TON Tuesday - Focus on Innovation
January 26, 2010 5:30-7:30 pm
hosted by bitHeads Inc.
1309 Carling Avenue
(entrance at east end of Westgate Shopping Centre)

 

 

Innovation is the engine driving Ottawa’s economy. Come hear and interact with our distinguished panel on various aspects of innovation. What is the role of innovation in the business context and economy? What management structures and behaviours are needed to establish and sustain it, and what characteristics constitute the individual innovator. Finally, thoughts on Ottawa’s prognosis for continuing to be a centre of innovation.

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Claude Haw, President and CEO OCRI

Claude leads OCRI, Ottawa’s lead economic development agency. Prior to OCRI, Claude was Managing Partner and founder of Venture Coaches, a venture capital firm which invested in thirteen technology companies.

 

Claude has been actively involved with more than 30 tech companies over two decades from start-up to acquisition and IPO. With more than 30 years of experience in a variety of technical, management and venture investing roles in the technology sector Claude has been instrumental in the success of many Ottawa-based companies including Venture Coaches, DragonWave, Newbridge Networks and Mitel Corporation.

 

He is a director of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, a charter member of TiE Ottawa, and a past board member of the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA). Claude is also a founder of The Ottawa Network and of Mindtrust, and served as a long-standing member of the annual Ottawa Venture and Technology Summit (OVTS) organizing committee.

 

As VP of Corporate Business Development at Newbridge, he managed strategic investment programs, from start-up to exit, in more than 20 companies. As VP and GM of the Newbridge ATMnet Business Unit, Claude grew the unit from inception to a $200-million-per-annum business. Also at Newbridge, Claude managed the Severn Bridge Investments fund, investing in 12 companies and returning more than triple the invested capital. He also held senior management positions at Mitel Corporation and Leigh Instruments.

 

Claude holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Lakehead University, has completed the Canadian Securities Course and is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario. He has been a guest lecturer at universities on entrepreneurship, business planning and venture investing.

 

 

Tom Duxbury, Sprott School of Business

Tom is a new technology specialist who has been creating products, building teams and launching ventures for thirty years. He has held founding and senior executive roles in many entrepreneurial ventures, including DragonWave, Gridpoint, Newbridge/Alcatel, Mitel, and Pika Technologies. A widely patented inventor, Tom currently teaches innovation management at Carleton’s Sprott School of Business while completing his PhD there.

 

 

David Hudson, Director of Lead to Win

 

David V. Hudson is the Director of the Lead to Win program and is a student in the doctoral program at Carleton University¹s Eric Sprott School of Business. Until December 2008, Mr. Hudson was Nortel¹s Vice President for Advanced Research and Technology Labs. Since 1988, he held increasingly responsible management positions in Nortel both in engineering and product line management. Mr. Hudson worked in all of Nortel Networks¹ product lines, including enterprise, mobility and metro. He has held the Nortel seat on a number of university advisory boards. Mr. Hudson received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

He graduated from the Systems Design program at the University of Waterloo and his graduate work focused on pattern recognition and signal processing applied to earth resources imagery.

 

Moderator: Walter Knitl, The Ottawa Network

 

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