Experienced Technology Industry Executive
Ottawa, Canada Area
- Current
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- Chairman at Praized Media
- Owner at CxO Associates Consulting
- Past
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- President and CEO, Chairman at Mobivox
- Director at United Way of Thunder Bay
- Director at Confederation College Foundation
- Director at Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre
- Chairman at CIS Mens National Hockey Championships
- President and CEO at TBayTel
- Director at Teradici
- Director at FirstHand Technologies
- Partner at Skypoint Capital
- Director at Core Networks
- Managing Director at RBC Capital Partners
- Director at Motivus
- Vice-President, Business Development, Global Markets at Teleglobe
- Vice-President Corporate Strategy at BCE and Bell Canada
- Vice President at Bell Canada
- Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company
- Manager, China Business Development at Nortel
- Memory Design Engineer at CALMOS Semiconductor Inc
- Memory Analysis Engineer at MOSAID
- Education
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- Institute of Corporate Directors
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
- Goethe Institut (Ottawa/Montreal)
- International Space University
- Carleton University
- Carleton University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Executive Office
Peter Diedrich’s Summary
A proven, decisive, and internationally experienced entrepreneurial leader and operations executive with a persistent results orientation. Known as a strategic thinker with deep financial acumen and an ability to drive profitable growth and stakeholder satisfaction. A respected problem solver, professional, and coach who creates motivated followership to ensure successful and sustainable growth, organizational and cultural change. It is about a focus on creating the outcomes, not just managing inputs.
Peter Diedrich’s Specialties:
Strategy, Operations, Finance, M&A, Change Management, Corporate Governance, JV/Alliance Management and Negotiation, Growth and New Market and Business Entry
Peter Diedrich’s Experience
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Chairman
Praized Media
(Online Media industry)
2009 — Present (1 year )
Board of Directors role focused on strategic initiatives of the company.
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Owner
CxO Associates Consulting
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2006 — Present (4 years )
My consulting services company for the non-fulltime executive and board activities I undertake.
In '06, was a venture partner with Garage Technology Ventures (Canada) and in 2009-present with CSL. -
President and CEO, Chairman
Mobivox
(Telecommunications industry)
June 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Saved the company and its innovations from a seriously challenged investment syndicate - someone said to me "the worst they'd ever seen in their career" - and kept some excellent engineering talent gainfully employed in one of the best cities in the world....Montreal. A lesson for entrepreneurs and founders.
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Director
United Way of Thunder Bay
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Board of Directors. Help raise money for one of the best charitable organizations on the planet. And apply it locally.
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Director
Confederation College Foundation
(Education Management industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Board of Directors of College Fundraising Foundation. Work with a great group of people committed to quality education for all in remote communities...to try to give back.
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Director
Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Board of Directors of Not-for-profit business development organization
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Chairman
CIS Mens National Hockey Championships
(Sports industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Founding Chairman of Organizing Committee for 2009 and 2010 national men's varsity hockey championship tournament. At the invitation of the denizens of hockey in the Lakehead, chaired planning committee and worked with Thunderwolves Hockey organization to get the branding, planning, and business model elements of Canada's Men's varsity hockey championships started on path to success.
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President and CEO
TBayTel
(Telecommunications industry)
2006 — 2008 (2 years )
In an extremely challenging stakeholder environment, led financial and operational turnarounds and grew the company 35% through new business initiatives and M&A. Hit or surpassed all best in class operating metrics for full service, facilities based telecom company peers and comparables.
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Director
Teradici
(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Board Member and member of Audit Committee, VC investor (Partner at Skypoint) and huge fan of the company's future. The benefits of virtualization of the PC are yet to come and these guys are making it happen.
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Director
FirstHand Technologies
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
Board Member, member of Audit and Comp committees, VC investor (Partner at Skypoint). Company was sold to Counterpath.
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Partner
Skypoint Capital
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2003 — 2006 (3 years )
Early stage Venture Capital focused on Technology. Highlight investment and exit: Nimcat Networks sold to Avaya in 2005. Actually made a seed investment while Managing Partner at RBC Capital Partners and followed through after joining Skypoint in 2006.
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Director
Core Networks
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Board Member, member of Audit and Comp Committees, and VC investor (Managing Partner at RBC Capital Partners). Company was sold to SupportSoft.
