The Team
At Datametrex, we believe that the right understanding and technological edge can lead companies towards a successful future. We always seek valuable feedback from our clients and investors in order to learn and evolve.
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Management and Board of Directors
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Marshall Gunter
Marshall Gunter
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Gunter’s engineering background is rooted in big data analysis and machine learning at scale. Working with Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Marshall was responsible for bringing Varagesale to the mass market. Marshall took Varagesale from a one room shop to a powerhouse engineering department of 60 plus people and played a leading role in their $35-million-dollar raise. Marshall lead the team that built iSentium’s sentiment engine. iSentium uses patented Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract sentiment from unstructured social content then instantly transforms it into highly actionable indicators in finance, brand management and politics, handling billions of data points to harness the power of the masses as they tweet and text.
Chief Financial Officer,
C.P.A., C.A.
Don Shim
Don Shim
Chief Financial Officer
C.P.A., C.A.
Mr. Shim has led a successful accounting and finance career in both the US and Canada. He brings a wealth of knowledge to the team with his expertise in auditing publicly- traded junior mining companies and high-tech industries. Member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia and a Certified Public Accountant registered in the State of Illinois, United States. Audit partner on numerous audit engagements for various publicly traded companies, primarily focusing on junior mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, and high-tech industries. Mr. Shim also assisted various start-up companies in achieving public listings on the TSX Venture Exchange, Canadian Securities Exchange and the OTC Market. In addition, Mr. Shim teaches accounting at a local college in Vancouver and acts as a facilitator at CPA Western School of Business, mentoring CPA candidates enrolled in the CPA Professional Education Program.
Chairman
C.P.A., C.A., C.Dir.
Paul Haber
Paul Haber,
Chairman
C.P.A., C.A., C.Dir.
Mr. Haber has been involved in corporate finance and capital markets for over 20 years. He has served as the CFO and Audit Committee Chair of many public and private companies. Some of the Boards Mr. Haber has sat on includes, XTM Inc. (CSE:PAID), South American Silver Corp. (TSX:SAC), Migao Corporation (TSX:MGO), China Health and Diagnostics Inc. (TSXV:CHO), High Desert Gold Corp. (TSXV:HDG), and IND Dairytech Inc. (TSXV:IND). Mr. Haber has also served as the CFO of various public companies including, Oremex Gold (TSXV:OAG), SEL Exchange Inc. (TSXV:SEL). Leitch Technology Corp. (TSXV:LTV) and Migao Corporation (TSX:MGO). Mr. Haber started his career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoppers LLP). He is both a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant, with an Honours Bachelors of Arts Degree in Management from the University of Toronto. Mr. Haber was awarded his Chartered Director designation from the DeGroote School of Business in partnership with the Conference Board of Canada.
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Charles Park
CFA, Chief Operating Officer
Charles Park
CFA, Chief Operating Officer
Charles brings a breadth of knowledge cultivated from over a decade in the banking, technology, and online gaming industries. An engineer at heart, Mr. Park obtained his Bachelor of Science at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He went on to attend the accelerated International Graduate Program at the Standard Chartered Bank where he began as an FX Trader and transitioned to Corporate Lending, where he led several substantial Commercial Real Estate (CRE) deals. It was during this time he became an accredited Charted Financial Analyst (CFA). In the last five (5) years, Charles has taken on significant operational and business roles at an online gaming company, helping it grow from a startup to a major player in the digital space.
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Omar Sharif
Dr. Omar Sharif
Chief Medical Officer
After receiving his training at University of Manitoba. Omar went on to take leading roles within his departments of hospital medicine and emergency medicine within BC and Alberta. Working for over 10 years in these fields and gaining a status of clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia he has taught many students and interns. He has now brought his skills and experience to help fill the ever growing void of top level community medicine and aid in it's implementation at Medi-call. A fierce believer in resilience, customers first, and team member engagement, Omar is driven by his passion to deliver innovative healthcare solutions and improve health outcomes for all Canadians
Chief Technology Officer
Maxime Martineau
Maxime Martineau
Chief Technology Officer
With more than a decade of experience, Maxime is an expert in developing Artificial Intelligence powered software for social media analysis and development. Mr. Martineau joined Nexalogy during its early years as a software developer and significantly contributed to its success.
Maxime’s expertise lies in full stack development, SaaS solutions, and social media analysis at scale.
Hon. James S. Peterson, PC.
Board of Director
Hon. James S. Peterson, PC.
Board of Director
Mr. Peterson obtained his BA and LLB from Western University, his LLM from Columbia University, and his DCL from McGill University. He is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association, and is a co-chair of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute. Mr. Peterson has also served for the government of Canada as minister of international trade, secretary of state (international financial institutions) and chair of the House of Commons standing committee on finance. While a cabinet minister, Mr. Peterson represented Canada at the World Trade Organization's Doha round of negotiations, which were focused on expanding trade and investment in leading emerging markets Brazil, Russia, India and China, and with complex issues related to trade with Canada's NAFTA partners, the European Union, the Middle East and the Americas.
Mr. Peterson served as chair of the House of Commons finance committee, where he began the practice of public prebudget hearings and completed several major studies, including a review of Canada's value-added tax (the GST). He retired from the House of Commons in 2007 after 23 years of public service as the member of Parliament for Willowdale (Toronto).
Board of Director
Benj Gallander
Benj Gallander
Board of Director
Mr. Gallander brings over 40 years of experience in the markets, with ample skills in integrating business and strategic investors and his know-how bringing innovation to companies. Over time, he has refined his approach to investing and has achieved one of the best track records in the investment industry. Mr. Gallander is a co-editor of Contra the Heard investment letter and over the past ten years the portfolio he manages achieved an annualized return of 18.4%. Benj co-writes "The Contra Guys" column for The Globe and Mail and is an author of three best-selling books, writes for several magazines, and has been a regular on BNN Bloomberg since virtually the beginning.