Dan Bader
(Retired) Corporate Chief Information Officer, Government of Alberta

Mr Dan Bader was appointed Corporate Chief Information Officer (Corporate CIO) for the Government of Alberta on October 6, 2003. The Office of the Corporate CIO provides leadership for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for the Alberta Government and focuses on transforming the delivery of government programs and services through innovative and cost effective uses of ICT.

Dan Bader joined the Alberta Government in 1979 and has served in a variety of positions, including Deputy Minister of Alberta Innovation and Science, Deputy Minister of Alberta Municipal Affairs, Deputy Minister of Strategic Information Technology Initiatives and Government of Alberta Chief Information Officer, and Deputy Minister of Public Works, Supply and Services. In addition, he has held the position of Assistant Deputy Minister for three different divisions within Alberta Public Works, Supply and Services: Property Management, Reservoir Development and Technical Resources and Property Development.

A professional engineer, Dan received his B.Sc. Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Applied Science Degree in Construction Management from the University of Waterloo.

Dan resides in Edmonton with his wife and two daughters.

Dr Murray S. Campbell
Manager, Intelligent Information Analysis Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Murray S. Campbell is a research scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and one of the original members of the Deep Blue computer chess group. He was the recipient of an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on the Deep Blue project. Deep Blue and its predecessors have won many awards and distinctions: the first computer to defeat a grandmaster in tournament play, the Fredkin Prize for the first grandmaster-level chess computer, the OMNI Challenge Prize, and first computer to defeat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a regulation game. The programs developed by Campbell and his colleagues have also won numerous ACM International and World Computer Chess championships.

Campbell received his doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University and his masters from the University of Alberta. He has been involved in computer chess research for many years and is himself an expert chess player and the former chess champion of Alberta. He has coauthored a number of papers on computer chess and his other interests include data-mining and parallel-search algorithms.

Dr Phil Gougeon
Assistant Deputy Minister, Advanced Education and Technology, Government of Alberta
(Past Member)

Dr Bob Fessenden
CEO, Alberta Science and Research Authority (ASRA)
(Past Member)

Bob Fessenden was appointed Deputy Minister of Alberta Innovation and Science on December 1, 2004, and became CEO of the Alberta Science and Research Authority effective February 23, 2005. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and Deputy Minister of Alberta Economic Development. He also served as President of ASRA from 1995 to 1999, and has held various positions with the Alberta Research Council. He completed his BSc in Forestry at the University of Toronto, his MSc in Microbiology at the University of Guelph, and his PhD in Microbiology at McGill University.



Dr Peter C. Flynn
Poole Chair in Management for Engineers, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta

Dr Flynn holds the Poole Chair in Management for Engineers at the University of Alberta, an endowed position for an academic with extensive experience in industrial management. Prior to joining the University in 1999 he served as Project Manager and Senior Process Engineer for Colt Engineering Corporation in Edmonton. As well as consulting on emerging high-tech companies in data transmission, his experience ranges from executive marketing to resource management to corporate development. He received his BSc degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, M Eng in chemical engineering from University of California, and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Alberta. He served on the Boards of Epcor and the Chemical Insititue of Canada, and currently is a Director of the Alberta Balancing Pool; the Fort Edmonton Historical Foundation, and the Capital Region Housing Corporation.

Dr Randy Goebel
President and CEO, iCORE
(Observer)

Randy is currently President and CEO of iCORE, Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence, professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, and principle investigator in the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning. He received the BSc (Computer Science), MSc (Computing Science), and PhD (Computer Science) from the Universities of Regina, Alberta, and British Columbia, respectively. Randy has experience working on research projects in crew scheduling, pipeline scheduling, and steel mill scheduling, as well as scheduling and optimization projects for the energy industry in Alberta. His current research includes work on systems biology, machine learning, and visualization.

Randy has held appointments at the University of Waterloo, University of Tokyo, Multimedia University (Malaysia), and has had research collaborations with DFKI (German Centre for AI Research), NICTA (National ICT Australia), RWC (Real World Computing project, Japan), ICOT (Institute for New Generation Computing, Japan), NII (National Informatics Institute, Tokyo), and is actively involved in academic and industrial collaborative research projects in Canada, Australia, Europe, China and Malaysia.

Dr Peter Hackett
President, Alberta Ingenuity

Peter Hackett pursued his post-secondary studies at the University of Southampton, England, where he obtained his BSc in 1969 and a PhD in 1972 in physical chemistry. He joined the Division of Chemistry of the National Research Council as a post-doctorate fellow in 1972, and held progressively more responsible positions. In January 1998, Dr Hackett became Vice President of Research at the National Research Council, and in the fall of 2004, left the NRC to take up the position of President of Alberta Ingenuity. Dr Hackett is a world leader in applications of high-resolution laser photoelectron spectroscopy to inorganic chemistry. He has been recognized by the Noranda Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry and by the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, a Trustee of the Steacie Foundation, an Advisory Editor of Chemical Physics Letters, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Research on Chemical Intermediates. He is an Adjunct Professor in Chemistry at the University of Toronto and at the University of Saskatchewan.

