Board
Don McDougall, President & CEO
Prior to joining Space-Time Research, Don was the Vice President of Customer Solutions and Alliances and also of the Western Region Commercial Sales at the SAS Institute. Before its acquisition by SAS, Don was President and COO of ABC Technologies and a long-time board member. He has also held the role of President and CEO of Decision Dynamics Inc, a developer of Supply Chain and Optimization software, and CEO of the Mitron Corporation, a developer of manufacturing automation software. Don was also Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Floating Point Systems, and a long time employee and divisional Vice President of Data General Corp. in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Don holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and has attended Executive management and leadership courses.
Ivor Frischknecht
Ivor Frischknecht joined Starfish Ventures in 2005 after 15 years of hands-on management and investing experience. His investment focus is Cleantech and enterprise software. He has spent more than ten years in senior operational management roles, including as CEO, in energy, software and internet companies.
Lex McArthur
Lex has over 22 years' experience in management roles in the finance, technology and mining sectors. He has extensive operational experience with technology start-ups as CEO of one of Australia's leading IT investment incubators from 2000 to 2002 and prior to this as CEO of an IT service company and a multimedia publisher. He is on the boards of Space-Time Research, Redfern Broadband Networks and Redfern Optical Components.
Wayne Fitzsimmons
Wayne is a partner in the MGroup, a boutique investment company based in Melbourne, Australia with offices in Washington, DC. He and his two partners provide a broad range of professional advice to high technology IT and Biotech companies in the area of management, business planning and legal services. Wayne is an experienced executive who has worked extensively in the USA (10 years), UK (4 years) as well as in his home country of Australia.