Management
Brian Collie
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
As Founder and CEO, Brian is responsible for SeaWell’s overall management and strategic direction of the company, as well as business development and partnership activities.
He is a recognized technology entrepreneur who has started five new businesses in the last fifteen years, including co-founding both SeaWell and Chantry Networks. Chantry is a WLAN (WiFi) equipment provider, named one of Canada’s top 10 High Tech Stars in 2002 by the National Post and acquired by Siemens AG in January 2005. While with Siemens, Brian held the role of Senior VP, Business Development and established a new HD Video Conferencing Business Unit. Prior to Chantry, Brian co-founded the first Internet division at Nortel Networks and started their first VoIP business unit. Both of these divisions contributed significant revenue growth for Nortel. Brian has also held positions at Motorola’s Internet and Data Networking Group and started his career with Bell Canada.
Brian holds a B.Sc. in Honors Physics from the University of Waterloo and a M.Sc. in Systems Science from the University of Ottawa. He is in high demand in the tech community, where he spends time sharing his vision and experience with young and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Robert Myers
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Director
As Founder and CTO, Bob is responsible for setting the company’s technology direction and promoting ongoing innovation.
Bob has extensive experience in launching new businesses, building and executing product strategies, managing M&A activities, and developing OEM relationships. He has defined successful high-revenue product strategies for dial access, IP-VPN, VoIP, wireless LANs and video conferencing portfolios. Along with Brian Collie, Bob co-founded Chantry Networks and served as CTO, pioneering the evolution of wireless LAN solutions. After the acquisition of Chantry by Siemens, Bob served as VP of Emerging Solutions at Siemens Enterprise. Bob also helped found several key new businesses at Nortel Networks including the first program to address VoIP for carriers and the first initiative to directly address the Internet Service Provider market. While with Nortel he held several senior positions in product management and architecture, leading product strategy efforts.
Bob holds a BSEE degree from the University of Waterloo. He holds a number of patents on networking technologies, and his work has garnered two “Best of Shows” awards at Network World/Interop.
Kerri Golden
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Development
Kerri is responsible for all financial aspects of SeaWell’s business, with a focus on attracting investment capital and exploring opportunities for the business to achieve significant growth.
During her career, Kerri has helped launch and grow several technology businesses and has raised over $1 billion in equity and debt financing. She has served on the boards of several high tech start-ups in the wireless, IT and communications sector and successfully negotiated several M&A transactions. Kerri joins SeaWell from Primaxis Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture fund with investments in the information technology field, including Chantry Networks. Prior to Primaxis, Kerri was the CFO for content producer and distributor Alliance Atlantis. Prior to Alliance Atlantis, she held various positions at Bell Mobility, serving as CEO of the Paging Business Unit and VP, Finance for publicly-traded BCE Mobile.
Kerri obtained her Chartered Accountant designation while with KPMG and holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business. She serves the community in the role of business mentor for first-time technology entrepreneurs.
Andy Beach
Chief Evangelist
Andy Beach is Chief Evangelist at SeaWell Networks, where he drives company and product messaging, promotes the company’s groundbreaking technology, and ensures product strategies align with customer and industry needs. He is also the author of Real World Video Compression, a book that seeks to explain the world of compression in plain English.
Andy brings significant expertise and experience in the field of product strategy & marketing, video compression and rich media solutions. His knowledge of video post-production, compression and interactive design has attracted clients worldwide, including: Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Apple, INC and Adobe Systems, INC.
Most recently, Andy was VP of Marketing for Elemental technologies; a Portland based video compression software company specializing in GPU acceleration. Prior to Elemental, he served as the director of product marketing & support at Inlet Technologies where he oversaw the creation of Armada, an automated media processing solution encompassing analysis and transcoding and Spinnaker, one of the most popular live encoders on the market. Before Inlet, Andy co-founded an interactive agency in New York City and taught digital filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts.
He has a B.F.A. in film & video from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jeff Geiser
VP Business Development
Jeff is responsible for overseeing and evaluating strategic business opportunities and partnerships that support SeaWell Networks’ overall go-to-market strategy.
Jeff has over 15 years of business development and technology sales experience. Prior to joining SeaWell Networks, Jeff was the global Director of Business Development at Keynote Systems and was responsible for the overall strategy of the streaming media and voice-over-IP business units. Before joining Keynote Systems he worked for Akamai for five years and last served as the Director of the North American Technical Consulting organization. He has also held leadership positions with Covad, UUNET and CompuServe.
Jeff holds an MBA from Cox School of Business at SMU and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Robert Pollock
VP Product Management
Rob is responsible for defining product requirements, product roadmaps and product introduction strategies as well as ensuring the product line meets both customer needs and SeaWell’s business objectives.
Rob has over 20 years of product management and product development experience. Prior to joining SeaWell Networks, Rob was VP of Product Management for the Siemens/Chantry WLAN group with global responsibilities. Rob was also the original product manager at Chantry Networks before it was acquired by Siemens. Before joining Chantry/Siemens, Rob held Product Management and Development positions at Nortel Networks, Celestica and Psion Teklogix.
Rob holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University.
Ram Ranganathan
Director, Development
Ram leads the development team and is responsible for the design, development and quality assurance of SeaWell’s products.
Ram has over 10 years of experience in leading teams through the full product cycle from concept, architecture, design and development through quality assurance, pre-sales and customer on-site support. He joins SeaWell from Borderware Technologies, where he was Software Development Manager, Security Protocols and Proxies. Prior to Borderware, Ram served as Technical Lead, Infrastructure and Control Plane at Chantry Networks, a Siemens Company and started his development career at C-Plane Inc. in the Protocols and Adaptors Group, originally in Sunnyvale, CA and then in Montreal, Quebec.
Ram holds an M.S., Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas, a B.Eng in Electronics and Communications from Anna University, Madras, India and a Diploma in Software Technology and Systems Management from National Institute of Information Technology, Madras, India.