People – An introduction to some of us

We help enterprises to draw upon their communities to better perform.

Chaordix is a product developed by the people of Cambrian House. Below are profiles of the members of that team that direct the success of Chaordix.

Leadership

Shelley Kuipers – President & CEO

Shelley became President of Cambrian House in 2007 after getting to know the company as a Director on its Board. Cambrian House focuses on developing technology ventures that emerged from its own crowdsourced discoveries. Shelley champions Cambrian House’s flagship product Chaordix - a technology platform that enables organizations to harness the wisdom, participation and commercial potential of online crowds for business purposes. Shelley is also co-founder and partner in Adventure Capital, a specialized venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies, and co-founder and partner in Material Insight a consultancy of growth agents that help to grow tech startups.

Shelley came to focus on technology after starting her career in the petroleum sector. Her first startup was Merak Projects, a provider of valuation and management software for the petroleum industry. She joined Merak in 1990 and professionalized their consulting and support services and recruited 60 per cent of the company’s 250 people - key assets in the valuation that led to its acquisition by Schlumberger in 1999. In 2000, Shelley co-founded Stormworks - a software development and online marketing firm. The company began as a member of the Launchworks group - a series of companies established to incubate technology startups. In 2002, Stormworks was acquired by Solium Capital, a publicly-traded financial software company ranked among the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 since 2006.

Shelley’s experience has led her to invest in and direct technology ventures on starting up and scaling their businesses through financing, strategy, operations, team performance, product distribution, and strategic relationships.

Patrick Audley – VP Technology of Cambrian House

Patrick contributes a wide range of experience in Internet security and privacy technologies and programming as leader of the Chaordix technical team. Patrick has developed skills in designing and implementing PKI, Deep firewall and IDS, and can perform advanced security audits for many platforms and networks. Patrick worked at Group Telecom as Manager of PKI development, and as Senior Ecommerce Architect/Designer. While there, he guided the operations of GT’s PKI, acted in a business development role for PKI opportunities and maintained continuous involvement in application development and maintenance. Patrick has also designed and supervised the construction of two high-security PKI vaults, and coordinated a national audit of GT’s networks, systems, and physical security, encompassing over 2000 systems, 1000 networks, 3 autonomous routing domains, and 16 cities.

Patrick has been published as well, and has applied for patents regarding two separate secure online systems. Patrick is fluent in 5 programming languages including C++, Perl, and SQL, and is proficient in many others. His experience and knowledge in programming, hardware, networking, and security make Patrick an invaluable member of Cambrian House’s management team.

Board & Advisors

Brian Craig, Chair of Cambrian House Board

Brian Craig is an investor and serves on the Board of several early-stage companies – public, private, energy, technology – and is a passionate ‘architect’ of emerging businesses. Brian possesses the experience, knowledge, and patience to help guide these companies through their early life experiences. The clarity to succeed, the drive to win and the discipline to execute are all attributes of the companies that Brian associates with.

Brian is currently a principal at a Calgary-based angel capital company called Adventure Capital. Brian is a former CEO and current Director of publicly traded software company Solium Capital (SUM: TSX.V), an emerging leader in the supply of equity-based compensation solutions for global companies. Brian is an engineer with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton).

Margot Micallef, Director of Cambrian House Board

Ms. Margot M. Micallef, Q.C. is founder and President of Oliver Capital Partners Inc., a private equity investment and advisory firm offering corporate and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to public and private companies. Oliver’s portfolio companies include, amongst others:

• Vista Broadcast Group Inc., which indirectly through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vista Radio Ltd., owns and operates 25 radio stations in Western Canada;
• Subway Development 2000 Inc., the Development Agent for British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and NWT of the Subway Franchise System;
• Hollywood Foods Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of high protein, low carbohydrate pasta;

Ms Micallef is also an Adjunct Professor in governance and ethics for the MBA Program at the University of Alberta and is on the Faculty of the Directors College, a joint venture between McMaster University and the Conference Board of Canada.

Prior to founding Oliver Capital Partners Inc., Ms. Micallef was a Senior Vice-President of Shaw Communications Inc., in Calgary, Alberta; a Partner with Russell and Dumoulin (now Fasken Martineau DuMoulin) in Vancouver, British Columbia; and was a co-instructor for the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia.

Ms. Micallef was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2002.

Ms. Micallef has served on a number of public and private company boards. She currently serves: as the Chair & CEO of Vista Broadcast Inc.; sits on the board of CanWest Global Communications Inc.; ENMAX Corporation where she Chairs the Corporate Governance Committee; The Cambrian House Inc., and Subway Developments 2000 Inc. where she is also the Executive Chair. In addition, Ms. Micallef is active in her community through fund raising initiatives which in the past have included: The Alberta Ballet, The Alberta Ballet School of Dance, the HR MacMillan Planetarium, Homes of Hope and the Intensive Care Foundation of Alberta. Currently she serves as the Co-Chair of the Alberta fundraising initiative for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. She is also on the Board of Directors of Canadian Women in Communications and the BC Association of Broadcasters.