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software company—and that keeps us
innovative as well.
AD: Identifying ourselves as service
providers—that makes us deliver.
DL: We’re able to move, swerve and change
as demands change.
ABOUT IGLOO
DAN LATENDRE , CEO
Dan Latendre is CEO of IGLOO
Software and a technology innovator. For
more than 20 years, he has played significant
roles in the development and marketing of
leading-edge technologies for such pioneer-
ing Canadian companies as MKS, Delrina
and OpenText. He was instrumental in
launching: the first wireless internet access
package, first commercial search engine for
the Web and the first web-based intranet
application.
Dan is an executive member of the
Canadian International Council, sits on the
advisory board of the Manufacturing
Innovation Network and is special advisor to
the Dean of Health and Sciences at the
University of Waterloo.
ANDREW DIXON, VICE PRESIDENT,
MARKETING & OPERATIONS
Andrew is IGLOO’s Senior Vice President,
Marketing and Operations and is responsible
for refining the go-to-market strategy for
IGLOO’s social intranet and extranet
solutions. Prior to IGLOO, he was Vice
President, Business and Marketing Officer,
Microsoft Canada, where he was responsible
for driving the Canadian business unit’s
marketing and operational efforts.
Andrew is an eighteen-year veteran of
Microsoft in Seattle as well as its Canadian
subsidiary where he managed several prouct
groups and divisions, including the Server
and Tools Business Group, Tablet PC and
Windows Client Marketing, the .Net Services
Division as well as the Office Product Suite.
ONTARIO EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES FUND (OETF )
The Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund
will co-invest — with qualified venture
capital funds and other private investors —
directly into companies working within the
focus areas defined by Ontario’s Innovation
Agenda:
• Clean technologies
• Life sciences and advanced health
technologies
• Digital media and information and
communications technologies.
A discretionary, non-entitlement invest-
ment program, the OETF is a $250 million
fund that will commit a maximum of $50-
million per year for five years. Investments
will be made alongside qualified co-investors
into innovative, high-growth Ontario
companies.
IGLOO SOFTWARE - CANADA’S INNOVATION FUTURE
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