative to the United States of America.
Prior to taking up his current position in Washington, Ambassador Doer served as Premier of Manitoba for ten years. During that time, he worked extensively with U.S. Governors to enhance Canada-U.S. cooperation on trade, agriculture, water protection, climate change and renewable energy.
Ambassador Doer won three consecutive elections as Premier of Manitoba with successive increased majorities. In 2005, he was named by Business Week magazine as one of the top 20 international leaders on climate change. His government introduced balanced budgets during each of his ten years in office while reducing many taxes, including a plan to eliminate small business tax. As Premier, he led strategic investments in health care, education, and training and infrastructure.
Ambassador Doer hails from Winnipeg. He is married with two daughters.
Peter Donnelly
President
CSC Canada
Peter Donnelly is President of Canadian Operations. In this capacity, he has responsibility for the leadership of the Canadian organization which serves a broad range of commercial and federal clients. Mr. Donnelly is also responsible for pursuing new business in both the public and private sectors in Canada. Previously he was Vice-President of Canadian Business Development, Vice President for Natural Resources, Manufacturing, Technology & Consumer within CSC's Australia Group and Vice President and Global Account Executive on the BHP Billiton Account.
He spent 3 years overseas running CSC's Commercial Operations which included clients such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Bluescope Steel. During that time, Mr Donnelly also managed a portfolio of accounts within the Diversified Services team and led several global new business pursuits. He previously served as Account Executive and Senior Applications Portfolio Lead on the Nortel Account.
Prior to joining CSC in 2000, Mr Donnelly was Senior Research and Design Manager with Nortel Networks. He also served as General Manager for Eastern Ontario with Ticketmaster Canada.
Mr. Donnelly attended Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, majoring in Software Computer Sciences.
The Honourable Ed Fast
Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway
Government of Canada
The Honourable Ed Fast, Canada's Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, was first elected to the House of Commons in 2006, and was re-elected in 2008 and 2011.
Prior to his appointment to the Ministry, Mr. Fast served as a member of the standing committees on Canadian Heritage and on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Mr. Fast's Private Member's Bill C-277 to amend the Criminal Code to increase the maximum sentence for luring children over the Internet for sexual purposes from 5 to 10 years in prison, received Royal Assent in 2007 and became the law of Canada.
In 1985, Mr. Fast was elected to the Abbotsford School Board and served two terms. In 1996, he was elected to Abbotsford City Council where he served for nine years. During that time, he served variously as deputy mayor and chair of the Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission.
After graduating from law school at the University of British Columbia in 1982, he started his own
law firm, Linley Welwood.
Mr. Fast and his wife, Annette, have lived in Abbotsford for over 29 years and have four daughters.
Ian Gordon
Vice President of Business Development
Trend Micro Canada
Ian Gordon joined Trend Micro in early 2010 to kick start its growing Canadian operations. With over 20-years experience in product management, marketing, and sales of high technology products, Ian has spent 15 years specializing in security software for critical infrastructures and wireless networks. As a co-founder of Credant Technologies and having held senior product management roles at Entrust, Ian brings entrepreneurial drive and enterprise savvy to Trend Micro Canada, the new business unit established by Trend Micro, global leader in server and virtualization security.
Mr Gordon has a Bachelors of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Drew Morin
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
TeleCommunication Systems (TCS)
As TeleCommunication Systems' (TCS) Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Drew Morin is responsible for technical direction, coordination, and development activities across the company's business units. Mr. Morin has extensive experience in analysis, design, development, and implementation of integrated voice/data/video communication systems for a wide variety of applications in both the government and commercial sectors. Prior to joining TCS in 1988, Mr. Morin was a Communications Systems Engineer for BDM Corporation. There he designed, developed, and implemented next-generation systems, including a tactical wireless data communications network and one of the first secure local-area networks. Mr. Morin holds a bachelor of science degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and a master of science degree in systems engineering from George Mason University.
Michael Roach
President and Chief Executive Officer
CGI
Michael Roach continues to lead and execute CGI's Build and Buy profitable growth strategy, which has led to significant growth. As a result, CGI's global footprint has expanded to 125 offices in 16 countries with global delivery centers on three continents and 31,000 professionals worldwide.
