Management & Board

Lisa Payne has over 20 years of senior leadership experience at public and private companies, most recently as CFO and VP, Business Development at BCIC, where she worked with industry, universities, government, and technology organizations to encourage the development of entrepreneurs and commercialization of technology. During her tenure, she also served as interim CEO. Prior to BCIC, Lisa served as the President of Aegis Mobility, a mobile application company, and President of TeraSpanNetworks Inc, a fibre optic network builder and manufacturer.

In 1999, Lisa co-founded Criterion Service Laboratory Inc., a contract research lab that provides services to biotech companies across North America, and conducted its own scientific research in the early detection of cancer. At Wavemakers Inc, a voice-enhancement software company, she obtained funding and closed financings, until its eventual acquisition by Harman International in 2001. Until 1999, she held the Office of General Manager during her tenure at Scientific Atlanta (formerly Nexus Engineering Corp).

Lisa actively serves as a mentor to a number of BC start-ups, including Square Data Facilities, a data centre in BC for which she is both a Director and Advisor. Since 2005, she has served on the Board of the Focus Foundation, which helps high-risk youth achieve their potential.

Ed brings over 20 years of experience in technology companies. He was previously Vice President of Sales at JustSystems, where he led new business sales of XML-based content creation software and content lifecycle solutions to Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies in North America and EMEA. Prior to that, Ed was Director of Sales for the XMetaL product group at BlastRadius Software, which was acquired by JustSystems in 2006. He was also a Business Development Manager at Motorola, Director of North American Sales for Blue Wave Systems, and Director of EMEA Sales at Spectrum Signal Processing. Ed started his career as a computer systems engineer prior to moving into sales. He holds a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan, College of Engineering. At Colligo Networks, Ed is responsible for building and executing a worldwide key account sales strategy to capitalize on the growing opportunities in the desktop collaboration market.

Valerio has over 15 years of experience in technology, with expertise in executive management and sales operations, including both direct and channel sales. In EMEA, Valerio is responsible for growing sales and business development, building strategies to increase market penetration, engaging Fortune 500 companies, and managing relations with partners and distributors. He has held senior account and sales management positions with major Blue-chip industry leaders, including IBM, Dell, and Quest Software – where he sold hardware and software solutions to international companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, while fostering strategic business partnerships to build channel sales in EMEA. Valerio was previously Sales Director at Just Systems and Sales Manager at Quest Software, where he managed teams that consistently exceeded revenue targets. Valerio holds a First Class Degree in Political Science and Economy Research from the University of Political Science in Italy.

Carl has over 12 years of experience in software development and technology. He has worked in multiple areas of the development process including consulting, application development, platform development, and managing teams. Most recently, Carl was Director, Software Development at CDCSoftware, running the world-class development team that builds the platform products for Pivotal CRM. Carl has a Bachelor of Science (Computing Science) and is a certified ScrumMaster.

With more than 10 years of management experience in high tech online marketing, direct marketing, corporate communications and public relations, Shantel provides the strategic leadership for Colligo’s marketing initiatives. Prior to joining Colligo in 2010, Shantel held the positions of Director, Marketing and Director, Direct Marketing at ActiveState Software Inc., where she developed and led enterprise and B2C marketing efforts for a suite of applications and services using open source programming languages; and Director, Marketing, North America, for Sophos, a leading provider of integrated threat management solutions for the enterprise.

Trevor Dyck is the Director of Product Management for Colligo Networks, driving product strategy and roadmap for all of Colligo’s products. Trevor has over 18 years of experience in the technology industry, including Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies and Zeugma Systems in both engineering and product management roles. Trevor holds BASc in Computer Engineering and Master of Business Administration degrees from Simon Fraser University and has co-authored several US patents.

Bill England is the Director of Business Development for Colligo Networks. Prior to joining Colligo, Bill worked as Sales Account Manager for Spectrum Signal Processing. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, and is a frequent speaker at SharePoint conferences and user group meetings.