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Leadership Team

Vijay Dube, President and CEO

Vijay has over 30 years of experience in mobile wireless, semiconductors, multi-media and consumer electronics. Vijay was formerly COO at Wavesat, a 4G Broadband Wireless company. He also served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Atsana, a semiconductor company developing video and imaging chipsets for mobile handsets. Vijay co-founded Dipix Technologies, which was subsequently acquired by Dalsa-Coreco. He has been recently advising startup technology companies as part of his role with NRC-IRAP. Vijay holds a B.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Rick Shorkey, Chief Financial Officer

Rick is a Chartered Accountant with more than 25 years of industry background filling senior financial and general management roles. He has broad experience in finance and management from private to public and small to large companies; software to semiconductors. In the last 10 years he has held CFO positions with several start-ups including: Bitflash Inc. (SVG software) where he played a key role in re-organizing and re-financing the company and its sale to a public entity; ATMOS Corporation (semiconductor embedded memory IP) where he played a key role in various financings and the sale of the company to a U.S. based public corporation; GMSI Inc. (formerly Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc.) which was a world leader in mobile data communications for the transportation industry.

Stephen Yee, VP Worldwide Sales

Stephen has more than twenty years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industries and over fifteen years of sales experience. He most recently served as Vice President of International Sales at Numerical Technologies, which was subsequently acquired by Synopsys. Prior to that, Stephen was a charter member of the executive team and Vice President of International Sales with Cadabra Design Automation, which later merged with Numerical. Stephen also worked at LSI Logic over an eight year period, where he held key management positions in sales, strategic marketing, and engineering. He holds a B. Eng degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University.

Mike Borza, CTO

Mike is responsible for technology strategy, and has over 20 years of experience with high technology companies. He has been an active contributor to the Security Task Group of IEEE 802.1 and was an editor of the 802.1AR Secure Device Identifier standard. Prior to founding Elliptic, he was a founder and CTO of network security appliances company Startle Networks. At Chrysalis-ITS (now Safenet), he worked with customers of the Luna series of network security processors as Director of Applications Engineering. Earlier in his career, he was involved in biometric identity management systems design, safety-critical systems engineering, and optoelectronics design and manufacturing. Mike was a founding director of the business networking forum The Ottawa Network.

Patrick Offers, VP of Engineering

Patrick Offers has many years of experience as an Engineering Manager in the technology and semiconductor fields. He is results-oriented, and has built and led high-performing engineering teams composed of staff with diverse backgrounds, in very small and very large companies, in different application areas, including from the ground up. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, and is a founder and VP of Engineering at Elliptic Technologies Inc.