dna13 board of directors.

After spending 13 years in senior sales, marketing and operations roles in IBM Corporation and Xerox Corporation, Howard joined PeopleSoft Inc. From November 1994 to January 2000, Howard held a variety of executive management positions including; VP and General Manager Canadian Operations, VP and Managing Director European Operations, SVP International Operations and EVP World Wide Operations.
During his last role at PeopleSoft Howard managed a 3000 person team, responsible for all company revenue streams. During his tenure, the company grew from <$100M in revenue to $1.3B.

Starting in January 2000, Howard was President of Solect Technology Group, a global provider of billing, customer care and service management software for the telecommunications industry. In April 2000, Howard helped orchestrate the sale of Solect to Amdocs Inc. a world leader in customer management billing systems. The transaction (US$1.2B) was the largest ever for a private Canadian software company.

Howard serves on the boards of; Longview Solutions Corp. (Chairman), Marqui Corporation (Chairman), Cirba Inc., Kinaxis Inc., MKS Inc., Taleo Corporation (Lead Director) and Blast Radius Inc.

Howard has previously served on the boards of seven private and public companies in the high technology marketplace. Howard has served on both Audit and Compensation Committees for TSX and Nasdaq listed companies and is considered an expert in board governance and board effectiveness.

Howard has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

Chris Johnson has over 19 years experience in both the technology and communications industries. Chris is dedicated to overseeing and managing the strategic direction of dna13 and its software products. He has worked extensively in corporate communications and public relations for Fortune 1000 companies.

Prior to founding dna13, Chris managed a successful technology consulting firm and has played senior management roles in both software and technology organizations. His previous experience includes corporate strategy and communications for Canada’s largest telecommunication firm; Bell Canada.

Chris has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communications from Carleton University’s School of Journalism.

Andrew Waitman is Managing Partner of Celtic House Venture Partners, a private venture capital firm with headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Celtic House is a leading investor in early-stage technology companies in North America and Europe with more than US$500 million under management. Celtic House is actively investing its third fund of US$225 million in semiconductors, systems and software start-ups.

Prior to joining Celtic House, Andrew was a member of Nortel's scientific staff, responsible for designing and developing telephony software systems. He then moved to Citibank Canada, structuring interest rates, currency and equity derivatives for corporate clients. After that, he was a senior technology analyst for Toronto-based brokerage Eagle & Partners (now Dundee Securities), covering the Canadian high-technology industry. He brought all his professional strengths to Celtic House, where he became managing partner in 2000.

Mr. Waitman currently sits on the boards of Ottawa based companies dna13, Fidus Systems, ModaSolutions, Third Brigade and TrialStat in addition to the boards of Got Corporation and NoHold. He is also an observer Board member at Diablo Technologies and Memsic Semiconductor. He is on the advisory board of Genesys Capital and Latitude Partners. He also sits on the non-profit board of Shad Valley.

Mr. Waitman has served on more than 21 start-up Boards in Canada, the United States and the UK, including: Abatis Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), Avesta Technologies (acquired by Visual Networks), BlueArc, FastLane Technologies (acquired by Quest Software), OctigaBay Systems (acquired by Cray), OLAP@work (acquired by Business Objects), Orchestream (IPO on LSE), PixStream (acquired by Cisco Systems), Sandvine (IPO on AIM/TSX) and Ubiquity Software (IPO on AIM).

Andrew has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a MBA (with distinction) from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.

Stephen Miles is the Regional Managing Partner, Americas, within Heidrick & Struggles' Leadership Consulting Practice, and he oversees the worldwide Executive Assessment/Succession Planning Practice. In fact, Stephen has over 13 years of experience in assessment, succession planning, organizational effectiveness and strategy consulting. He is also a member of the CEO and Board Practice.

Stephen focuses on CEO succession and has partnered with numerous Boards of Fortune 500 companies to ensure a successful leadership selection and transition occurs. He is a recognized expert on the role of the Chief Operating Officer and has consulted to numerous companies on the establishment and the effectiveness of the position. Additionally, he coaches a small number of very senior global executives at the COO/CEO level. He focuses on high performance coaching with a heavy emphasis on the business and cultural context. Stephen works extensively internationally and his clients cut across all industry sectors.

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Stephen held various positions at Andersen Consulting.

Stephen earned a Bachelor's degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada in Psychology and a Master's degree from the University of Victoria, also in Psychology. He received his MBA from Queen's University.

Prior to joining Propulsion Ventures in 2006 as a Managing Partner, Thomas was CEO of angel-financed GoodContacts (P2P contact verification software) in Ottawa from 2002 to 2005 until sold to Reunion.com of Los Angeles. From 1998 to 2001, Thomas was CEO of venture-financed Pyderion Contact Technologies in Montreal until sold to Intecom of Dallas. Pyderion was the market leader in software for managing networked multi-vendor contact centers.

Thomas’ background also includes founding a CTI product marketing consulting company, being regional director of sales of a start-up PC leasing business and being the call center product manager at Nortel.

Thomas currently sits on the boards of the following software companies: Moda Solutions (internet payments), ShopIt.com (P2P transaction platform for social networks) and Ivara (reliability centered maintenance). Thomas’ previous board experience includes: TelWeb (internet payphones), SatCop (satellite PBXs), NetCorp (QoS routers), BabyTel (VoIP carrier), Excendia (Outlook-by-Phone ASP) and N-Dimension (open source security appliance).

Thomas holds a B.A. of Mathematics from Queen’s University, a B.Sc. Honours in Computer Science from Queen’s University, and a MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business University of Western Ontario.