Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

David is the President of Business Arts and has been since its inception.  David is also the Founder of Arius3D and Lead Director of Gedex Inc.

David graduated with a M.B.A. from The University of Western Ontario where he earned scholarships and an exchange student position with Erasmus University in the Netherlands.  While living in Holland, David also consulted to Van Nelle foods and The Vara, a Dutch media organization.

Upon graduation, David joined The Bank of Nova Scotia where he rose through various positions in International Corporate & Government Banking and the Risk Management side of Treasury.  He then joined Bank of America to head their Risk Management and Derivatives operation in Canada. 

David and his family have helped found and built some of Canada’s most innovative technology companies including Sciex, Imax and a part of what grew into BCE Emergis.  This latter firm, Magic Online, was Chaired by David throughout its turnaround, growth (including a scaling of its size via both organic growth and acquisition) and sale to the firm that later evolved into BCE Emergis.  David has been involved in the turnaround and growth of several other Canadian successes including Arius3D the world’s most advanced 3-dimensional color imaging solution.  David is also Lead Director of Gedex Inc. the world’s most advanced corporation focused on gravity gradiometry.

 David has served as a director of a number of companies (Both Canadian and American) as well as Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music.  He has several financial designations and lives on a small, Ontario Christmas tree farm with his wife, Kathy and three children.