Management Team
Mike Morrow, President and CEO
Mike brings over 19 years of experience in the design, implementation and marketing of emergency management and major event security planning systems in government and industry. He has managed more than 40 major crisis management systems development and implementation projects around the world, including security planning and response systems for the 2002 G8 Summit Meeting in Kananaskis and emergency management information system implementations for Western Australia, Washington State, the B.C. Provincial Emergency Program, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sempra Energy and dozens of local government jurisdictions.
Mike is a “hands-on” emergency management practitioner who has supported many emergency exercises and has worked alongside emergency responders during several major emergencies and special events in Canada, the USA and Australia. Mike has helped government and industry to effectively implement incident management systems, leveraging technology whenever practical.
Mike is an active member of several emergency management associations and a contributor to emergency management industry groups. Mike holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary (Alberta) and gained his technical training from IBM Canada as a Systems Engineer and Marketing Representative for some of IBM’s large oil and gas customers.
Tim Webb, Vice President 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.
Tim is the Chief Technology Officer and lead developer of the EmerGeo system.
Tony M. Ricci, CA, Chief Financial Officer
Tony is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of practice experience, mainly with public companies listed on Canadian and US stock exchanges. Mr. Ricci is currently also CFO of Keegan Resources Inc. and was formerly a director and CFO of Norsemont Mining Inc. and Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. and Petaquilla Copper Ltd., companies with a combined market capitalization exceeding $700 million.
His expertise involves corporate finance, corporate structure and financial reporting. Mr. Ricci has also been involved as director or officer of numerous other public companies and acted as the founder of TSX listed Carmanah Technologies Corp.
Mr. Ricci previously worked at Amec (formerly H.A. Simons Ltd.) and KPMG. Mr. Ricci provides EmerGeo Solutions with extensive experience in the areas of corporate finance, acquisitions, financial reporting, corporate governance and accounting, and corporate structure advice.
Bryce Mitchell, Director of Sales and Marketing (Middle East)
Bryce has over two decades of leadership experience in International Sales, Marketing and Operations in the software industry. Including, successful selling to Global 2000 accounts, Government Departments and Ministries; most recently to Financial, Government, Insurance, Manufacturing and Transportation verticals.
Prior to joining EmerGeo, Bryce held a successful role in Strategic Sales and Sales Operations, Asia Pacific Theatre, at Cisco Systems (Pte.) Inc. in Singapore and co-founder and Executive VP of Sales and Marketing at Securac Holdings, Inc. an international risk management software company. Earlier he was the Managing Director of International Operations at Knowledge Impact, Inc. in Boston, MA.
Bryce also has extensive public speaking experience at International Conferences and Forums throughout North America, China, Japan, India, Australia, Hong Kong, S.E. Asia and Europe.
Professional Services
Dean Monterey, Vice President – Professional Services
Dean has 30 years of practical international experience in emergency management as a responder, manager and senior business and government advisor. His years of experience are supplemented by an undergraduate degree and extensive courses in the emergency management field.
Dean has responded to numerous major public events and emergencies worldwide, including
- 1988 Olympic Winter Games
- 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill
- 1991 Gulf War – assisted the governments of Bahrain and Qatar in dealing with the world’s largest oil spill
- 1999 Kosovar refugee airlift crisis
- 2003 British Columbia firestorm
- 2006 BC Ferry, M.V. Queen of the North, which sank losing two lives
Dean has conducted Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessments, developed emergency response and recovery plans and strategic program plans for hundreds of governments and private corporations.
Dean authored the Canadian National Incident Command System. This is the authorized and required curriculum for all wildfire agencies in Canada.
Gary Craig, CGA, Vice President – Finance & Administration
Gary, a Certified General Accountant, brings to EmerGeo over 15 years of financial reporting experience, primarily with multi-national technology companies. During his career, Gary has been instrumental in establishing controls and reporting processes to allow companies to effectively grow. His career path has provided him with involvement with several debt and equity financing ventures as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Joining the Company in 2008, Gary is responsible for the accounting, financial reporting and administration functions for EmerGeo’s operations worldwide. Gary’s focus is to enhance and protect shareholder value, streamlining business processes, and providing management with accurate and timely financial information to assist them in achieving EmerGeo’s corporate objectives.
Prior to joining EmerGeo, Gary worked as Controller for Longview Solutions Inc., a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software company. Earlier, Gary worked at Celestica, a global electronic manufacturing services company, in various positions of increasing responsibility in both the corporate and regional finance teams.
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