Mary E. Hofstetter
President & CEO, The Banff Centre

Mary Hofstetter was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario. She holds a BA (Honours) in English and Theatre Arts from the University of Guelph, and an MA in English from the University of Western Ontario. She taught in England and Switzerland before returning to Canada where she held various positions at Ontario colleges, including founding Vice President, Academic of Mohawk College. In 1988, Ms Hofstetter was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Sheridan College. In 1996, she resigned from Sheridan to assume the position of General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the Stratford Festival. She resigned from the Festival in late 1998 to conduct consulting work. She assumed the position of Executive Vice-president and Chief Operating Officer of The Banff Centre in July 1999 and was appointed President and CEO in May 2001. She has served on a number of public and private sector boards including AT&T; Canada, board chair of the Canadian Bureau for International Education, Burlington Cultural Centre, K-W Art Gallery, Gallery/Stratford, Industry/Education Councils, Chair of the Ontario College Presidents and of the Canadian College Presidents Network. She has also served on many provincial government committees, most recently as a member of the Ontario Jobs and Investment Board.

Dr Gary Kachanoski
Vice President (Research) at the University of Alberta

Dr Kachanoski is a professor in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta. From 1996-2001 he was Dean, College of Graduate Studies and Research, and Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He was also appointed Dean, Virtual College of Biotechnology, a university-wide initiative to coordinate teaching and research in the social, ethical, legal, commercial, and science issues related to biotechnology. From 1985 to 1996 he was at the University of Guelph, finishing his appointment there as Chair, Department of Land Resource Science, and Director of Research (Environment and Natural Resources) in the Vice-President (Research) Office. At Guelph he had significant involvement in the planning, coordination, and transfer of research and technology to industry, government, user groups, and the general public. He received his BSc (Honours Biology 1976) and MSc (Soil Science 1980) from the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD (Soil Physics 1984) from the University of California, Davis. He continues to have a strong research program with main interests in the physics of water and chemical transport through soil, and has received many awards from peer and professional organizations for his distinguished contributions.

Robert Lai
Branch Head, ICT Industries Branch, Advanced Education and Technology,
Government of Alberta

Robert has over 25 years experience in the Information & Communications Technology sector. He is currently the Executive Director of the ICT Institute, with the department of Alberta Advanced Education & Technology. Robert was a former executive with Bell West, and was instrumental in the development of the SuperNet initiative in Alberta. During his extensive professional career, Robert has held senior positions with TELUS, EDS and Enabil Solutions.

Dr Seamus O'Shea
Chair, iCORE Board of Directors
Vice-president (Academic) and Provost, University of Lethbridge

Dr Seamus Francis O'Shea is a Professor of Chemistry, Vice-president (Academic), and Provost at the University of Lethbridge. From 1994 to 1998, while responsible for information technology at the University of Lethbridge, Dr O'Shea supervised a complete renovation of the conceptual basis for service at the university and implemented sweeping changes to delivery systems. Under Dr O'Shea's guidance, the IT system was converted from one focusing entirely on administrative needs and issues to one where academic needs and issues took priority, where networking became the key technology, and where a strong commitment to open systems architecture and industry standards underpinned the delivery of state-of-the-art services to everyone on campus. As the sole vice-president of the University of Lethbridge from 1994 to 1999, Dr O'Shea has had the opportunity to represent the university to a variety of audiences at the local, provincial, national, and international levels. Through various formal and informal contacts, Dr O'Shea has worked to strengthen the post-secondary education system as a whole and to enhance the university's position in it.

Dr Dennis Salahub
Vice President (Research), University of Calgary

Dr Salahub assumed the the position of Vice-President (Research) at the University of Calgary on July 1, 2002, after serving as the Director General of the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa since from 1999. Prior to this he was a Professor of Chemistry at the Université de Montreal from 1976 to 1999, holding a McConnell Chair from 1990. A native of Alberta, Dr Salahub has been interested in theoretical and computational chemistry since his undergraduate days in Edmonton and his doctorate at the Université de Montreal. He has published some 250 research papers, four edited books and has delivered more than 300 invited lectures on the national and international scenes. Dr Salahub has served the science and innovation communities on a broad front. He was the Program Leader of the Centers of Excellence in Molecular and Interfacial Dynamics (CEMAID) from 1991 to 1994 and a founding member of the Centre de Recherche en Calcul Appliqué (CERCA) in 1991. He has served on NSERC's Grant Selection Committee and twice on the Reallocation Steering Committee for Chemistry (1997, 2001, Chair). He was the lead applicant for an $18M Canada Foundation for Innovation grant that brought high-performance computing to Quebec in 1998 and was an early proponent of the c3.ca organization which is fostering high-performance computing and networking in Canada. He has been a consultant for industry and the Steacie Institute is currently fostering several incubation and spin-off companies. He has contributed to NRC's vision for nanotechnology in Canada and to the founding of the new $120M National Institute for Nanotechnology in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1998 he was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

J.R. (Rolf) Sherlock
Vice Chair, iCORE Board of Directors
Senior Partner, BVIS Consulting Services

Rolf has been involved in the information technology sector for more than 35 years. He focuses on providing an executive perspective towards making sound business, organizational and technology choices. Rolf worked for IBM Canada for 33 years in management and leadership roles. He was the senior Solutions Executive with IBM Global Services in Western Canada when he left IBM to join PanCanadian Energy (a predecessor to EnCana) as Manager of Information Services Architecture. In this role he was responsible for the evolution of enterprise information services and technologies for the corporation. He retired from Encana in 2002 and subsequently formed BVIS Consulting Services (Business Value from Information Technology). BVIS provides consultative services to organizations looking for ways to improve the impact of their existing, planned and future information technology investments. Rolf received his bachelor degree in commerce from the University of Calgary and has taught undergraduate and graduate level computing science courses. He has received many special rewards from IBM and client organizations for technical and professional leadership.