Keith Parsonage, P. Eng., B.A.Sc., M.B.A. Keith is currently Principal of Keith Parsonage and Associates providing networking, advisory, coaching and management consulting services primarily to the technology community. Keith brings to bear over thirty five years of private, not-for profit and public sector management experience with people, processes and projects. He has been an informed advocate and policy advisor, marketer and facilitator of Canadian industry interests and capabilities domestically and extensively internationally. More recently Keith served as the Managing Director of the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Communications and Information Technology fostering industry/academic collaborations. In his former role as Director General of the ICT Branch of Industry Canada, Keith Parsonage championed the interests of Canada's ICT industry and was instrumental in accelerating this country's advanced networks and applications. His private sector experience ranges from small family owned operations to a major multinational. Keith has been committed to ensuring that Canada was recognized both at home and abroad as a high tech innovative supplier of products and services. He has been a member of the Board of the Telecommunications Executive Management Institute of Canada and CMC Microsystems. For over a decade, as the Government of Canada's Program Manager, he served on the boards of CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Internet organization, PRECARN, an advanced research network in an observer capacity. He continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation.