Strategic advisory · Board governance · Digital sovereignty · Toronto · Canada and Latin America
Strategic advisory · Board governance · Digital sovereignty · Toronto · Canada and Latin America
My grandfather was a Federal Labour Officer during the Depression, working on behalf of people who had nothing. My father taught himself electricity and built a trades business from scratch, and died at 38 in a workplace accident when I was eight. My mother went back to teaching on $6,000 a year and raised two sons on that, and her own considerable strength.
That formation from people who built things with their hands and their will and asked only for a fair chance, is what I carry into every boardroom and advisory engagement.
I have been called an Iconoclast since I was 39, in a private note from a mentor who cited Gwynne Dyer and closed with: "The future is yours, live it."
I had been trying to live that since I was 15.
Forty years in enterprise technology. Four decades building, advising, and challenging the path most organizations are on.
That is what Move Add Change is.
Canada's digital infrastructure gap is a sovereignty failure.
The communities built on railways and rivers are being left behind by the digital economy. Bridging that gap requires dual-use thinking: the same infrastructure that connects remote communities can strengthen national security. Canada has the assets. It hasn't fully recognized what it possesses.
Indigenous reconciliation and digital inclusion are the same conversation.
My family's relationship with Dokis First Nation on the Upper French River predates my professional work by half a century. The professional work followed. Ontario Northland was Canada's first telco to become an Internet Service Provider. I helped bring the World Wide Web to Moosonee, Moose Factory, and Temagami before internet service was available in North York. That is Development Road work: connecting the communities railways and rivers built to the digital economy they were being asked to wait for. That childhood relationship with Dokis is why this work was never abstract for me. The early career at Ontario Northland is why I know it can be done.
Good governance of technology requires understanding it, not just approving it.
Most boards govern technology from a distance. The boards I sit on and help build govern it from the inside. That is the difference between oversight and foresight.
Strategic Advisory
Working alongside CEOs and executive teams navigating moments where the standard playbook doesn't fit. AI adoption that has to actually work. Digital strategy that accounts for sovereignty, not just efficiency. Market entry into geographies where relationships matter more than decks. I've been in those rooms for 40 years.
Board Governance & Formation
Building boards that can govern what the company actually does — which increasingly means governing technology, AI, and digital risk, not just financials and compliance. Governance framework design, committee structure, director recruitment, and capital markets readiness.
Digital Transformation & AI Adoption
Practical roadmaps, not theoretical frameworks. The question I always ask first: what has to be true for this to actually work, with your people, in your operating reality? The answer is almost never what the consultants' deck says.
Ontario Centre of Innovation — Board Member
Governing one of Ontario's leading innovation agencies: technology commercialization, SME growth, and industry-academic collaboration. AI Steering Committee. Accountable to Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. Since February 2024.
Sierra Sun Group — Strategic Advisor & Incoming Director
Digital transformation and AI adoption strategy, TSX capital market readiness, board formation, and Indigenous community engagement. Operations based in Lima, Peru. Since February 2026.
Move Add Change Programmes
Three active civic programmes operating alongside the advisory practice:
- Digital Rangers — Dual-use broadband infrastructure aligned with NORAD modernization, empowering Canada's Rangers in remote and Indigenous communities
- Dual Use — Repurposing Cold War defence infrastructure for Canada's digital sovereignty, with the North Bay underground facility at the centre
- Indigenous Digital Inclusion — Connectivity for Indigenous communities as a foundation for economic participation, self-determination, and reconciliation
Six hundred feet beneath the Canadian Shield in North Bay, Ontario sits a 150,000 square foot hyper-protected facility — originally built for NORAD, partially decommissioned, and waiting. The modern equivalent of the trans-Canada railway runs on data pipelines, sovereign cloud, and secure edge computing. The alignment between Canada's broadband ambitions, its national security modernization commitments, and the communities that built this country is not coincidental. It is structural.