Meet Our Management Team

Turnium Technology Group Inc. is managed by technology executives with over 100 years of combined investment experience in IT, telecom, software, and technology.

Doug Chidress

Doug Childress
CEO, Director

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Doug Childress, CEO, Director, is an experienced company director with over 37 years’ experience as a Technologist having spent his past 26 years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. With years of technical knowledge, proven leadership skills, and unwavering drive and commitment to taking Turnium forward into the next era of its growth phase.

Konstantin Lichtenwald

Konstantin Lichtenwald
CFO

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Konstantin has over 16 years of finance and accounting experience, including corporate compliance, accounting and financial management, initial public offerings and reverse takeovers, providing corporate finance, valuation, taxation, financial reporting, consulting and other accounting services to both small businesses as well as public companies.

Peter Brownsdon

Peter Brownsdon
Operations

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Peter has over 15 years of cross-functional operations and project management experience in IT and Telecom. He has completed infrastructure and asset management projects for incumbent carriers, ensured regulatory and code compliance, and conducted commercial and property negotiations.

Rob Hartzenberg

Rob Hartzenberg
Head of Turnium Managed

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Rob has been a packet wrangler since the start of his career, with extensive experience at Internet Service Providers, Managed Service Providers, Telecoms, and in software engineering. Rob has 25 years in the industry and a decade of working with Turnium SD-WAN, Rob now leads the Turnium Managed division.

Josh Hicks

Josh Hicks
VP Research & Development

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Josh is Turnium’s VP of Product and Development and has 9 years of experience in the SD-WAN space. Previously, he lead a cloud infrastructure implementation team at Microsoft working with Fortune 500 companies, managed data center and infrastructure implementations at Abgenix Biopharma (now Amgen), and project managed campus-wide technology initiatives at Simon Fraser University.

Geoff Hultin

Geoff Hultin
Chief Commercial Officer

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Geoff has been involved in the internet and telecom industries since 1994. He has grown new business units, products, and sales at companies including Telus, Sporg.com, Talemetry, Bell Canada, Allstream, and Urbanfibre.

Elisia Van der Mey

Elisia Van der Mey
Sales Manager

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Elisia leads sales for TTGI, supporting a global team that helps service providers and business customers deploy technologies that enhance their business results.

Our Board of Directors

Ralph Garcea

Ralph Garcea
Board Chair

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Ralph co-founded Focus Merchant Group in September 2018 and has more than 22 years experience in senior positions at major domestic, international, and boutique investment firms. He was a top-ranked research analyst, well regarded for the depth and breadth of knowledge of Canadian technology, gaming and industrial companies across a broad range of market capitalizations. Over the years, he has received top three rankings from Brendan Woods, Greenwich, Starmine and Thomson Reuters surveys.

Before becoming a sell-side analyst, Ralph was a research engineer for Bombardier Aerospace, and a business unit manager for Michigan-based LMS North America, managingsales, marketing, and servicess. He holds a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Engineering Science (Aerospace) from the University of Toronto and an M.B.A. (Honours) from the Schulich School of Business at York University. Ralph is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). He currently serves as a Director on the board of TSX-listed Converge Technology Solutions, TSXV-listed Edgewater Wireless Systems, and TSX-V listed Spitfyre Capital.

Doug Chidress

Doug Childress
CEO and Director

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Doug Childress, CEO, Director, is an experienced company director with over 37 years’ experience as a Technologist having spent his past 26 years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. With years of technical knowledge, proven leadership skills, and unwavering drive and commitment to taking Turnium forward into the next era of its growth phase.

Johan Arnet

Johan Arnet
Director and Founder

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Johan has founded and grown six IT, internet, and telecom companies since 1995. He began developing the proprietary software that is now Turnium’s SD-WAN platform in 2009. Johan studied Computer Science at Simon Fraser University and left after two years to become an entrepreneur and continue the IT Consulting work that he had started in high school. In 1999, Johan received the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). In 2009, Johan also started Rocket Networks, an Internet Service Provider business, and sold it to TeliPhone Navigata in 2014.

Erin Campbell

Erin Campbell
Director

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Erin Campbell, ICD.D has over 25 years as an entrepreneur and business advisor experience with board and corporate governance in growth and rapidly evolving technology and industrial companies. Erin has led financing, corporate transactions, re-structuring, M&A for private and public companies operating in Canada and US. Erin is the founding partner of Moneta Partners, an organization providing capital markets and corporate finance advisory services.

Jim Lovie

Jim Lovie
Director

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Jim Lovie has over 30 years of experience in the technology and communications sectors. He has held senior executive roles with Xerox, Bell Canada, and most recently, with Rogers Communications. Jim’s expertise in Sales, Service and Distribution have allowed him to support the growth of these corporations. Jim is very community minded and has participated on the board of Southlake Regional Hospital for 12 years and was the Chair of the Southlake Foundation.

Craig Pentland

Craig Pentland
Director

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Craig Pentland, Director, is an experienced company director with over 25 years’ experience working within the Public accounting industry. He is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Practicing Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser and holds an MBA. Mr. Pentland is currently a director of SLS Advisory, Margosa Graphite Ltd, and CGS Australia Ltd.

Turnium Technology Group Inc. invests in companies that are creating software-defined networks for competitive service providers, enterprises, and small-medium business.

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