The Accelerator Centre's Board of Directors brings together key stakeholders within the Waterloo technology community and includes representatives from regional and provincial government, local academic institutions, innovation partners and members of the surrounding business community.

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  Tom Beynon

  Partner, McCarter, Grespan, Beynon, Weir LLP

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  Max Blouw

  President and Vice-Chancellor,
  Wilfrid Laurier University

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  Tim Jackson

  CEO, Accelerator Centre;
  CEO, Accelerator for Commercialization Excellence (ACE); Associate Vice President of Commercialization, University of Waterloo

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  George Dixon

  Vice President, Research,
  University of Waterloo

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  Rob Horne

  Commissioner of Planning, Housing
  and Community Services,
  Region of Waterloo

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  David Johnston

  President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Waterloo

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  John Jung

  CEO, Canada's Technology Triangle, Inc.

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  Iain Klugman

  President and CEO, Communitech

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  Ian McPhee

  Chair, Accelerator Centre; former President and Co-Founder, WatCom; former VP/GM Sybase

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  David Petras

  Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

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  Gary Pooley

  CFO, Accelerator Centre;
  Retired Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

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  Sharon Rudy

  Principal and ENPP Practice Leader, Spencer Stuart

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  Terry Stepien

  President, Sybase iAnywhere Canada

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  Michael Stork

  Investor & Entrepreneur

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  Gerry Sullivan

  President and CEO, Priiva and Energent

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  Alastair Summerlee

  President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Guelph

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  John Tibbits

  President and CEO, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

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  Bill Mantel

  Director, Commercialization Branch, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Province of Ontario

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  Tom Corr

  President and CEO,
  Ontario Centres of Excellence