Welcome, David Bergeron

David Bergeron is the Director of Information Technology at Kriska Transportation Group. A leader with in-depth knowledge and experience with IT delivery and operations. Successful in setting IT Strategy, roadmap design and execution. A broad range of experience developed from roles in IT service desk, application support, architecture, data center, telecommunications and service management operations. …

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Virtual Executive Presence and Personal Branding

The CIO Association of Canada was pleased to collaborate with Debra Christmas Senior Executive Partner at Gartner to offer our most recent event. This session covered the value of creating a personal brand and how key leaders perceive them. It also covered how to manage your personal brand like the valuable asset it is. We would …

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Welcome, Sorin Egher

Sorin Egher is IT Manager at Dexterra. Innovative, results-oriented management professional with over 10 years of visible achievements providing leading edge technological solutions. Extensive qualifications in all aspects of systems administration, management and maintenance, network/server operations and hardware/software solutions. Exceptional skills in implementation of terms and systems to provide business solutions which increase operational efficiencies. …

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Welcome, Paulo Teves

Paulo Teves is the Manager of Software Development & PMO at Ducks Unlimited Canada. His career focuses around IT and Software development.

Welcome, Amer Khan

Amer M. Khan is the CISO at The Salvation Army. His experience includes: • 10+ years supervisory and Project Management experience. • Strong knowledge of risks and processes relating to InfoSec Technology assets, processes and organizations obtained during 15 years of related industry/technology experience. • Extensive audit and risk management experience gained from working in …

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Welcome, Jim Hicks

Jim Hicks is the Head of Information Technology at Flair Airlines. A highly organized and self-starting Business Development, Telecommunications and Information Technology Executive. Described by superiors as self-motivated, passionate with a strong sense of urgency and work ethic. Courteous, discreet, professional and a natural ability to communicate with all levels of executive and staff. Strong …

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Welcome, Ash Waziry

Ash Waziry is the Director of Operations & IT at Canadian Wildlife Federation. His career focuses around Business Alignment/Relationship Mgmt, Business Intelligence, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Architecture and IT Infrastructure.

Welcome, Eli Alston

Eli Alston is the Director of Trail Techworks & Technology at Trail Appliances Ltd. Experienced and passionate Director of Technology (Software, IT, eCommerce). Proven track-record in technological transformation, organizational change management, and team building. Diverse background including both entrepreneurial and executive experiences in software and retail industries. Connect on LinkedIn

Welcome, Arman Kamran

Arman Kamran is the CTO at Prima Recon Machine Intelligence. Executive Leader, Server and Polymath with extended expertise and background in leading teams in combining Technology, Business and Process in optimization of Customer Centric Delivery Pipelines in a variety of Industries. A creative leader known for building high-performing global teams delivering exceptional results. My teams …

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Welcome, Kevin Schieck

Kevin Schieck is the Information Technology Manager at Crawford Packaging. A family man, volunteer firefighter and deeply committed to both and my community. I love and excel at taking on new challenges and in addition to my community and family involvement have always loved and had a passion for IT. I am a driven individual …

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If they can hack the Pentagon, …?

By Ron Murch, I.S.P., ITCP – Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. On December 13, FireEye published a report about how it had detected cyberattack activity at multiple entities worldwide. They traced the attack to a vulnerability in the digitally-signed component of the Orion software framework made by SolarWinds Corporation. They reported the attack …

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