Executive Team and Innovation Experts
SpringBoard West Innovations Inc. has a highly skilled team of business and innovation specialists. We are committed to assisting you to achieve the vision you have for your new venture. Together our team has expertise in technology commercialization, licensing, investments and due diligence, start-up companies, and multi-national corporations. We have worked at the executive level in marketing, sales, operations, and finance. Collectively we have direct experience in the bio-tech, industrial manufacturing, environmental and software industries.
Susan J. Gorges
Chief Executive Officer
Susan Gorges has extensive experience in the technology innovation sector. She worked in technology commercialization focusing on innovations out of the Los Alamos National Laboratory prior to taking a position as VP and general manager with a research and advisory company providing services to IT executives in the consumer products, life sciences, manufacturing and retail sectors.
She has worked as an executive with two different start-up companies: one in manufacturing and the other in software. Both companies grew to become global operations with more than $150 million in annual revenue. She has been the Board Chair of the Santa Fe Business Incubator as well as the Board Chair of the Coronado Ventures Forum. She has been a member of the Advisory Board for Mesa Ventures (a venture capital firm), the American Production and Inventory Control Society and an advisor to the Los Alamos Office of Commercialization.
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Lynda Dudley
Director of Operations
Lynda Dudley ran her own business for a number of years. She brings to SBWI and our clients her business skills in bookkeeping, accounting, office management, human resources, benefits administration and customer service.
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Lisette J.C. Mascarenhas
Senior Innovation Officer
Lisette Mascarenhas has over twenty years of combined training and experience in applied research and business development gained from working with clinical and life sciences researchers, small and emerging companies and large and global life sciences companies. In some of her previous positions she has managed large scale, cutting edge disease diagnostics projects, and worked with, and managed investments in health and life sciences start up and expanding companies. Her goal is to work with and provide comprehensive support to innovators and entrepreneurs to fast-track their life sciences and biomedical technology-based ideas to market. Lisette is based in our Saskatoon office.
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Joe Toth
Senior Innovation Officer
Joe Toth is an innovative business professional with demonstrated executive level leadership and technical expertise. He thrives on identifying new business opportunities and highly technical, deadline driven, and challenging settings requiring the pairing of innovation, planning, and organization.
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Jim George
Senior Innovation Officer
As a serial entrepreneur, Jim George knows and understands completely the challenges and issues faced by founding and early stage CEO's - balancing the need to conserve cash and yet quickly get to market with the product offering typically in an under-capitalized environment and successfully close on early stage funding is no easy feat. Over his 20+ year career, Jim has successfully managed this effort in his two previous startup technology companies. Along the way, he has become an experienced technology innovator and product commercialization practitioner - more particularly in the fields of wireless applications, geomatics and global positioning systems (GPS). Jim is a professional engineer and a graduate of Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary. Jim also has one patent to his name and has co-authored several other patents all related to wireless location technology and services. He is based in SpringBoard's Saskatoon office.
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Divyesh Patel
Innovation Officer
Divyesh Patel provides the team with expertise in many aspects of commercialization of new technologies. He combines a research background in molecular biology with experience with technology transfer, early stage investment, and a promising start-up technology company.
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Leah Nelson-Guay
Senior Innovation Officer
Leah Nelson Guay has been working with entrepreneurs, management teams and their businesses for more than 10 years - ranging from owner-operated start-ups to established billion dollar corporations. Her background in both science and business provide the basis for her toolkit in working with a wide range of technologies, innovators and other stakeholders to succeed in the marketplace.
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Avi Shachar
Director, Competitive Intelligence
A former Lieutenant Colonel with the Israeli intelligence, Avi is a recognized expert on intelligence, CI, early warning systems, terrorism and securities fraud. Avi spent 16 years in senior roles with the Israeli Military Intelligence including head of Early Warning Section (Northern Command) and head of Research, Analysis and Early Warning Branch. In 2001, Avi was one of the founding members and Senior Intelligence Analyst of the Joint Securities Intelligence Unit at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), a unit that was created jointly with the RCMP to combat organized criminal activities in North American capital markets. In 2004, Avi founded Sprylogics International Inc., a developer of intelligence early warning and investigative software. Avi is a graduate of the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington, DC.
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Riley Nadoroznick
Market Research Analyst
Riley Nadoroznick has a degree in Economics and Society with a minor in English from University of Regina. He provides research and analysis on potential markets for new innovations.
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Bo Jiang
Market Research Analyst
Bo brings a mixture of experience in innovation research, municipal government, and communications. She has an agricultural economics degree with a minor in Biotechnology Management from the University of Saskatchewan. She provides research and analysis on potential markets for new innovations.
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Reade Holtslander
Market Research
Reade Holtslander is a student at the University of Regina, he is majoring in both Economics and Business Administration. He provides Market Research to help businesses prosper.
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Linda Benson
Administrative Accounting Assistant
Linda Benson contributes to the efficient day-to-day operations of SBWI by providing clerical and administrative support.
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Adele Flavel
Business Receptionist
Adele Flavel provides office support by smoothly and efficiently running the front desk and greeting all visitors in a friendly and courteous manner.
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Jenn Walker
Administration Assistant
Jenn Walker graduated from the University of Regina with a Certificate in Public Relations. She assists SBWI Ceo with adminstration duties providing marketing and sales experience.
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Jordan Toppings
Co-op Student
Jordan Toppings has his degree in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from University of Regina. This is Jordan's second work term but his first with Springboard West Innovations. He is working as a market researcher in which he does research to help new entrepreneurs.
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