Who We Are
 We are veterans of the telecommunications and computing industries
who are the experts in providing Virtual Presence solutions based on the H.323
standard.
Our company, Broadband Collaborative Solutions, is privately held and is backed by
significant Canadian and U.S venture capital interests.
Our Board of Directors and advisors are luminaries in the financial, investment and
telecommunications industries.
Our team has extensive telecommunications, information technology and internet skills.
Our understanding of the wide area network (WAN), the local area network (LAN), operating
systems and applications software enables us to implement end-to-end Virtual Presence
solutions.
The senior management team includes the following executives:
Pat Montani
Chairman |
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Pat has founded, financed and evolved organizations
by taking advantage of technological change for over 25 years. Pat gained tremendous
insight and experience in exploiting emerging marketplaces through his founding of
PBA Analyzing, TSB International (now Telco Research) and The Bridges Initiative.
He has played an instrumental role in the development of several other companies,
such as Net Compliance, Net Convergence and eDispatch.
Pat has brought creative strategies, vision, knowledge and experience which have
proven invaluable to his companies' successes.
Phone: +1 (604) 932-0939
Email: pmontani@broadband-collaborative.com |
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Monty Richardson
President and CEO |
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Monty has over 30 years of experience in the
IT and telecommunications industry. His career commenced with technical and sales
positions and progressed through senior executive and CEO positions. He has also
been engaged as an entrepreneur and a strategic consultant.
His experience includes providing strategic consulting to bandwidth suppliers and
investors, running AT&T Canada's wholesale and international divisions, being
a founder of a wireless company, rescuing and taking public an e-business software
company and leading a subsidiary of a major hardware manufacturer.
He has broad knowledge of the hardware, software and applications industries and
understands how combining their products benefits the bandwidth supplier and the
end user alike.
Monty's prime attribute is building winning, customer focused teams.
Phone: +1 (905) 762-9515
Email: mrichardson@broadband-collaborative.com |
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Rob Price
Chief Technology Officer |
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Rob Price is an engineer with over 25 years
of networking experience. He has held staff engineering positions, been a Gartner
Group consultant and for several years, before engaging in the founding of BCS, run
his own consulting engineering firm.
Rob's core competencies include the key components of network architecture and project
implementation. These include LAN/WAN multi-protocol network design, LAN/WAN multi-protocol
network architecture, strategic network technology planning, project management,
Information technology assessment and vendor selection, network security Standards
and technologies.
Rob has acted as senior network architect for wireline, wireless and cable networks
operators including Clearnet, Rogers Cable and Unitel (now AT&T Canada) and has
done the same for major users, such as the Bank of Nova Scotia and Magna. Rob's experience
with different technologies, platforms, protocols and architectures and their integration
enable him to implement solutions and anticipate network and service evolution.
Phone: +1 (905) 762-9517
Email: rprice@broadband-collaborative.com |
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Mike Leshyk
Vice President - Sales |
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Mike is an engineer with over twenty years of
experience in the telecommunications industry.
Prior to joining BCS he was Vice President Business Development for a mid-sized telecommunications
firm where he was responsible for new product development and mergers and acquisitions.
Previously Mike held the position of Sales Vice President North American Carrier
Services for AT&T Canada.
Mike has held marketing, sales, international carrier relations and engineering positions
with AT&T Canada, and Bell Canada. He has also owned and operated his own successful
telecommunications consulting practice.
In the mid 1980's while at CNCP Telecommunications (now AT&T Canada), Mike worked
in a team of five engineers that built a state of the art coast to coast digital
switched voice network in Canada from the ground up.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Waterloo and is a registered professional engineer. His greatest strength
is to marry economics, innovation and technology in a success equation for customers.
Phone: +1 (905) 762-9516
Toll Free: +1 (800) 474-8110
Mobile: +1 (416) 402-7291
Email: mleshyk@broadband-collaborative.com |
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