Prior to joining CGI, Mr. Roach served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Sygma Inc., a Bell Canada subsidiary formed to provide services to Canada's full-service telecommunications companies. In 1998, he spearheaded the merger of Bell Sygma with CGI, effectively doubling the size of CGI. Mr. Roach's earlier career with Bell Canada spanned 25 years.
Mr. Roach sits on the board of directors of CGI, Yellow Media Inc., Innovapost and the Conference Board of Canada. He is a Trustee of The Conference Board, Inc. (U.S.), and a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science, as well as an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.
Mr. Roach maintains an active involvement in the Montreal community by lending his support to various charitable projects and events.
Duncan Stewart
Director of Deloitte Canada Research
Deloitte
Duncan Stewart is the Director of Deloitte Canada Research in the areas of Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Life Sciences and GreenTech. He is a member of Deloitte's national TMT executive team, is a co-author of Deloitte Research's annual Predictions report on trends in TMT, and is one of
He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a B.A. in Political Science from the
Don TapscottChairman
Moxie Insight
Don Tapscott, one of the worlds leading authorities on business strategy, is Chairman of Moxie Insight. He was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition by nGenera Insight.
Don is an internationally sought writer, consultant and speaker on business strategy and organizational transformation. He has given more than 400 keynote speeches and presentations over the past five years. His clients include top executives of many of the world's largest corporations and government leaders from many countries.
The Washington Technology Report called him one of the most influential media authorities since Marshall McLuhan.
Don is the author of thirteen widely read books about information technology in business and society, with his fourteenth book Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, co-authored by Anthony D. Williams, released in September 2010. Macrowikinomics is the follow up to Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (2006) co-authored by Anthony D. Williams. Wikinomics was an international bestseller, #1 on the 2007 management book charts, and on The New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller lists. Translated into 20 languages, Wikinomics was a finalist for the prestigious Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book Award and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by a number of publications, including The Economist.
Don's other well-known books include: Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technoloy (1992); The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (1995); Growing Up Digital (1998); Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (2000); The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business (2003) and Grown Up Digital (2008).
Don is a frequent writer for The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Business 2.0, The Financial Times, USA Today, and BusinessWeek, and has been interviewed and quoted widely in the broadcast media including CNN, NBC, CBS, NPR, and the BBC.
Don is Adjunct Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics, an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology, and three Doctor of Laws (Hon) granted from the University of Alberta in 2001, Trent University in 2006 and McMaster University in 2010. He is involved extensively in the transformation of education, working with many universities, school boards and Educational Secretaries and Ministers around the world. He is also working with government leaders around the world to reinvent government for the digital era and strengthen democratic institutions. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
Deeply committed to the issue of mental health, Mr. Tapscott is a former member of the Board of Trustees at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and was Chair of the Centered on Hope Campaign for the Center for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation. He is a founding member and a member of the committee of Advisers of the Business & Economic Roundtable on Addiction & Mental Health. He and his wife, Ana P. Lopes, are the benefactors of the Tapscott Chair in Schizophrenia Studies at the University of Toronto. He was Chair of the 1999-2001 Trent University Beyond Our Walls Capital Fundraising Campaign.
Paul TaylorBusiness Technology and Telecoms Editor
Financial Times
Paul Taylor is the Personal Technology Columnist and US Telecommunications Editor for the Financial Times. Mr Taylor's weekly Friday column focuses on new developments in software, hardware and IT services. His beat covers all aspects of personal technology and telecommunications.
Mr Taylor also writes and moderates the Gadget Guru Q&A blog, which appears on the FT-IT website, part of the FT.com subscription package and is a frequent contributor to the FT's Digital Business technology section.
He joined the FT in 1978 and has since served as Local Government Correspondent, Assistant News Editor, Americas Page Editor, New York Correspondent, Foreign News Editor, SE Asia Business Correspondent and Management Writer. He was the FT's UK-based IT Correspondent for most of the 1990s.
Mr Taylor left the FT briefly in 2000 to help found a web-based technology analysis start-up and moved back to New York, where he is now based.
Mr Taylor speaks regularly at conferences on personal technology and the Internet. He has also appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC TV and others.
Mr Taylor received a post-graduate degree from Cardiff University, Wales, and a Bachelor's degree with Honors from Oxford University.
