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Dr Tony Bailetti Tony Bailetti is the Director of Carleton's Technology Innovation Management Program and the Director of Ontario's Talent First Network. He founded Lead to Win in 2002 and was part of the faculty that delivered the original program. Professor Bailetti holds a tenured faculty appointment in both the Eric Sprott School of Business and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. His teaching and research interests are in commercialization of new technology. He was the Director of Carleton University's School of Business from 1981 to 1988 and worked at Bell-Northern Research (today a part of Nortel) from 1988 to 1992. Professor Bailetti has published in engineering management journals such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, and R&D Management. He won a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States. In 1996 he won a Carleton University Teaching Award and in 2007 a Carleton University Leadership Breakthrough Award. David Hudson David V. Hudson is the Director of the Lead to Win program and is with Ontario's Talent First Network. He will join the doctoral program at Carleton University's Eric Sprott School of Business in September 2009. Until December 2008, Mr. Hudson was Nortel's Vice President for Advanced Research and Technology Labs. Since 1988, he held increasingly responsible management positions in Nortel both in engineering and product line management. Mr. Hudson worked in all of Nortel Networks' product lines, including enterprise, mobility and metro. He has held the Nortel seat on a number of university advisory boards. Mr. Hudson received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He graduated from the Systems Design program at the University of Waterloo and his graduate work focused on pattern recognition and signal processing applied to earth resources imagery. Jonathan Wells Jonathan Wells is Manager, Research Programs at Carleton University, and comes from a background of software engineering. Mr. Wells has experience in all sizes of high tech business from very small startups upwards. He founded and ran a small software development and consultancy business for several years, and subsequently worked as a project manager for HP software development teams in New Zealand. More recently Mr. Wells held the position of CIO for Asure New Zealand, a Crown Corporation equivalent to the Meat Inspection Branch of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. New Zealand earns up to Cdn $4B from meat exports each year. Mr. Jonathan Wells has an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science, and holds an MBA from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Yannick Bouchard Yannick Bouchard is an Economic Development Advisor for the Developpement Economique CLD Gatineau. He has worked with entrepreneurs to develop business projects (start-up, R&D, commercialisation, expansion, etc.) for the past five years. Mr. Bouchard holds a Master Degree in Regional Economic Development from the Universitie du Quebec en Outaouais (UQO) as well as a Bachelor in Business Administration from Bishop's University. He's working closely with the high tech sector, particularly with the Language Technology Research Centre (LTRC). He's also been working for Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) on numerous infrastructure projects dealing with innovation |