Mr. Cohenour previously served as President, CEO, and Director at Sierra Wireless, Inc. (TSE: SW; NASDAQ: SWIR) from 2005 to 2018. While CEO, Mr. Cohenour led a successful business turn-around, resulting in revenue growth of nearly 800% to an annualized run rate of over CAD $1 Billion. He also led a multi-year business transformation, pivoting the company from a mobile computing pure play to the global leader in intelligent wireless solutions for the IoT. Prior to being appointed CEO, Mr. Cohenour held several executive positions at Sierra Wireless from 1996 to 2005, including Vice President of Sales, and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Cohenour also serves on the boards of CalAmp (NASDAQ: CAMP) and RF Industries (NASDAQ: RFIL).
Barbara Holzapfel is a passionate executive with 20 years’ experience driving growth through marketing and innovation in startups and large enterprise businesses, and across B2B and B2C. She is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Genesys, responsible for accelerating the company’s market expansion in the Experience as a Service® category.
She previously served as Vice President, Education at Microsoft, responsible for the marketing and growth strategy for a multi-billion-dollar software, cloud and devices business. Prior to her work with Microsoft, Barbara was Chief Marketing Officer at fintech companies Taulia and Addepar, Inc.; and spent 12 years in a range of leadership roles at SAP, including as Senior Vice President, Portfolio Marketing, for a multi-billion-dollar business.
Prior to joining SAP, Barbara worked as a management consultant in London and Frankfurt, after spending several years working for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in Global Strategic Marketing. Barbara holds a master's degree in business administration from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and The University of Saarbruecken, Germany.
She serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Anita Borg Institute and is a past Board Director of the German-American Business Association, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), and SVForum for Technologists and Entrepreneurs. Barbara has been recognized by German Business Magazine Capital among the “Top 40 under 40”.
Monette Bautista holds the position of Director of Corporate Accounting at Blackline Safety, where she is responsible for the accounting strategies, procedures and analysis of the Company’s inventory and revenues. She also oversees day-to-day responsibility of the Accounts Receivable team for North America and Rest of World. Monette brings over 15 years of managerial experience in energy services, interactive digital experience design and medical equipment distribution. Prior to joining Blackline Safety, Monette was with Critical Control and Critical Mass in Calgary. Monette holds a BComm degree and is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant.
Scott Boston is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant, with over 10 years' experience as a finance leader in oil & gas, energy services and retail organizations. He leads the financial reporting team as we deliver our public company reporting requirements as well as our Environmental, Social and Governance program and reporting.
Prior to Blackline, Scott held senior finance roles at the Dilawri Group of Companies and Tesla Exploration Ltd.
Mike Brown is responsible for overseeing product management activities for several of Blackline Safety’s products. Mike has been building connected products for over 10 years. Prior to joining Blackline Safety he worked at BlackBerry in hardware development, before joining Swift Labs, an IoT Design and Consulting firm in a variety of roles including COO, Director of Sales, and Solution Architecture.
As Blackline Safety’s Director, Technology Operations, Jenna Janes is responsible for overseeing all aspects of project management for R&D. Collectively her team drives multiple concurrent projects that cross our hardware, firmware, and software teams – including updates, enhancements, and new features to our core existing products, as well as taking new product ideas from concept to launch. Prior to joining Blackline Safety, Jenna spent several years working in the media and technology sectors in California, including most recently as Head of Operations for TubeScience and Director of Operations (Business and Product) for Collide LLC.
Elisa Khuong is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant, with over 10 years' experience in accounting, finance and audit in diversified industries including manufacturing, real estate and financial services. She is responsible for the general corporate accounting functions across the globe, including the day-to-day management of the Accounting teams at Wearable Technologies and Blackline Safety Europe in the UK and France. Prior to joining Blackline, Elisa was with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a manager in their audit and assurance practice.
Simon Rich oversees the sales function for all of Europe—from business development to customer support to channel management—responsible for driving the division’s overall revenue growth. He has over 25 years of industrial safety and gas detection sales experience in progressive roles with Honeywell, Drager and ICI Chemicals.
Francina Sharma (PhD MCSE), leads the Blackline Vision team at Blackline Safety, She has experience building and leading scientific and technical teams from the ground up, focusing on transforming business requirements to leveraging data-driven actionable insights that identify new targets and monitor safety & compliance in clinical trials, health and tech operations. Dr. Sharma has a particular interest in the role that data plays in shaping and forecasting patterns innate to the dataset employed that is very commonly missed when not viewed with the right perspective and selective application tools.
Donnovan Simon is Director, Client Success at Blackline Safety where his teams' focus is to be integrally engaged with customers in all post sales processes. Their goal is to deliver outstanding experiences that optimize and expand the use of Blackline products and services.
Donnovan brings to Blackline more than 20 years of leadership experience in technology companies working in customer experience, operations, sales, technical support and more.
Prior to Blackline, Donnovan held management roles at SMART Technologies, Nureva and Zephyr Sleep Technologies here in Calgary.
He holds degrees in Communications, Information Technology and Business Administration in addition to being certified in PROSCI change management methodology.
Blair Svoboda is Director of Quality Assurance. He and his team are responsible for design, customer and factory quality. Blair has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, working with Sanmina, BW Technologies and Honeywell before joining Blackline Safety in 2019. He moved into Quality Management in 2009, focusing on new NPI process, product validation, engineering changes and RMA. Blair has his Six Sigma Black Belt and is committed to continually improving Blackline's product quality to provide world-class customer service.
Lara Swift is a Senior Director in Product Development. Prior to starting at Blackline, Lara was the CEO of Swift Labs, a Hardware Engineering Consulting company that was acquired by Blackline in 2022. Lara brings 30 years of R&D experience from Canadian tech giants BlackBerry and Northern Telecom. She is a Graduate of the University of Waterloo, with an Honours BA in Literature, and an MEng in Management Science.
Brian Wells is the Director of Research in Development at Blackline Safety and is responsible for leading the Waterloo engineering team. He brings over 12 years of hardware development experience from Blackberry and Apple. Most recently, he served as CTO of Swift Labs, a consulting firm that was acquired by Blackline in 2022.