Leadership Team

Management Team

CFO of Ocumetics from 2011-2017; CEO since 2017.
Provides strategic leadership, leads business operations, develops business and financing plans, negotiates financing deals (including RTO transaction – Aug 2021).
37 years of business leadership experience (strategy, finance, human resources) in a variety of organizations including the service sector, mining, manufacturing, and academia, serving in roles as president/CEO, COO, CFO, and consultant.
Completed eight turnarounds in these roles and led and managed organizations varying in size from 300 employees to over 2,000 employees, with revenues ranging from $14 million to over $200 million.
Led a number of privately held companies in insurance, mining, medical devices, and biomedical industries, as a CEO, CFO, VP and board member.
Extensive experience in growing company revenues, while ensuring lean operating structures.
Skilled at seeing the big picture and its implications for the organization, defining strategy, and communicating the vision to all levels of the organization.

Founder of Ocumetics with a mission to empower people to see and better experience the world.
45 years of experience in clinical eye care and applied vision science helping thousands of patients.
Cofounded Complete Eye Care Optometry Clinic, one of Canada’s largest group practice of optometry.
Sole inventor of the Bionic Lens™ and related intellectual property platform.
Pioneer in the life enhancing field of medical optics and refractive technologies.
Founder of the Celebration of Sight Initiative, a not-for-profit organization commissioned to support three areas of critical need: reforestation/conservation, community services and consumer advocacy.
Founder of VENTURA Health Sciences Corporation in 2008 to develop state-of-the-art functional dietary supplements that slow the progression of degenerative eye conditions. Recent developments have demonstrated promise in stimulating and propagating intracellular repair.
Pioneered and successfully commercialized delivery systems for non-preserved liquid pharmaceuticals thereby promoting better healing without any complications from contact.
Served as the youngest Chairperson on record for the Board of Examiners in Optometry, British Columbia, Canada.

Director of the Stulting Research Center, Woolfson Eye Institute, Atlanta, GA.
Professor of Ophthalmology Emeritus, Emory University.
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology, the Moran Eye Institute, Salt Lake City, UT.
Former Co-Director of the Collaborative Corneal Transplantation Studies, a large, NIH-supported multi-center study of histocompatibility and corneal transplantation.
Former investigator in a physician-sponsored clinical investigation of LASIK that was
carried out before the first refractive laser was approved by the FDA in the United States.
Previously had a referral practice in cornea/external disease and performed routine and complex cataract surgery, as well as corneal transplantation.
Specialized in the management of keratoconus.
Principal Investigator for 5 different clinical trials for corneal cross-linking since 2008.
Member of the FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel for 10 years , and he completed a term as Chair of the Panel in 1998.
Past President of the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Hands-on executive with 25+ years of experience leading public and private companies through corporate restructurings, financings and growth.
Completed debt and equity financings for multiple companies of up to $70M.
Negotiated and closed the purchase or sale of over 40 businesses.
Cofounder and Director of Quantum Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (CPC that merged with Ocumetics).
Founder and CEO of Jump On Flyaways, an airplane sharing service. Led development of proprietary software, appeared on Dragon’s Den.
Former CFO of Enerjet, a charter airline. Led Enerjet from significant losses to multiple years of profitability.
Former CEO of Rare Method (RM), a TSX-V listed interactive marketing firm. Led RM from start-up to the 2nd fastest growing company in Alberta (2007) and top 100 fastest growing company in Canada (2008).
Former CFO of Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR), a national ski resort operator. Led RCR from financial difficulty to one of the best managed companies in Canada (National Post – 1997 and 1998).
Former contract or interim CFO for companies in multiple industries (psychedelics, medical devices, helicopter charters, software development, e-commerce, product development, publishing).

CEO, InterGen, a private ScaleUp fund that invests in pre-Series A companies led by extraordinary teams with proven solutions and big markets.
Founder, PoweredByDealPoint.io, a fintech solution that digitizes investor onboarding, investment execution and compliance for private capital markets activities for investment dealers, early-stage companies, angel and venture led financings and syndications.
Board member, National Angel Capital Association and the USA Angel Capital Association
Advisory board member, NRC-IRAP; Advisory board member, New Economy, Alberta Securities Commission.

Director, Bonanza Mining Corporation
Sessional Instructional Assistant with the Rotman School of Management
Consultant, Hans Management, a private company that formed and funded Hanstone Capital Corp., which later became Hanstone Gold Corporation, a gold and mineral exploration company in the Golden Triangle in British Columbia.
Master’s degree, Financial Risk Management, Rotman School of Management.

Independent businessman with years of diverse board, management, and legal international mining industry experience.
Extensive corporate governance, environmental, transactional, M&A, financing, contract, development, compliance and litigation experience with companies developing and operating numerous mines and conducting exploration programs internationally.
Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver School of Law
Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration from the University of Denver

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