Boardroom Media (CFO News)
At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Canada based CFO’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dan Cohrs
Chief Financial Officer of D-Wave Systems
Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Mr. Cohrs was appointed Chief Financial Officer of our general partner in July 2011. Since October 2008, Dan Cohrs has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Rentech, and is responsible for all finance and accounting functions; mergers and acquisitions; corporate strategy; government affairs and external communications of the company. Mr. Cohrs brings more than two decades of experience in corporate finance, strategy and planning and mergers and acquisitions. Joining Rentech from the private investment and consulting firm Skycrest Ventures, LLC, Mr. Cohrs previously held senior positions in corporate strategy, development and finance in industry-leading companies such as Marriott, Northwest Airlines, GTE and Global Crossing, where he was Chief Financial Officer for five years. In those positions, Mr. Cohrs built and managed global financial and planning organizations, raised more than $25 billion of capital, and participated in some of the largest M&A transactions in the history of the telecommunications industry. Mr. Cohrs has been a strategy consultant with Marakon Associates, and a faculty member at Cornell University and Harvard University, teaching courses in corporate governance and finance. He earned a B.S. degree in engineering from Michigan State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in finance, economics, and public policy from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), D-Wave Systems: D-Wave Systems designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting electronics.
Emilie Boutros
Partner & CFO of TandemLaunch
Since starting her career as a chartered accountant at KPMG, Emilie has led finance functions for prominent technology companies: Softimage, CGI, and most recently for Averna Technologies, a US$30M business with 300 employees, whom she served as CFO. Emilie holds degrees from McGill University, HEC and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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About Kalepso, TandemLaunch: Seed investor & incubator for consumer electronics innovation.
Mandeep Chawla
Chief Financial Officer of Celestica
As Chief Financial Officer, Mandeep Chawla is responsible for overseeing Celestica’s accounting, financial and investor relations functions in order to protect and enhance the company’s shareholder value. Since joining Celestica in 2010, Mandeep has held progressively senior roles in the Finance organization, most recently as Senior Vice President Finance. Prior to joining Celestica, Mandeep held Finance positions with MDS Inc., now Nordion Inc., a health science company; Earth Tech Canada, a subsidiary of Tyco International; and General Electric. Mandeep holds a Master of Finance degree from Queen’s University and Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University. Mandeep is a Certified Management Accountant.
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About Celestica: Celestica is dedicated to building solid partnerships and providing flexible solutions to enable their customers’ success.
Michael Lamontagne
Executive Vice President and CFO of Etratech
Mike joined Etratech after a decade as Chief Financial Officer with Wolseley Canada, following that company’s acquisition of Westburne Canada. Mike built a national finance group from a greatly decentralized organization and worked to ensure good corporate governance for the firm across Canada. He directed the overall financial plans and accounting practices of the Canadian organization as well as monitoring the overall financial performance of each of the Canadian Business units. Mike was responsible for 10 acquisitions for Wolseley in Canada, contributing to a doubling of revenues from $600M+ to $1.3B. He was also responsible for overall leadership of the Finance Group. Prior to joining the Etratech team, Mike served as a board member.
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About Etratech: Etratech specializes in the design, development and manufacture of advanced electronic controls and control systems for global companies.
Kio Murota
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Kobo
Kio is the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer at Kobo, and oversees both the finance team as well as the operational end of the business as it applies to the human resources department and the facilities function for Kobo HQ and its other holdings. His mandate is to assist teams across the organization to think through both the financial implications and operational aspects of any given initiative and their impact on the customer experience.
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About Kobo: Kobo offers an open platform for e-reading.
Andrew Skarupa
Chief Financial Officer of RealD
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About RealD: RealD develops the RealD Cinema technology for projecting films in stereoscopic 3D, using circularly polarized light.