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Managing Director
RBC Capital Partners
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
Managing Director and Managing Partner for a $200MM Telecom and Technology focused venture fund. Highlight investment and exit: Airprime Inc, sold to Sierra Wireless (go figure, Canadian tech company buys US one!).
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Director
Motivus
(Wireless industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
Board member and VC investor (Managing Partner at RBC Capital Partners). Company was sold to Citrix.
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Vice-President, Business Development, Global Markets
Teleglobe
(Public Company; TLGB; Telecommunications industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Responsible for integrated 2000-2003 business plan development for all non-North American markets (100+ countries and regions) for TCC. Led Global Markets business unit partnership, new market/service, and external/internal global sales force support initiatives. Reported to the President, Global Markets.
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Vice-President Corporate Strategy
BCE and Bell Canada
(Telecommunications industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
An excellent corporate centre experience. Worked with the Chief Strategy Officer to support the CEO and exec team in strategy development, transaction support, investor relations, and planning for BCE and Bell Canada. Had a secondment to Teleglobe after its acquisition and focused on global customer needs analysis for the business.
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Vice President
Bell Canada
(Telecommunications industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
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Management Consultant
McKinsey & Company
(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years )
Too many outstanding experiences to list but three standouts: privatizing a Latin American telco, fixing another Latin American telco, and working on a top bank's strategy in Australia. Also, did some practice development work on market entry strategies for Greater China (topical at the time).
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Manager, China Business Development
Nortel
(Public Company; NRTLQ; Telecommunications industry)
1988 — 1995 (7 years )
Long stint in BNR. Lucky to help open the China market through JVs in 1993-95. A lot of time spent in Shanghai negotiating and starting up a joint venture company to design chips for telecom applications using Nortel's design and fabrication technologies transferred to Chinese JV partners.
Highlight: Celebration dinner with Nortel, Team Canada in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (1994). -
Memory Design Engineer
CALMOS Semiconductor Inc
(Semiconductors industry)
1986 — 1988 (2 years )
Highlight: design team for new generation fast SRAM families that were manufactured and marketed by Samsung Microelectronics.
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Memory Analysis Engineer
MOSAID
(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)
1985 — 1986 (1 year )
Design analysis of (at the time) state of the art semiconductor memory (SRAM, DRAM) for market and design intelligence services product line.
Highlight: preparing and delivering a month long course on embedded memory design to the chip design team at Telebras SA chip design subsidiary in Campinas, SP Brazil.
Peter Diedrich’s Education
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Institute of Corporate Directors
ICD.D , Corporate Directors Education Program , 2007 — 2008
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
SM , Finance, Strategy, International Management , 1991 — 1993
Teaching Assistant in IT Strategy elective course for two (it goes without saying!) outstanding professors in 1992-93.
- Activities and Societies:
- Member of the Distinguished CEO Speakers Series Committee (we had Steve Jobs (neXT at the time), Paul Stern (Nortel), Percy Barnevik (ABB) and Robert Crandall
(American Airlines and AMR) visit and speak. Private dinners with them were fabulous).
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Goethe Institut (Ottawa/Montreal)
Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache , German language , 1987 — 1991
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International Space University
Space Policy and Law 1988 — 1989
Inaugural ISU summer programs held at MIT and at L'Universite Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France). The 1989 session I worked at the Canadian Space Agency (Policy) and was seconded to ISU to be Teaching Assistant in Space Policy and Law.
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Carleton University
MEng , Electrical Engineering , 1987 — 1989
Received some invaluable support for my thesis work from BNR and ended up working there afterwards.
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Carleton University
BEng , Electrical Engineering , 1981 — 1985
1985 - Ontario Engineering Design Competition: 1st prize, Editorial Communications
1985 - Canadian Engineering Design Competition: 2nd prize, Editorial Communications- Activities and Societies:
- VP Social, VP Finance of Carleton Student Engineering Society
Additional Information
Peter Diedrich’s Interests:
Golf, snowboarding, travel, soccer
Peter Diedrich’s Groups:
Institute of Corporate Directors, Professional Engineers Ontario
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McKinsey & Company Alumni (Unofficial McKinsey Group) -
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MIT Sloan School of Management Alumni -
The Ottawa Network
Peter Diedrich’s Contact Settings
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