Mr. McKinnon is an independent director for various technology and public sector organizations. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of TSX/Nasdaq-listed Certicom Corp from 2002 to 2007 and TSX-listed Promis Systems Corporation from 1995 to 2000. Between 1981 and 1994 he was with Digital Equipment Corporation in various sales and senior management positions in Canada and as Managing Director in Singapore. In 1998 he won the Ernst and Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ in recognition of his success at Promis Systems. Mr. McKinnon is currently board chair for privately owned Messagepoint and is on the Council of The College of Nurses of Ontario, and is a past director of Allstream, Constellation Software, SMART Technologies , Quarterhill, VendTek Systems, Promis Systems, and Certicom.