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Management

Clovis Najm – CEO

  • Clovis NajmExperienced start-up CEO; 15 years product development, sales, marketing, business strategy expertise
  • Non-Elephant Encryption, IKON Technologies, Internet entrepreneur
  • B-Comm, University of Victoria and Graduate Study Certificate of the E.U., University of Rouen
  • http://www.linkedin.com/pub/clovis-najm/0/72/773

Clovis, as CEO and Chairman of the board, is responsible for formulating business and technology strategies as well as managing and growing Mobio.He bringsover 15 years of entrepreneurship, e-commerce, product marketing,and technology sales experience to the team. Previously working for Non-Elephant Encryption Systems as VP of Marketing, he was responsible for the development of the initial Ne² commercialization marketing strategy. Prior to that, Clovis provided business and sales plans for numerous Internet-based technology start-ups.

He received a B-Comm from the University of Victoria, and a Graduate Study Certificate of the European Union from the University of Rouen, France.

 

Bernd Petak – CFO

  • Bernd PetakSeasoned Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Overall life Enthusiast
  • Deloitte Consulting Partner, Founder MLI Inc., CEO of OA Solutions
  • MBA Ivey School of Business U. Western Ontario (Dean’s Honour List 1993) and Honours Computer Science Degree U. Manitoba
  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/berndpetak

Bernd's role at Mobio includes the provision of financial and administrative leadership. He also acts as Secretary to the Board of Directors.

His career has spanned the High Technology, Communications and New Media segments. He is a former management consulting partner of Deloitte, a seasoned entrepreneur having founded MLI Inc, a developer and publisher of computer games for affinity groups, and the former CEO of OA Solutions, a professional services firm with clients throughout North America. Bernd has also acted as a buyers representative for corporate acquirers, and as a due diligence agent for prominent Venture Capitalists.

Bernd is the Principal at his own consulting company which specializes in high technology strategy, operations and investment. He is active in the Technology Startup community as advisor and consultant to Compass Engine (Games), OMI Inc. (Gamified New Media) and numerous others through Bootup Entrepreneurial Society, a Vancouver area incubator. 

Bernd holds an MBA from Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario (Dean's Honour List 1993), and an Honours Computer Science degree from the University of Manitoba.

 

Mark Binns – CMO

  • Mark BinnsFounded Torque Customer Strategy (sold privately in 2009)
  • Clients included RIM, Cisco, Rogers. 14+ years marketing and customer acquisition strategy expertise.  Globe & Mail “Top 40 under 40” nominee.
  • MBA Ivey School of Business U. Western Ontario (Dean’s Honour List 2004) and Scholar Graduate of the Computer Science Honours program Acadia U.
  • http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-binns/0/232/93

Mark Binns has over 15 years of experience building customer-driven marketing strategies and customer experience programs. Mark has founded, built, and sold two consulting companies who advised Fortune 1000 technology companies including RIM, Cisco and Rogers. He has led his companies to PROFIT HOT 50 and PROFIT HOT 100 awards, and was nominated by Dean Carol Stephenson of the Richard Ivey School of Business for the "Top 40 Under 40".

Mark is has an MBA from Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario (Dean's Honour List 2004), and Scholar Graduate of the Computer Science Honors program at Acadia University.

 

Dr. Andrew Csinger – Director R&D

  • Dr. Andrew CsingerFounder and CEO, Xcert (sold to RSA in 2001). Founder, Group Telecom (IPO 2001).
  • Xcert Software Inc., Dategrity Corp., A2B Fiber, Group Telecom, EIR at UBC.
  • 20+ years high technology Management, Development, M & A, and PKI expertise.
  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/csinger

Dr. Csinger is advisor to, and director of, a number of startup companies. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence and Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. In 1996 he founded Xcert Software, a technology leader in internet security that was later acquired by RSA Technologies. Other positions Dr. Csinger has held include Executive VP of Product Strategy and Development at Dategrity Corp., and CIO at Group Telecom where he developed and operated the first PKI Certification Authority and Repository to be licensed under Washington State Digital Signature legislation. This certification influenced the adoption of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000 and was an early model for the adoption of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).

 

Patrick Audley – Chief Architect and VP of Engineering

  • Patrick AudleyVeteran of many successful start-ups (Axion Internet, Group Telecom)· Experienced with High-level security – Ran a highly successful national audit
  • High Performance Computing Manager at one of the world's top ten biological research labs at the University of Dundee in Scotland
  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickaudley

As a serial startup entrepreneur, Patrick has led the technical development and operations at ventures ranging from crowdsourcing, traditional manufacturing, telcom to mobile commerce.   His responsibilities have included performing security audits on national telco networks, building super computing clusters and figuring out inventive ways to incent the masses in directed crowd projects.  He designed and project-managed the construction of one of the only PKI facilities certified under Washington State's digital signature legislation for digital notaries.