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Daniel Blanche has 28 years of experience in the areas of business development, marketing and operations management in the information technology and communications sector.

Before joining CRIM in 2010, Mr. Blanche was president and chief executive officer of Triton Electronik, a contractual provider of electronic design and manufacturing services. During his nine years at the helm, the company completed four acquisition and financing transactions.

Mr. Blanche previously served as vice-president, global operations and supply chain, at Emerson Electric, where his responsibilities encompassed multiple production facilities in Asia, Mexico, Brazil, the UK and North America. Prior to that, he was vice-president of marketing and business development at Nortel. During his tenure there, sales of high-power electronic products grew by 500%.

Daniel Blanche graduated from the Institute of Corporate Director’s governance college, earning the designation ICD.D at McGill University and serves on the boards of various high-tech companies. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration (marketing and international) from HEC Montreal in 1981 and 1986.

Mr. Farhat Ali

President and Chief Executive Officer, Fujitsu America

Mr. Claude Bélisle

Vice-President, Satellite Communications and Radio Propagation Research Branch, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)

Mr. Daniel Blanche

President and CEO, CRIM

Mr. Jim Carroll

Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert

Mr. Patrick Chanezon

Team Manager, Client and Cloud Advocacy, Google

Mr. François Coallier, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

Mr. Robert Courteau

Senior Vice-President, Business Solutions, Fujitsu Canada

Mr. Mourad Debbabi, Ph.D.

Vice-President, NCFTA, and CIISE Director & Professor, CU Research Chair Tier 1 in Information System Security, Concordia University

Mr. François Gratton

Senior Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Business Solutions, TELUS Québec

Mr. David E. Hershberg

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Globecomm

Mr. Austin Hill

Canadian entrepreneur, angel investor, Co-founder and CEO, Akoha

Mr. Tom Jenkins

Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation

Mr. Henri Kaufman

President, HiP iP iP

Ms. Najoua Kooli

Project Manager, CEFRIO

Mr. Sylvain Lafrance

Executive Vice-President, Radio-Canada

Mr. Claude lemay

Vice-President Québec, ITAC and Chief Executive Officer, WCIT 2012

Mr. Mark Lowenstein

Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem

Mr. Yannis Mallat

Chief Executive Officer, Ubisoft Montréal & Ubisoft Toronto

Mr. Stéphane Marceau

Chief Marketing Officer, Yellow Pages Group

Mr. Jeff McDowell

Senior Vice President, Business Marketing & Alliances, Research in Motion (RIM)

Mr. André Mondoux, Ph.D.

Researcher, columnist and professor, UQAM

Mr. Andy Piper

Consulting IT and Social Media Specialist, IBM Consulting

Mr. Sébastien Provencher

Co-founder, Praized Media

Mr. David Robertson, Ph.D.

Professor, Innovation, Technology Management, and IT, IMD - International Institute for Management Development

Ms. Clara Shih

CEO, Hearsay Labs and Author, The Facebook Era

Ms. Jennifer Stoddart

Privacy Commissioner of Canada