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Light-Based Technologies is pleased to present the following members of the executive team.
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Peter van der Gracht – Chairman
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A successful technology start-up veteran, Peter van
der Gracht has over twenty-five years of experience leading
companies through multiple financings, operational build-outs,
acquisitions, mergers and buy-outs. He currently serves
as Executive Chairman of a number of Vancouver based technology
companies. Peter was the past President & CEO of Ignition
Point Technologies Corp, a multi-divisional, broadband
communications company focused on providing connectivity
in the last-mile. In 1982, Peter co-founded Nexus, which
became the world's second largest manufacturer of satellite
and cable TV head-end equipment. When the company was
sold to industry giant Scientific-Atlanta, he became vice-president
and general manager of the Nexus division. He then moved
to Scientific-Atlanta's Head-end Systems division, which
accounted for more than 25 percent of company revenues
in 1998. In 1999, Peter led Imedia Corporation, a Silicon
Valley-based digital video start-up, to a successful $100M
buy-out. Most recently, Peter negotiated the sale of Wavemakers
Inc., a developer of processors and software algorithms
which optimize voice quality and speech recognition in
automotive environments to Harman International. Throughout
his career, Peter has identified, funded, designed and
launched dozens of innovative technology products, and
has been responsible for all aspects of corporate operations.
Peter is a director of many public, private and not-for-profit
organizations. Peter holds a master's degree in electrical
engineering from the University of British Columbia and
is the recipient of multiple awards for entrepreneurship.
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Jeanette Jackson - Chief Executive Officer, Director
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Jeanette Jackson is Chief Executive Officer of Light-Based
Technologies (LBT) Incorporated. Jeanette graduated
from Simon Fraser University's business faculty in 2003.
This, accompanied by her years of experience in sales,
service and account management in a variety of industries
gave Jeanette the skills and acumen to take the plunge
as an entrepreneur.
In 2004, Jeanette established LBT to offer simple,
cost-effective and intelligent control solutions for
LEDs in the SSL industry. The business was based on
technical developments from her father, Vern Jackson.In
the first few years, Jeanette focused on developing
intellectual property, prototypes and customer traction.
It was in 2006 when Jeanette gathered enough investment
to develop the first LBT controller, the LB3.
Over the next year, Jeanette worked diligently on application/design-wins
and financing. In late 2008, Jeanette was able to secure
the company's first round of financing from a local
VC. This represented a huge leap forward in realizing
the company's potential.
Over the last year, Jeanette has moved the company
to a head office in Vancouver, hired the appropriate
engineering staff and prepared to launch the new LB4
LED control family. With several applications market
ready and many more on the way, Jeanette has positioned
LBT as a true alternative to the control solutions currently
applied in the SSL market.
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T. Kent Elliott - Director
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Mr Elliott joins the Board of Light-Based Technologies Board, bringings more than 25 years of executive experience to the Company. Since January 2003, Kent has led ForeScout Technologies, a world leader in Network Access Control and Complance products, as its CEO. A veteran within the Internet securitycommunity, Kent has held a wide range of international executive positions, living and working in the United States, Canada, Asia (Hong Kong) and Europe (The Netherlands). Before joining ForeScout, Kent was the founding executive, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nokia Internet Communications, President and CEO of Vienna Systems (acquired by Nokia December 1998), Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TMI Communications, a mobile satellite company and various executive roles at Mitel Corporation including Senior Vice President of Product Management, General Manager for the Asia Pacific Region and Head of Business Development for Europe.
While at Nokia, Kent grew the company's Internet Communications group into a world-class network security and virtual private network provider, creating a strong team and an effective global distribution and support network. While President and CEO of Vienna Systems, Vienna became an early global leader in the emerging Voice over IP market for the Enterprise and Alternate Carriers. Under Kent's leadership, a strong team was created which developed award-winning products and established strong distribution channels in North America, Europe and Asia.
Kent holds an MBA from Queen's University, Canada with a primary focus on marketing and strategic planning. He is also a retired Chartered Accountant. He currently serves on the Board of ForeScout, the advisory board of N-Able and past advisory board member of VoiceGenie.
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Richard Mackellar – Director
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Richard MacKellar is a serial entrepreneur who has
worked with Chrysalix team members for a decade. As an
engineer Richard started his career with NEI Parsons,
a division of Rolls Royce that designed turbines and generators
for power generation. He worked on Drax, the largest coal
fired power station in Europe and Bruce, the largest Nuclear
station in the world. Rolls Royce fully funded his MBA
studies where he moved from England to Boston, then continued
working for Rolls Royce in Canada, again supplying power
equipment to the electric utility industry.
For the past sixteen years Richard has been running
venture backed startup companies. Most recently, as
President and CEO, he successfully sold BrightSide Technologies
to Dolby Laboratories for an annualized return for investors
of 45-60%. Prior to this he was President/CEO of NxtPhase,
raising $57 million in venture capital and building
relationships with GE, Honeywell and Mitsubishi as well
as the three largest Canadian utilities and three of
the larger US utilities.
Richard holds a Metallurgy Degree from Sheffield University
and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Technical Advisory Board.
Light-Based Technologies is very proud of the experience
and knowledge it has attracted to for its technical oversight.
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Dr.Gary Thomas
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Gary Thomas was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada.
He received both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from
the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Following postdoctoral work at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
in Berkeley, California he joined Philips Research Laboratories
in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1970. Following a period
of fundamental and applied research on surface physics
and materials, he became involved, in a management position,
in the pioneering work which led to the development of
the various forms of optical disc systems such as the
CD and DVD. In 1990 he was appointed Senior Vice President
of Philips Research with broad responsibilities in the
areas of optical storage, semiconductor lasers, precision
mechanics and analytical instrumentation. In addition,
he was responsible for most of the display-related research
activities of Philips which included CRT's, LCD's, OLED
and LCoS. From 1998 up to his retirement in 2003, he was
Chief Technology Officer for Display Technologies for
the business divisions of Philips. This included both
coordination of internal display innovation and scouting
external display-related technologies for Philips and
Philips' joint ventures. Since his retirement he has been
active as a consultant, primarily to start-up companies
in the display area.
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Tom Foxall - B. Sc., M. App. Sc., Electrical Engineering
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Mr. Foxall has over 30 years of experience in electronics
design. He has worked for various industries including
telcom, custom IC design, wireless equipment, industrial
equipment, medical equipment and others. He has worked
in numerous technical areas which include integrated circuit
design, analog circuit design, digital signal processing,
vibration analysis, discrete analog processing, and medical
systems design. In addition to technical work, Mr. Foxall
has served on numerous technical committees including
the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference
Technical Committee and the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference Technical Committee, and advisory boards such
as the B.C. Microelectronics Society, Electronics Advisory
Committee of Kwantlen College and Engineering Advisory
Committee of the University of Victoria. Mr. Foxall remains
active as a consultant to the electronics industry.
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