Board of Directors
Stanley Stern
Chairman of the board of directors since August 2001
Mr. Stern, 52, has been a Managing Director and Head of Technology and Financial Institutions, Investment Banking with Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm, since April 2004. From February 2002 to March 2004, Mr. Stern served as a Managing Director and Head of Investment with C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, an investment banking firm. From January 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Stern served as Managing Director of STI Ventures Advisory USA Inc. and as a member of the Board of Directors and the investment committee of STI Ventures, a venture capital company focusing on the high technology market.
Eugene Fiume
Director since June 2005
Mr. Fiume, 51, is a Professor (since 1995) and past Chair (1998-2004) of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he also co-directs the Dynamic Graphics Project. Mr. Fiume’s advisory board positions include the Max-Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication and NGRAIN Corporation. Mr. Fiume also works with venture capital companies and SMEs on due diligence and strategy.
Erez Gissin
Director since August 2001
Mr. Gissin, 50, is the Chief Executive Officer of BCID Ltd., an investment company focusing on infrastructure development projects in China. From July 2000 to March 2005, Mr. Gissin has served as the Chief Executive Officer of IP Planet Networks Ltd., an Israeli satellite communication operator providing Internet backbone connectivity and solutions to Internet Service Providers. From July 1995 to July 2000, Mr. Gissin was Vice President, Business Development of Eurocom Communications Ltd., a holding company that controls several telecommunications services, equipment and Internet companies in Israel. Mr. Gissin is also a director of Partner Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: PTNR)
Joichi Ito
Director since December 2008
Mr. Ito, 42, has served as one of our directors since December 2008 and is the current Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons. He is a co-founder and current board member of Digital Garage and is on the board of Technorati. He is a Senior Visiting Researcher of Keio Research Institute at the Shonan Fujisawa Campus of Keio University in Japan and is the Chairman of Six Apart Japan, a weblog software company. He is also on the board of directors of a number of non-profit organizations, including The Mozilla Foundation. Mr. Ito has created numerous Internet companies, including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Six Apart, Technorati, Flickr, SocialText, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture, Kongregate. He has served, and continues to serve, on various central and local Japanese government committees and boards, advising the government on IT, privacy and computer security related issues.
Allen Karp, Q.C.
Director since October 2005
Mr. Karp, 68, was a partner in the law firm of Goodman and Carr LLP, where he practiced law from 1966 until 1986. Mr. Karp had been with Cineplex Odeon Corporation in various positions since 1986, where he retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2002 and as Chairman Emeritus in 2005. Mr. Karp is a Trustee of Brookfield Real Estate Services Fund and is a director of its management company, the Chair of its corporate governance committee and sits on the audit committee. Mr. Karp is Chairman of the board of trustees of IBI Income fund, and is Chairman of the Nominating, Governance and Compensation Committee. Mr. Karp is a director and immediate past Chairman of the Toronto International Film Festival Group and Chariman of its Corporate Governance Committee.
Lloyd Morrisett
Director since February 1994
Dr. Morrisett, 79, served as a director of Infonautics, Inc., our predecessor, beginning in February 1994 and served as chairman of the Board of Directors of Infonautics beginning in March 1998 until we merged with Tucows Delaware in August 2001 and became Tucows Inc. He is the co-founder of the Children’s Television Workshop—now Sesame Workshop—and served from 1969 to 1998 as president of The Markle Foundation, a charitable organization.
Elliot Noss
Director since August 2001
Mr. Noss, 46, is our President and Chief Executive Officer and has served in such capacity since the completion of our merger with Tucows Delaware in August 2001. From May 1999 until completion of the merger in August 2001, Mr. Noss served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tucows Delaware. Before that, from April 1997 to May 1999, Mr. Noss served as Vice President of Corporate Services of Tucows Interactive Ltd., which was acquired by Tucows Delaware in May 1999.
Rawleigh H. Ralls
Director since May, 2009
Mr. Ralls is a founding partner of Lacuna, LLC, an investment management company focused on both public and private companies. Prior thereto, he was Chairman of Netidentity.com, an Internet email and web hosting company, where he led corporate strategy and development until the firm's sale in 2006. Mr. Ralls currently serves on the Board of Directors of a number of companies, including Savoya, LLC, IntraOp Medical, Knowledge Factor, Mocapay, Inc, and SageFire, Inc.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Director since June 2005
Mr. Schwartz, 46, was originally Vice President of the Juvenile Division of Dorel Industries, a position he held until 1989, when their Canadian divisions were merged and he became Vice-President, Finance. Mr. Schwartz held the position of Vice-President, Finance from 1989 until 2003. In 2003, his title was changed to Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Schwartz is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and has a degree in the field of business administration.