Company Management

Brian Cannon - President
Brian Cannon, is a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of financial and operations management experience and a keen understanding of the challenges facing rapidly growing technology companies.
Brian's experience includes Chief Financial Officer of Reinvent Technology, a Vancouver based, private company that owns and manages one of the world’s largest internet domain name portfolios, and being a member of the senior management team at Crystal Decisions (now Business Objects, an SAP company), that grew the company from $10M to $305M in annual revenue over eight years. In 2003, Brian managed the successful integration of sales operations when Crystal Decisions was acquired by Business Objects in a $1.2 billion deal.

David Coombs, Director and Executive Vice-President
Mr. Coombs is an experienced business executive and investor, who has led companies of all sizes to successful growth in many industries. Dave joined Assured in 2005 and led the day-to-day activities of Assured from 2007 until June 2010, when he brought in Mr. Cannon to take over the duties of President.  Dave is passionate about building a great technology company that creates products and services that deliver unsurpassed value to customers.

Randy Beres - Executive Vice-President
Randy Beres is a senior Sales and Operations leadership executive with a 23 year background in leading diverse professional sales organizations that include inside, outside and partner/channel sales teams. Randy has a wide range of industry experience including software, IT technology, and telecommunication,s in companies ranging in size from start up to Fortune 100.
Randy was most recently Director of Sales at TELUS ; prior to which he was Vice-President of Sales at Group Telecom where he led a team of 52 Sales and Sales Engineers that delivered $175M in revenue in 2007. Randy was also a key member of the Sales Operations team that led Crystal Decisions (now Business Objects, an SAP company) through 11 straight quarters growth to annual revenues of $305 million.
 
Paul Winckers - Manager, Finance and Admin
Mr. Winckers is a professional Chartered Accountant with 10 years of financial management experience leading technology companies. Paul has been with Assured Software since 2002 when the company had five employees, and has implemented many of the systems and processes that have contributed to the growth and stability of the Company.

Christine Janzen - Manager, Customer Services
Ms. Janzen is an operational leader with more than 20 years experience developing and improving business processes in many companies.
Christine joined Assured’s senior management team in 2005 and has been a driving force in ensuring that Assured's customer services and support teams continue to evolve to meet our customers' needs. Christine is committed to learning from our customers how our products and services can better help them.

Steve Warwick – Manager, Development
Mr. Warwick is a software development expert who has 14 years experience in the software development industry.  Steve has worked with numerous companies to bring new technology and development methodologies to them.  Steve joined Assured in 2003 to lead the project team developing the company's POI product and subsequently led the development of the new Assured Complete product.  He has a passion for technology and bringing great experiences to customers using the latest technologies.