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Board of Directors

  • Martin Burian (Chairman)

    Managing Director, Investment Banking at RCI Capital Group

    Mr. Burian holds ICD.D (Institute of Corporate Directors), and Chartered Professional Accountant designations. He has a 30-year career in investment banking, is currently Managing Director at RCI Capital Group and held similar senior positions at Haywood Securities, Bolder Investment Partners and Canaccord Capital.  Mr. Burian is an independent member of several other public company boards as well as privately-held Heffel Gallery Limited where he is also part-time CFO.

  • Guido Cloetens

    Chairman & CEO of Elysee Development Corp

    Since 2012 Mr. Cloetens is the Chairman and CEO of Elysee Development Corp an investment company listed on the TSX-V under the symbol ELC. Mr. Cloetens is a Certified investment advisor (EHSAL Brussels) and holds a degree in Corporate Finance, Investment and financial statement analysis (ULB). After a career of 25 years working for different European banks in wealth management and institutional investing Mr. Cloetens’ focus now is on assisting junior companies in raising capital and creating investor awareness.

  • Werner Gartner

    CMA and Technology Investor

    Mr. Gartner has over 24 years executive/board experience with technology based businesses, including NovAtel Inc., Hemisphere GNSS Inc., 4iiii Innovation Inc, Psyko Audio Labs Inc. and Novariant Inc. He is a member of the A100, an organization composed of technology company founders and entrepreneurs focused on growing the Alberta technology sector. Mr. Gartner received a B.Sc. from Western University in Ontario and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

  • Dr. Michal Okoniewski

    Acceleware Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder

    Dr. Okoniewski has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University, Gdansk, is a fellow of IEEE and is a Professor for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary.  Michal is a renowned expert in applied electrodynamics and RF/antenna engineering, with a proven history of developing leading-edge scientific solutions for the electronic, medical and energy industries.  Michal has pioneered the field of hardware acceleration of computational electromagnetics, authoring over 350 technical publications and patents. His GPU accelerated FDTD solver, for example, revolutionized the engineering of electronic devices and are being applied to the energy industry for the production of heavy oils in unconventional reservoirs.

  • Dr. René Lenggenhager

    Co-CEO bNovate Technologies SA

    Dr. Lengggenhager is an experienced CEO, Group Head and General Manager with a successful career in leading global technology companies, including at Bruker Biospin, COMET, Mettler Toledo and Siemens. René holds a PhD from ETH in Switzerland and an MBA from University of St. Gallen. In addition, he holds professional certifications from MIT Sloan School in Digital Business Strategy/AI, University of St. Gallen in Swiss Board School, IMD Lausanne in Orchestrating Winning Performance, and INSEAD Fontainebleau in Advanced Industrial Marketing Strategy. During his career of over 35 years, Dr. Lenggenhager has amassed a tremendous amount of experience in all aspects of scaling industrial technology organizations, and now has keen interest in assisting start-up companies create value and grow into successful world-class businesses.

  • Sean Krakiwsky

    President & Chief Executive Officer, Founder

    Nanalysis is Mr. Krakiwsky’s third tech start-up over a 20 year period, raising over $25M in equity funding for those companies. Previously he founded and built a high performance computing company called Acceleware (TSXV:AXE) providing software solutions to harness the parallel processing capabilities of multi-core GPUs/CPUs for the Electronic Design and Oil & Gas industries. Mr. Krakiwsky has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey club in 1986 – he played in their farm system for two years, before going back to school in 1990.