Zafar Abbas (Canada)
Zafar  is a certified PMP and a graduate in Electrical Engineering. He has 40 years of field experience in telecommunication, satellite, SCADA, and power projects. Zafar has worked with major US, KOREAN, and Middle Eastern groups. Working in multicultural environments, he has developed the capabilities to effectively communicate and manage teams of diverse backgrounds. Zafar has successfully managed and delivered technically complex projects in multi-vendor installations. He has traveled and worked in most volatile countries and regions and has never been afraid to take a challenge both technically and administratively.

Zafar frequently travels to the Middle East to maintain and grow his network of businesses and social contacts thus assisting in fulfilling his responsibilities to his clients and partners. No country is a NO GO area and he is always willing to help partners anywhere anytime. Zafar brings a huge pool of technical resources and a wide range of industrial contacts with the capability to successfully manage and deliver the right product at the right time. Most recently he has been working in an advisory capacity with various international groups.

Zafar believes in continuous professional development and regularly attends seminars and participates in professional forums to achieve that goal. Zafar is passionate about his work and takes pleasure out of his achievements.

Robert Burke (USA)
A senior business development executive who is centrally involved in an extensive list of start-ups, program/project success, business development for 30+ years both in North America and internationally. As Senior Vice President, Vice President, Director, Program Director, managed myriad complexities (finance, IT, telecom, partnerships) as well as ongoing operations. Proven in revenue generation, operations management, product management, contract management, P & L, M & A, strategic planning and alliances, and hands-on operations.

Key responsibilities have included business development, finance, planning, programs, operations in businesses, and projects around the world. Identified, contracted with, and then nurtured vendor relationships with major (Fortune 100) and smaller companies.

Developed a value-added function with offices and staff, distributors, resellers across diverse operating regions. Developed and managed the operations staff, customer interface, and engineering. Skilled in most aspects of customer development, program management including developing new operations, the intricacies of ongoing operations such as planning, OPEX/CAPEX budgeting, forecasting, program milestone measurement, general operations, contracts, providing meaningful feedback to all involved parties/gaining and maintaining consensus.

Puneet Randhawa (Canada)
Puneet  has over two decades work experience with several large corporations and start-ups including Tata Unisys, Telstra, and ING Bank in Australia, Canada, and India. His experience spans verticals like M2M, communications, manufacturing, and banking. During the last 10 years, he has worked on large scale data systems requiring cloud technologies for device data and helps architect several systems in the area of IoT and machine data analytics. His expertise is in system engineering, project managing distributed teams, and architecting heterogeneous systems requiring cloud and mobile computing elements.

His knowledge spans cloud computing, big data analytics, imaging systems, machine learning, wireless and satellite systems. As an entrepreneur, he has developed products in the security market that are being commercially used today by several companies globally.

Puneet’s services include helping clients build connected devices software for industrial automation based on artificial intelligence technologies.