President and CEO
Chief Technology Officer (Founder)
René has more than 15 years of experience in the high-tech industry. He is a co-founder and former CEO of Invidex Inc., a provider of enterprise software solutions to the broadcast industry. Before Invidex, René held a senior sales position at ABL Canada Inc., a provider of hardware and software solutions to the telecom industry. Earlier in his career, he held software and hardware engineering positions at Bombardier and other Montreal companies.
René is a Fellow at McGill's Dobson Center for Entrepreneurial Studies where he regularly lectures. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Sherbrooke University.
With more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, André founded Ryma Technology Solutions Inc. in March 2000. Before founding Ryma, André was Chief Technology Officer of Surefire Commerce Inc. where he was responsible for the strategic direction, architecture and design of their transactional engine for the processing of electronic payments via the Internet.
He was previously Presidentand CEO of Micro Tempus Inc., a publicly traded company with 4000 customers around the world that specializes in the transfer of enterprise data across heterogeneous platforms. Under his leadership, Micro Tempus acquired BCE Emergis' banking solutions and sports & entertainment divisions. Prior to Micro Tempus, André was VP Research & Development at DLGL Inc., where he led the re-architecture of a proprietary technology to an open standard technology that was successfully deployed in Canada wide HR systems for companies such as Nortel Networks. André’s previous experiences also include development, sales support and customer support positions in companies such as Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment and Atomic Energy of Canada.
André studied Computer Science at Sir George Williams University.
Russell has more than 18 years of experience in the technology industry. His previous position was Vice President of Sales for Invidex Inc., a provider of enterprise software and services to broadcasters around the world. Prior to Invidex, he was Vice President of Sales for JCI Entertainment, a provider of video and file transmission services to the Media and Broadcast communities where he put in place,
trained and managed a team of inside and outside sales representatives throughout Canada and the US. Russell was also Senior Account Executive for Alcatel (Newbridge Networks), where he led the eastern Canada direct and indirect sales initiative for a new switching product line. Russell also held a Senior Account Executive position for EDS, where he was top sales representative within his division for two years and second top sales representative for another 2 years.
Russell holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems degree from the DeVry Institute of Technology in Columbus, Ohio.
Robin is a co-founder of Ryma Technology Solutions, and brings more than 10 years of experience in Product Management and Product Marketing in the software industry, including positions at Surefire Commerce, Micro Tempus, Logos and Interleaf. At Ryma, she is responsible for the strategic and tactical management of the FeaturePlan product line, as well as the coordination of all product related activities. Robin has extensive experience in building high performance product teams in new and emerging markets.
Robin is a trained Pragmatic Marketing Product Manager and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University.