Sarah J MacKinnon
Chief Financial Officer of Delta-Q Technologies
Sarah is a financial executive with over 15 years of experience in both private and public companies. Previously, she held the CFO position at Welco Lumber Corp., a lumber commodity and specialty product distributor. Sarah was also Director, Finance at Xantrex, a TSX-listed manufacturer and marketer of raw electrical energy conversion products. Sarah is a Chartered Accountant and obtained her Bachelor of commerce degree from the University of British Columbia.
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About Delta-Q Technologies: Delta-Q Technologies manufacturers industrial battery chargers for lead acid and lithium-ion batteries.
Joe Ricci
Vice President & CFO of Firan Technology Group
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About Firan Technology Group: North American manufacturer of high technology printed circuit boards and precision illuminated display systems.
Ed Mattei
Chief Financial Officer of Mircom
Ed is a Chartered Accountant (Ontario) and also holds a Masters of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University. With greater than 20 years of progressive business experience, Ed’s previous professional experiences also included executive roles in corporate development and corporate taxation.
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About Mircom: Mircom is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of Intelligent Building Solutions.
Ed Mattei
Chief Financial Officer of Mircom
Ed is a Chartered Accountant (Ontario) and also holds a Masters of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University. With greater than 20 years of progressive business experience, Ed’s previous professional experiences also included executive roles in corporate development and corporate taxation.
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About Mircom: Mircom is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of Intelligent Building Solutions.
Rosy Amlani
CFO and VP Business Development of ACAMP
Rosy has more than 20 years in government commercialization activities and private accounting. In a management role with the Canadian federal government, she analyzed business cases for funding, reviewed targeted support for Western Economic Diversification, developed new commercialization organizations and initiatives, and supported Alberta investments of more than $200 million towards economic diversification. In 2005 she was actively involved in the creation of ACAMP. Rosy has dedicated her career to developing strong relationships in the innovation community, and to helping Alberta companies grow their revenue and stature. She is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). Rosy is instrumental in fostering ACAMP’s relationships with industry and government and helps secure funding grants and development resources for both ACAMP and its clients.
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About ACAMP: ACAMP focuses on electronics hardware development comprised of embedded systems and related firmware, sensors.
Mario Laflamme
Chief Financial Officer of Powerside
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About Powerside: Powerside delivers an integrated range of power monitoring, analysis, and power quality services.
Marvin Waiand
Chief Financial Officer & Director of mcThings
Marvin has over 35 years of experience as a financial executive in the power and industrial sector in Canada and internationally including capital markets, accounting, financial reporting, valuations, corporate development, operations, project finance, taxation and risk management. Marvin is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta and Financial Executives International.
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About mcThings: mcThings is a measurement and control platform for the Internet of Things.
Christopher Ozdoba
CFO of Lumican
Christopher Ozdoba is the chief financial officer of Lumican LED.
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About Lumican: Lumican provides energy management systems and end-to-end LED lighting retrofit solutions.
John Chase
VP of finance and CFO of Power Measurement
John has over 25 years of business and financial experience. He has worked for Amazon.com’s marketplace division, Exchange.com, an early competitor of eBay, and Rounder Records – the world’s largest independent record label. Massachusetts-based Exchange.com was an online marketplace that specialized in niche markets, such as rare books, and eventually purchased Bibliofind.com – one of AbeBooks’ early competitors. Amazon then acquired both Exchange.com and Bibilofind, and John relocated to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in 1999. John initially served as chief financial executive for Amazon’s fledgling marketplace division before being appointed director of finance, planning and analysis. He also spent two years in AbeBooks’ hometown of Victoria, BC, (2003-2005) with Power Measurement – the energy management technology firm – as its chief financial officer.
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About Power Measurement: Power Measurement is a leading provider of enterprise energy management systems for energy suppliers and consumers worldwide.
Rémy Langelier
Chief Financial Officer of Master
Rémy Langelier is the Chief Financial Officer at Master.
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About Master: Master is an independent distributor of air conditioning, refrigeration, heating and ventilation systems in Canada.
