Dr. Scott A. Vanstone(1947–2014)
Co-Founder
- Co-founder of Certicom; Former VP Cryptography Research, Advanced Technology at BlackBerry
- PhD (Mathematics) — University of Waterloo
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Waterloo; Taught for 35 years; 125 Patents; 150 Research Papers
- Authored several books including “The Handbook of Applied Cryptography” and “A Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography”
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences — 1998
- Premier's Award for Lifetime Achievement in Innovation — 2009
- Fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) — 2011
- Canadian Technology Leader Award: Lifetime Achievement Award — 2014 (posthumously awarded)
Sherry Shannon-Vanstone
Co-Founder; President and Chief Executive Officer; Chairman of the Board
- Master of Science Degree (Mathematics) — University of Tennessee
- Formerly: CEO and Director of Arcamatrix; VP, Electronic Commerce, MasterCard International; VP Sales and Marketing, Certicom; Director of International Sales — Asia Pacific, Cylink
- Former Cryptologic Mathematician with the United States Government
- Member of the Perimeter Institute’s Emmy Noether Council
- WOW Innovator of the Year Award — 2015
- Serves on boards of numerous organizations and associations
Bruce MacInnis
Chief Financial Officer
- Bachelor of Commerce Degree — University of Toronto
- Canadian CA and CPA
- 30 years of Financial Management experience — Primarily with early-stage technology companies
- Former Chief Financial Officer of numerous companies including: Prinova, Inc; Redline Communications Limited (TSX:RDL); MyScreen Mobile, Inc. (OTCQB:MYSL); Bioscrypt, Inc. (TSX:BYT) (subsequently acquired by L1 Identity Solutions); Certicom Corp. (TSX:CIC) (subsequently acquired by Research in Motion)
- Has generated in excess of $150 million in capital; Successfully listed companies on the TSX and Nasdaq
- Member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountant’s “Performance
Reporting Board” — 2005–2012
- Currently a member of the Committee’s “Small Company Advisory Group”
Brian Romansky
Strategic Technology
- Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert; Over 25 years experience in advanced security solutions
- Principle consultant for the US DOT V2X Crash Avoid Metrics Partnership (CAMP)
- Master of Management and Technology – R&D Management — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1997
- Bachelor and Master of Science — Electrical Engineering — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Former: Executive Director of Corporate Innovation, Pitney Bowes; VP — Technology & Strategy, SyferLock Technology
- Launched and ran an IT Security R&D lab at Pitney Bowes
- Member of advisory board of SecLingua Inc.
- Inventor on 25 US Patents
Pino Porciello
Product Management and Marketing
- Over 20 years experience in technology product management and development, strategic marketing, and corporate/business development for industrial automation and critical infrastructure industries
- BASc. and MASc — Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo
- MBA — Kellogg School of Management and Schulich School of Business
- Held numerous senior technical and management positions in several early stage technology companies
- Former: President and CEO Systems With Intelligence; VP Marketing, RuggedCom; Product Manager, General Electric
- Co-chair of ITS Canada Automated Vehicle/Connected Vehicle Technical Subcommittee
- As VP Marketing at RuggedCom, helped position company for a successful IPO on the TSX
- A follower of Peter Drucker’s maxim that a business has only two functions — marketing and innovation
Tony Rosati
Business Development — IoT; NFC / RFID and LoRa Technologies
- BSc Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo
- Over 30 years experience in software and data security
- Former: Principal Researcher Cryptography & Standards BlackBerry; VP Marketing Certicom Corp
- Co-founder TimeStep Corporation, start-up specializing in Virtual Private Networks; acquired by Newbridge
- Chair NFC Forum — Security Technical Working Group
- Distinguished Fellow of the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR)
- Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)
Jason Smith
Product Development
- Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- Over 10 years experience in Software Product Development
- Joined TrustPoint Innovation in 2014 as a Senior Software Developer and now leads TrustPoint Innovation’s product development team
- Oversees TrustPoint Innovation’s Certificate Authority (CA) and Public Key Infrastructure functionality, and CA-based solutions
- Former Software Development at OpenText, Amazon.com, Ontario Power Generation
- Established track record in delivering quality products on-time and under budget