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The Data Deposit Box Leadership Team
Data Deposit Box is led by a group of technology entrepreneurs with strong business-driving skills. Backed by an experienced Board of Directors, the team has a record of working successfully together—a natural fit for achievement in technology and business.
Jamie Brenzel - Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director Jamie brings over 15 years of experience in investment banking and entrepreneurial startups to his role as CEO of Data Deposit Box.
Jamie's prior business accomplishments are long and varied. He was at Salomon Brothers in London, where he helped build the equity derivatives department into an important profit centre. He then embarked on his future as an entrepreneur, acquiring Wood Printing & Graphics, and later co-founding integrated marketing communications company Sonar Group.
Jamie then established a solid foundation for Truition, an eCommerce service company for clients such as Dell Financial Services, CompUSA and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Jamie holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.
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Tim Jewell - Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Director Tim is the inventor of Data Deposit Box. His main goal was - and continues to be - the enhancement of our products to drive client satisfaction. As Tim puts it, "I do very complicated things to make our customers' lives simpler."
One of his early achievements was streamlining the office practices at IBM with an online fax product that eliminated bottlenecks for the sales team during product releases. Observing that time-consuming lineups would occur frequently, he designed a solution that was then sold to 8 other IBM offices around the world.
Prior to developing Data Deposit Box, Tim was a Marketing Representative and Systems Engineer at IBM, where he put his expertise and insight to use in all ends of the product development spectrum.
Striking out on his own as an IT consultant, Tim developed internet-based solutions for a variety of clients, from technology vendors to major Canadian finance organizations.
Tim eventually became CTO for one of his clients: BayStreetDirect.com, which was recently bought by NIAD Systems.
Tim holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
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Rob Schenkel - Founder & Technology Director Rob's significant software design and web development experience is an asset often utilized as he continues updating the web interface and related features to fit the changing needs of users and ISPs.
Rob came to Data Deposit Box with extensive experience developing online e-commerce applications for technology-driven companies through his own firm, Robert Schenkel Consulting. For NIAD Systems, he oversaw the web presence and the interaction model between investors and syndication managers.
During the early stages of his career, Rob worked with a number of high-profile organizations such as BayStreetDirect.com, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and McDonald's Restaurant of Canada developing database applications and other web-based technologies.
Rob holds an Honours B. Sc. in Computing and Computer Electronics from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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M.W. (Peggy) Bennett - Chief Financial Officer Peggy Bennett is an experienced Chartered Accountant whose expertise has been called upon by a wide range of clients, many of whom are involved in the venture capital and financial services industry.
Ms. Bennett obtained her C.A. in 1979 while with Deloitte, where she worked as a tax manager. She went on to open her own accounting practice in 1990. More recently, Ms. Bennett has served as CFO for Polar Capital Corporation, which operates a group of offshore hedge funds, as well as a private equity division.
Peggy has served as CFO for Data Deposit Box since its inception, and is responsible for all accounting and taxation matters for the company.
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Eric Goodwin - Non-Executive Director & Chairman Eric Goodwin is a serial entrepreneur and over the past 40 years has always worked in a start-up environment. He currently sits on several Boards and acts as an advisor to VCs and management teams on building software businesses.
Most recently Goodwin came out of retirement in January 2007 to join Fortiva Inc as CEO. Fortiva was an innovative, in the Cloud, email compliance and archiving system. Goodwin successfully changed the primary go-to-market strategy to the channel, and invested in developing productive partnerships with Microsoft and MessageLabs. In June of 2008, Fortiva had a successful sale to Proofpoint, a leader in email security. In July of 2004 he retired as the CEO of Klocwork after taking the company to the next level through a 'B round' of venture funding and initiating two years of rapid growth. Klocwork was the last spinout from Nortel, and provides a software development platform for improving productivity and quality of software by using deep static analysis. Prior to joining klocwork, Goodwin served as CEO of FloNetwork Inc. from July 1999 to July 2001 when it was sold to DoubleClick (NASDAQ: DCLK). During that period FloNetwork grew from a 25 person company to over 200, and was the acknowledged leader in email relationship management. FloNetwork was recognized in the Deloitte & Touche Fast50 as the 20th fastest growing high technology company in Canada, and the top half of the Fast500 for technology companies in North America.
Previously he had been a co-founder and CEO of Fulcrum Technologies. Goodwin led one of the early IPO's for a Canadian company on NASDAQ (FULCF) in 1993. The company was in the top ten of Canadian software companies and was ultimately sold to PC DOCS, now part of Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX). Over a 12-year period, Goodwin guided Fulcrum through its early customer wins, strategic partnerships and investments, increasing mainstream adoption, an initial and secondary offering and, finally, strategic acquisition. Under his leadership, Fulcrum and its customers won several prestigious awards for growth and excellence, including a ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award, CrossRoads A-List, Software Magazine's Top 100 and many others. Eric has 45 years of operational and management experience. He has served on the boards of private and public companies, has held management operating roles and turnaround assignments, and has worked with companies through the IPO and strategic sale process. Goodwin has participated or led a dozen exits.
Goodwin has a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University. He has received a number of personal and corporate awards including the Canadian Advanced Technology Association's award for Private Sector Leadership, and was named as one of Canada's top 10 technology CEOs by Canadian Business Magazine. He is married and has three children, all successful entrepreneurs.
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Neil Selfe - Non-Executive Director Neil Selfe is a Managing Director, Investment Banking at GMP Securities and heads up the technology, communications, structured products and financial institutions coverage groups.
Before joining GMP, Neil was the co-founder and Managing Partner of Diversified Global Asset Management (DGAM), an alternative asset management firm with in excess of $2 billion of assets under management.
Prior to this, Neil was with RBC Capital Markets for nine years as a Managing Director and co-head of global Communication, Media and Technology Investment Banking and a member of the Management Committee of RBC Capital Partners.
Before joining RBC Capital Markets, Neil was a senior corporate and securities practitioner with the law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt and prior to that held positions with the Ontario Securities Commission and Deloitte & Touche. Neil is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation.
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Peter Carroll - Non-Executive Director Peter has spent the past 20 years helping businesses successfully establish technological offerings.
In 1994, at the starting point of the internet's immersion in the consumer marketplace, he co-founded EntreVision and oversaw the company's growth from a partnership of four IT consultants to a web development firm of 150 employees. In 2000, Quebecor Inc. bought EntreVision to form the cornerstone of its interactive internet application development initiatives. The new company Nurun became the largest web integrator in Canada.
Prior to EntreVision, Peter combined technological and financial expertise in his role as a Business Systems Analyst for Burns Fry (now Nesbitt Burns). He then spent a year in Malaysia, building a futures & options exchange as a Program Manager for Andersen Consulting.
Peter graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
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