Vision, integrity, and experience are qualities that each board member brings to our group.
Their unwavering commitment to excellence and unsurpassed client satisfaction drives the entire Genesis team to achieve extraordinary results.
Mr. Black is a venture capitalist with 16 years of experience in senior roles with Helix Investments (Canada) Inc., RBC Capital Partners Inc. and The Walsingham Fund. Mr. Black joined Helix Investments in 1991 and focused on acquiring significant equity interests in emerging private companies. Over the course of the next seven years, Mr. Black led investments in companies including: Open Text Corporation, Architel Systems Inc., LogicVision Inc., CRS Robotics Corporation and Syndesis Limited. In 2001, Mr. Black joined RBC Capital Partners to lead its technology investments team. In 2004, Mr. Black founded The Walsingham Fund, which provides expansion and growth capital to companies. The Walsingham Fund currently has six portfolio investments. Mr. Black graduated on the Dean’s List with an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Mr. Mifsud joined the Company in October of 2001, and initiated the creation and innovation of the Genesis Solution, and subsequently founded its technology and innovation division in 2003. Mr. Mifsud has been instrumental in developing the companies' technologies, establishing it's operations, expanding and growing the business, as well as identifying and attracting it's leadership team. Prior to Genesis, Mr. Mifsud's entire career has been focused in the high growth, enterprise software business and he has held various executive positions including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure at Rand, the company grew from a $30 million private company to a $300 million public company over a 5 year period with 70 offices worldwide. Similarly at Pivotal the company grew to $95.0 million in revenue providing software solutions in 35 countries globally and was selected by Deloitte and Touche as the one of the top ten fastest growing technology companies in North America in 1999. Mr. Mifsud is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto
Mr. Armstrong was born in Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia where he received his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and at Sydney University where he received his LLB. He emigrated to Canada in 1987 and completed further legal studies at Queen’s University and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1993. After his call to the Bar, Mr. Armstrong worked in private practice primarily in the areas of corporate law and taxation. Since 1997, Mr. Armstrong has worked for Jetport Inc. as the company's Corporate Counsel and its Vice President since 2001. Jetport is owned by Ron Joyce, the co-founder of Tim Hortons, and is a private company with significant real estate, aviation and other private and public investment interests.
Mr. Gardner has over 20 years of executive management experience with a number of large public corporations, having served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sysco Food Services of Toronto, and President of Lumsden Brothers Ltd., a subsidiary of Sobeys Inc. From June 2006 to August 2008, Mr. Gardner served as the Executive Chairman of Genesis Worldwide, a company that develops and licenses structural building technology using light gauge steel aimed at the residential, commercial and industrial markets worldwide. Mr. Gardner directed the successful Initial Public Offering of this young company on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. During his career, Mr. Gardner has led organizations with sales of over $800 million annually and has achieved annual double-digit sales growth. Mr. Gardner brings to the organizations specific expertise in supply chain management, as well as managing franchised operations. Mr. Gardner is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Fellowship from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Newfoundland. He also has a Masters of Business Administration from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Mr. Phipps has over 35 years experience in land and planning matters, and housing and land development in various geographic markets including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and Spain. He has worked in senior management positions at Taylor Woodrow, Alfred McAlpine Homes and the Wates Group and currently is the managing director of Whiteacre Ltd., a private company which focuses on land development, housing and also provides consulting services.
Mr. Steedman has had experience in a variety of industrial companies including printing, packaging, hospital supplies, water purification, computer product, networking software and life science. A financial executive by training, Mr. Steedman is a graduate of McMaster University and has a masters degree in Business from York University. He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Mr. Steedman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Agile Systems Inc., a company involved in the design, development and manufacturing of advanced motion control technology. He has held a number of senior operating roles including COO of a rigid plastics and metals group, President of a business forms company, President of a public water purification organization and CEO of CRS Robotics Corporation, a public robotic instrumentation company. His key competence is in strategically realigning companies to increase shareholder value by raising investment capital, introducing new products, restructuring the organization and introducing new operating systems.
