Bryan McLeod
Chief Executive Officer

Bryan McLeod, CEO of Storage Appliance Corporation is an accomplished entrepreneur with a keen understanding of what it takes to establish new businesses and quickly build sales channels that successfully deliver products and services to consumers.  His first two technology start-ups one in consumer electronics and the other in medical electronic went on to become leaders in their respective markets.

In 2004, Bryan sold Intrigue Technologies (inventors of the Harmony universal remote control) to Logitech Inc. Afterwards, Bryan joined the Logitech team to manage the Harmony remote control business. Harmony currently plays a central role in Logitech’s digital home strategy and is a promising growth engine for the company.

Prior to becoming involved in consumer electronics, Bryan was an owner and operated a medical technology manufacturer, XLTEK, that developed advanced neuro-diagnostic instruments and software used by over 1,300 hospitals in the US, including six of the top 10 neurology and neurosurgery hospitals.  XLTEK is currently a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock exchange.

Bryan began his business career as a Canadian Chartered Accountant with a specialization in auditing and Canadian and International Tax law. He also holds degrees in both Commerce and Economics from the University of Toronto.

Bryan is working with his team at Storage Appliance Corporation to develop and market “ClickFree” storage product specifically designed so any consumer can perform easy backup for all their digital files.

Ian Collins
President

Ian Collins, President of Storage Appliance Corporation, has spent the last 15 years founding technology ventures. Ian started his career as an engineer in the wireless industry working for Canada’s largest mobile operators. Ian founded his first company, Wyrex Communications Inc. in 1993. Wyrex provided engineering services to wireless operators around the world during the 2G buildouts of the 90s. Wyrex grew to over 50 engineers with a focus on back office network deployment and planning. During that time Ian founded his second company, Wysdom Inc. with the mission to “take dotcoms wireless”. Wysdom grew during the boom years of 1998 to 2000 with over $80 million of venture capital to more than 300 employees and boasted many of the top dotcoms as customers. Ian also founded another company in 1999 called Web2Mobile, one of the world’s first wireless content portals.

After a short retirement in 2001/2002, Ian founded Mobile Diagnostix in 2003. Mobile Diagnostix was focused on solving the problem of mobile data customer care facing the world’s wireless operators. With it’s flagship product SmartCare, Mobile Diagnostix provided customer service solutions to some of the world’s top carriers. After selling Mobile Diagnostix in 2004 Ian founded Storage Appliance Corporation in 2005, with the intent of solving consumer’s backup nightmares. Storage Appliance Corporation developed the world’s first line of Clickfree backup products where no interaction was required by customers to fully backup their personal computers.

Jeff Brunet
Chief Technology Officer

An expert in software development and bringing new technologies to market, Jeff is our Chief Technology Officer at Storage Appliance Corporation. With over 14 years of proven programming, architecture, systems integration, and technology management experience, Jeff brings to the table an in-depth understanding of software development and the unique challenges in making new technologies successful in the start-up world.

Before joining Storage Appliance, Jeff served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer with Bitfone Corporation where he was responsible for all Engineering and Professional Services around the company’s extremely complex product portfolio. While at Bitfone Jeff also led the ground up creation of a highly successful 100+ person development team in Beijing China.  Before joining Bitfone, Jeff served as Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer with Mobile Diagnostix Inc. He was responsible for all aspects of the architecture and implementation of the company's flagship product, SmartCare, a customer care and remote diagnostics tool for mobile service providers. Mobile Diagnostix was successfully acquired by Bitfone Corporation in 2004.

Prior to joining Mobile Diagnostix, Jeff acted as a senior technology consultant to Bell Mobility where he was responsible for the technical analysis of a 100 million dollar billing and systems consolidation project.  Previous to working with Bell Mobility, he held the position of Chief Solutions Architect with Amdocs Canada. Prior to Amdocs Jeff was a Senior Solutions Architect for Solect Technology Group which was acquired by Amdocs for $1.2 Billion USD. From 1995 to 1998 he served as Technical Director at AracNet Internet Systems - one of Canada' s pioneering Internet Service Providers.

Jeff serves on the advisory board of a number of technology companies and lives in Richmond Hill, Canada.

Gary Connell
Vice President, Business Development

Gary provides advanced marketing, strategic planning and business development for Storage Appliance Corporation.  He has spent 25 years in business to consumer markets representing 9 years in retail marketing and 16 years in the consumer and wireless technology sectors. Gary has forged numerous industry partnerships and alliances, and has extensive experience in the development of new products and markets.

Prior to joining Storage Appliance Corporation, Gary served as Vice President, Commercial Division with Sharp Electronics where he launched Sharp into the Digital Signage market, as well, introduced the award winning Plasmacluster Air Purification technology into Canada.  Also while at Sharp, Gary managed the Consumer Division where he launched the now industry leading Aquas line of LCD TV.

Prior to joining Sharp, Gary was General Manager of Sony Ericsson Canada.  Gary joined the Sony and Ericsson joint venture company after having served as Vice President, Consumer Division with Ericsson Canada.

Earlier Gary was Vice President, Communication Group with Sanyo Electric. While at Sanyo Gary spearheaded a Joint Marketing Agreement with Nortel whereby Sanyo would manufacture and market Nortel branded retail products.

Gary is a past Chairman, Communication Research Group with the Electronic Manufacturing Association of Canada.

Alex Lemelev
Vice President, Development

Alex Lemelev leads research and development at Storage Appliance Corporation. Alex provides over 11 years of experience in the design and development of system-level software for the Telecom, Networking and Communications industries. Alex has staffed, planned and managed software development, testing and technical support teams for a number of companies.

He was previously in charge of client development at Bitfone Corporation. Alex led the device agent development team across a number of innovative mobile operating systems, such as Symbian, Windows CE, Palm, J2ME devices at Mobile Diagnostix, acquired by Bitfone in 2004.

Earlier, at Lucent Technologies Israel (formerly Chromatis Networks which was acquired by Lucent Technologies for $4.7 billion in 2000), Alex was responsible for the ATE Software Development team for metro optical networking systems. After merging with Lucent, Alex became the primary integrator between the Israel and US teams in charge of the technologies merging and integration.

Alex earned his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Jordan Pan
General Manager, Storage Appliance Corporation China

Jordan is the General Manager of Storage Appliance Corp. China and the Vice President of Storage Appliance Corp. China Development Centre (CDC) He is responsible for China Operation and technical management of product development in CDC.

Jordan has a broad base of experience in technical management and has previously held roles across Professional Services, R&D, QA, and Project Management with Amdocs Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Mobile Diagnostix Inc. and Bitfone Corp.. Most recently he was the Director of Global Project Management with Bitfone Corporation where he was instrumental in building a development team in China and implementing project management and development processes to enable multi-site development to function efficiently.

Ian Locke
Managing General Partner

Ian has over two decades of executive management and deep operational experience in the technology sector. Ian is passionate about working closely with portfolio companies in order to help them build and execute their visions.

Prior to Jefferson, Ian was the President and COO of DocSpace Corporation (acquired by Critical Path) (NASDAQ:CPTH). He served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide and North American Alliances at Netscape Communication Inc., and prior to that he held sales executive positions at Oracle Corp.

Ian currently serves on the Board of Directors of Avotus Corporation; BorderWare Technologies Inc.; Storage Appliance Corporation; Accept Software Corporation and the Rotman School Advancement Board of the University of Toronto.