About CopperLeaf
CopperLeaf Technologies Advisory Board
Pascal Spothelfer | Chair
Pascal Spothelfer is president and CEO of the British Columbia Technology Industries Association (BCTIA). Born and raised in Switzerland, he moved to Canada in 1994 and has held a number of senior management roles across several industries both in Europe and Canada. Most recently, he was president and CEO at Spectrum Signal Processing, a Vancouver-based provider of advanced wireless communication systems which was recently purchased by Vecima Networks.
Prior to Spectrum, Pascal was the senior vice-president, strategic development at Teekay Shipping (Canada) Ltd. and from 1994 to 1998, served as COO and later president and CEO of NovAtel Inc., a high-tech company specialized in global positioning systems. Before moving to Canada, Pascal was involved first as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and then as a member of the executive team in the turnaround of Jenoptik AG in Germany.
Mr. Spothelfer holds a Master of Law and a PhD in law from the University of Basel, Switzerland and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Lynn Casey | Director
Lynn founded Copperleaf in 2000 to help organizations build world-class Asset Investment Planning (AIP) processes. Under her leadership, CopperLeaf released its landmark AIP product, ESP. Before launching CopperLeaf, Lynn formed a consulting practice in 1993 to help firms achieve financial, commercial, and operational benefits through effective planning. She has also worked with a number of leading utility firms and research organizations worldwide. Trained and qualified as a Certified Management Accountant, Lynn began her career in the corporate finance group of a multi-national corporation where she led a finance team, ultimately transitioning into the mergers and acquisitions group. She has become a highly-regarded speaker in the area of asset investment planning and continues to develop CopperLeaf’s thought-leadership by providing clients with specialty consulting services.
Mark Dance | Director
Mark Dance has spent the past 20 years in the Vancouver high-tech community. For 11 of those years, he was at Creo Inc., where he played central roles in growing the company from 10M$US in revenue to over 700M$US in revenue, and from 100 people to more than 4000 people world-wide. His roles included president, COO, and CFO. Since Creo’s sale to Eastman Kodak Company in 2005, Mr. Dance has been working with several west coast technology companies to improve their strategies and execution. He has also lectured undergraduate engineering classes on business, economics, and product management to help groom the technology entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Mr. Dance has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) degree in Mechanical Engineering from UBC and holds numerous patents on medical robotic devices.
Jay Hayden | Director
Jay Hayden is a partner in the Gowlings Business Law Group in Vancouver. His practice focuses on commercial and corporate transactions, including share and asset purchase and sale transactions, financing transactions (including banking, corporate lending, project finance, structured finance, securitizations and off-shore oil and gas transactions), and off-shore oil and gas project work. He has also worked as a corporate banking account manager for a major Canadian bank.
In recent years, Mr. Hayden was lead counsel on the $325 million project financing for the lender in respect of an airport authority, lead counsel for the purchaser on the acquisition and financing of a natural gas trading exchange, counsel to a newly created coal trust for its $540 million credit facilities and derivative contracts, and counsel to a major Canadian bank on a number of secured and unsecured financings for public companies in the power, oil and gas, engineering, technology and manufacturing industries.
Mr. Hayden earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Queen’s University and his law degree from Osgoode Hall. He has practised with national law firms for 17 years in Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary, and is a member of the British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario law societies. He is active in the philanthropic community, serving as president of a private foundation that supports a variety of charitable organizations including those devoted to education and medical research.
Gary Swofford | Director
Gary Swofford recently retired as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Puget Sound Energy (PSE), where he was instrumental in launching the company’s automated meter-reading (AMR) system to 1.5 million homes and businesses in the Washington state region. He began his PSE career 37 years earlier as an engineer and then as vice president of customer operations and vice president of operations. In 1997, he took over all the operations for both the gas and the electric business, starting on the road to an AMR system. Mr. Swofford has a deep understanding of the issues driving energy utilities, particularly in the areas of business strategy, operations and the testing and deployment of new technologies. With utility restructuring gaining momentum and continuing cost pressure from lower-cost public utilities, PSE achieved the distinction of becoming one of the lowest-cost utilities in the country in 2001. Under Mr. Swofford’s leadership, PSE piloted the largest residential demand management program in the country during the latter portion of the West coast energy crisis.
Mr. Swofford earned his degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He currently provides consulting services to numerous industry organizations through his company, Swofford Energy Consulting LLC.
Glenn Wong | Director
Glenn Wong has been building businesses and brands in markets around the world for more than 25 years. Currently, he is the president and COO of Red Mile Entertainment, a video game publisher and developer. Prior to that Mr. Wong was president and CEO of Apparent Networks, a software start-up company. He also served as president and general manager of Electronic Arts Canada, the world’s largest videogame software development studio. During his tenure, the studio doubled its revenue and grew to over 700 employees. He was also a senior vice-president of Electronic Arts Inc., the dominant player in the interactive electronic entertainment world with US$3 billion in revenue. Before joining EA, Mr. Wong was president of Rogers Cable TV British Columbia and oversaw 900 employees and the first large – scale implementation of a 2 way fibre optic network in Canada. He was also president and CEO of BC Hot House and vice-president marketing for Nabob Foods.
After graduating from UBC, he began his career at Procter and Gamble in brand management and has been recognized over the years with numerous awards for his marketing and business accomplishments. Mr. Wong is active in the community and currently sits on several boards including Coast Capital Savings, the Vancouver Police Board, the B.C. Cancer Foundation as well as UBC’s Sauder School of Business Faculty Advisory Board. His past board positions have included ICBC, Mohawk Oil, and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (an immigrant community service organization). Through his consulting company Catalyst Solutions Ltd., he has helped local and international companies find their growth potential through strategic reorganization and development.