The Xtreme Mobility Advisory Board
Xtreme Mobility's management team strength is further supplemented by an advisory board with deep product and business-level academic and professional experience:
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Vish Visweswaran |
Vish is a financial services and payments industry professional with 19 years of multi-functional, multi-national business leadership experience. He is founder of a B2C transaction management company that has developed an unique interactive services gateway for the micro and small business markets. Previously, he headed up the Global Visa Business for Emergis Inc based out of Toronto. His expertise includes B2B/B2C/payment products and infrastructure including credit/debit cards, processing platforms, consulting services, ATM's, telephone banking and web based payment solutions. |
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Prof. Alfred Menezes |
Alfred Menezes is a professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, where he also serves as managing director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. His research interests are in cryptography and algorithmic number theory. He is co-author of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography and Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Alfred also worked as an independent consultant on projects involving protocol design, security analysis, standardization, patent strategy and litigation. |
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Erin Bennett |
Ms. Bennett has over twelve years of management experience in sales, strategic planning, product management and product development in the financial services industry. Ms. Bennett has an excellent understanding of both domestic and international payment systems. Ms. Bennett has been working for a major Canadian financial institution since 2001 and has held positions of Marketing Manager for Electronic Payment Solutions, Group Product Development Manager and most recently Director Remote Channels managing the bank.s off-premise ABM network. Ms. Bennett holds a M.B.A, B-Comm in Marketing and a B.A. |
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Prof. Danny Ho |
Danny Ho works as the Manager of Engineering Programs in Motorola Canada Limited. Prior to joining Motorola, he held management and senior technical positions at Nortel Networks Corporation and IBM Canada Limited. He is also appointed as an Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Western Ontario. Throughout his professional career, he has led programs in the areas of wireline, RF, and infrared development, desktop application deployment, reuse, and software development environment. His areas of special interest include software estimation, project management, object-oriented software development, and complexity analysis. Danny received his Honors Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Electrical Engineering, and Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario. He is currently a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). |
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Prof. J Michael Bennett |
Professor Bennett is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. Prior to semi-retirement, he was the Director of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, the University of Western Ontario. He developed the Software Engineering Program at UWO and led the program to CEAB certification. He also worked with UWO and Cisco authorities to build the CCNA router laboratory at UWO. Before leading the Department of Software Engineering, he was a professor at the Department of Computer Science. He also teaches at the University of Ottawa, the Institute for Government Informatics Professionals, Motorola University, and IMPAC University. His research areas include software engineering, software metrics, project management, computer communications, operating system, numerical analysis, etc. Throughout his academic career, he received over $2.34 million in research and industrial grants for over twenty projects. He has supervised over thirty graduate students and over forty undergraduate students, published many books, articles and scientific papers. He also served as a contributer on 12 refereed ISO standards steering committees. |
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Prof. S Keshav |
S. Keshav is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing at the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. One of Ensim Corporation's co-founders, he was previously the Chief Technology Officer at Ensim Corporation. Earlier in his career he was a researcher at Bell Labs and an Associate Professor at Cornell University. He is the author of a widely used graduate textbook on computer networking, has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, and holds 13 US patents. He has been awarded the Director's Gold Medal at IIT Delhi, the Sakrison Prize at UC Berkeley, and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Keshav received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. |
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Sanders Pabbies |
Sanders Pabbies is currently Director, Market Planning & Strategy at Virgin Mobile Canada and helped launch Virgin Mobile in Canada. Mr. Pabbies has over 12 years of finance, marketing and strategic consulting experience and over 5 years of expertise in the wireless industry. Prior to joining Virgin Mobile, Mr. Pabbies was a Management Consultant with Adventis, a boutique telecom strategy consultancy based in Boston and has worked with a wide array of clients in the US, Canada and Asia. Mr. Pabbies specialized in helping companies improve their profitability by developing innovative strategies and business models for telecom and related services. Mr. Pabbies is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accounts and holds an M.B.A. from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. |
