About Acceleware - Leadership - Management Team

Dr. Michal Okoniewski - Chief Scientist, Co-Founder & interm CEO

Chief Scientist since the company's inception, Michal is a Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Calgary. He is holding the Alvin Libin Ingenuity Chair in Bio-medical Engineering, and the Canada Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics. Michal is a renowned expert in applied computational electrodynamics. Michal's research group is also working on 3D imaging technology that can look into living cells and micro-machined devices that can provide dramatic improvement to RF devices, such as cellular phones. Dr. Okoniewski has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University, Gdansk.

Ryan Schneider - CTO & Co-Founder

Industry and academia have recognized Ryan Schneider for his innovative work in the acceleration of scientific computing applications. He has earned numerous elite national scholarships and awards, including the Engineering Internship Prize from the University of Calgary and the Alberta Science and Technology Leader of Tomorrow Award. Prior to establishing Acceleware, Schneider was co-founder and president of Vortex Computing Inc., a high-performance-computing (HPC) consulting company and value-added reseller. Ryan has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary.

Norman Tsui - CFO

Norman has 15 years of financial stewardship experience across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, resources, manufacturing, telecom, utilities and technology. He has extensive experience with the technical, governance and financing requirements of a growth-oriented technology business. Positions held include chief financial officer and vice president of Navigata Communications Inc., managing director of corporate finance & treasury for Vancouver Coastal Health, professional positions with KPMG's Consulting, Assurance and Corporate Finance practices, and management positions with an electronics design and manufacturing company and a group of TSX venture companies with operations in mining, oil and gas. Norman is a Chartered Accountant and has an M.Sc. in Engineering.

Robert Miller - VP, Marketing & Product Management

Rob has 20 years of technology business experience in founder, operations, marketing, product management and general manager roles and was most recently the vice president of marketing for the XMetaL division of Blast Radius that was acquired by Justsystems of Tokyo in 2006. Prior to Blast Radius, Mr. Miller was the general manager of Verity Canada and part of the Verity executive team. During his later years at Verity, he also assumed corporate marketing responsibilities for Verity Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California. Mr. Miller has held several other senior marketing and product management positions in high tech companies including FTP Software of Andover, Massachusetts. He initiated his business career as the third employee of Image Club, which was eventually acquired by Adobe Systems. Rob has a B.A. from the University of Victoria, British Columbia.