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Elliptic has built a board of directors with industry heavy hitters that will help guide the company to its ultimate success.

Claude Haw
Claude is a professional engineer and has more than 30 years history in a variety of technical, general management and venture investing roles in the high technology sector. He has a wealth of experience in building successful technology companies in Canada from start-up to acquisition and IPO. Claude is Managing Partner at Venture Coaches, a local venture firm responsible for Severn Bridge Investments, Venture Coaches Fund, and Canadian Cleantech Fund. Prior to Venture Coaches, he held a number of executive positions at Newbridge, including Vice-President of and General Manager of the Newbridge ATMnet Business Unit. Claude grew the unit from inception to a $200-million-per-annum business. Before joining Newbridge, he held senior management positions at Mitel Corporation and Leigh Instruments. Claude holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Lakehead University.
Gord Harling
Gord comes from an engineering and operations background at Mitel Semiconductor (now Zarlink) in Product engineering and then as Director of IC Process R&D. He was design team leader at NovAtel on the first single chip digital section for a cellular radio and Technology Manager for Dalsa CCD Cameras and Sensors. He founded Goal Semiconductor, a mixed signal design services company, and ran it for 8 years eventually selling it to Mosel-Vitelic and the Socit Gnrale du Financement. Goal now manufactures and sells a line of integrated circuits for sensor signal conditioning. Gord's most recent role was as Senior VP of Engineering and Operations at ATMOS, a memory SIP company acquired by MoSys.
Richard White, President and CEO
Richard has more than 27 years of experience in technology companies. Richard was a former CEO of Solidum and Accelerix and acted as a contract CEO to Intelligent Photonics Control and Spectalis. He has provided consultant services to a number of technology companies including Seaway Networks, Wavesat and Ad Opt. Richard started his career as a semiconductor engineer during the early days of Mitel. He has also worked at NovAtel Communications, Extreme Packet Devices and Enhance Systems in a variety of senior management roles. He holds a B. Eng Electrical Engineering from Carleton and an Executive MBA (PMD60) from Harvard.
Mike Borza, CTO
Mike is responsible for stategic direction at Elliptic. He is an active contributor to the Security Task Group of IEEE 802.1 and is Editor of the 802.1AR Secure Device Identifier standard. Mike's career spans more than eighteen years in high technology. Prior to co-founding Elliptic, Mike was a founder and CTO of Startle Networks, a manufacturer of Internet security appliances for SSL VPN and e-commerce applications. At Chrysalis-ITS (now Safenet), Mike worked with customers of the Luna series of network security processors as Director of IC Applications Engineering. In 1995, Mike co-founded American Biometrics, acquired in 2001 by ActivCard. Mike's early career was in the Toronto area, where he was in safety-critical systems engineering at Alcatel Canada, and held a variety of design and management positions at optoelectronics manufacturer Antel Optronics. In addition to his roles at Elliptic, Mike is a founding director of business networking forum The Ottawa Network.
Larry Lam
Larry joined BDC, Technology Seed Investments in April 2003. Larry has over 18 years of experience in the telecommunications, video and semiconductor industries in research and development, marketing and product management. Prior to joining BDC, Larry was Director of Marketing at Intelligent Photonics Control. He has held senior positions in various early stage companies including SiCon Video, Symagery Microsystems and Semiconductor Insights. Larry Lam holds a MBA from Queens University and a Bachelor in Applied Sciences (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Waterloo.