Board of Directors

Allan Larmour – Chairman of the Board

Al is a proven business visionary in the world of information technology. He has extensive experience in developing strategic business plans and go-to-market strategies for large and early stage companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in high tech industry, including co-founding Mobidia Technology Inc. and holding Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing with L3 Technologies, IP Applications and EXL Information Corp., and Regional Sales Manager for Data General Corp. He has won many awards as a top performer and leader at these companies.

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B.J. (Bert) Cowan BA CFE PCIP – Director

Bert is a founding member and Partner at Competitive Insights Incorporated, a private Canadian-based security management consulting firm. Bert has nearly 50 years experience in the fields of threat and risk assessment, intelligence analysis, business continuity planning, risk management, strategy development, leadership training and team development. A former member of the RCMP, he achieved the rank of Inspector during his 23 year career. In 1984, he joined Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and was appointed CSIS Liaison Officer and Counsellor at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong. Subsequently he was appointed Deputy Director General of the CSIS Foreign Liaison Branch, and then Deputy Director General of the Analysis & Production Branch (RAP) of CSIS. Bert left government service in 1992, and has worked as an industry consultant since that time.

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Tim Webb – VP and Chief Technology Officer

Tim has been involved in the design and development of software tools throughout his career. His broad experience has included design, development and implementation of database systems, simulation models, statistical estimation tools, expert systems, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based software, and data exploration tools. For a number of years, while working with ESSA and Nobility Software Systems Inc., this work focused on the development of the Calyx family of software that uses an expert system combined with GIS to produce tools for environmental impact assessment and land management. Other software designed include systems for the environmental management of training ranges for the Australian and Canadian armed forces and an advanced database system for the tracking and management of environmental impact assessment reviews in Vietnam and Thailand.

Tim has coordinated a research project funded by the Canadian government that developed systems to assist in planning for disasters resulting from earthquakes, floods, landslides, and tornadoes. This collection of tools, was a hybrid of GIS, expert systems, and models and allowed the user to rapidly explore various scenarios and determine levels of damage to buildings and facilities, injuries and death, and numbers of people likely to require shelter. Tim has produced a number of similar spatial models (EM-Tools) that are integrated into the EmerGeo mapping application.