Adventes focus is in the technology sector. Our experienced advisory board influences and embraces this ever changing industry daily. These professionals are accomplished executives and community leaders with extensive contacts and networks. As members of a cohesive team, they form the foundation underlying the Adventes sales strategy and, ultimately, our mutual success.

Brad G. Fulton:
Brad is the founder and Principal of Adventes Corporation. From the beginning in 2002 his passion has been sales. He has over 20 years experience in technology sales and marketing. Prior to launching Adventes, Brad was the Regional Manager, Eastern Ontario for Avaya Communications and Lucent Technologies in charge of dealer networks. Prior to Avaya, Brad spent five years in senior sales positions with Bell Nexxia focusing on government accounts. Brad began his technology career spending ten years with Simware Inc., a local start-up software company that eventually went public, employing over 200 people.

Lori O’Neil:
Lori is a Partner at Deloitte and Touche Inc. Lori has 15 years experience of public accounting with technology-based companies. Lori is the leader of the Ottawa Office Advanced Technology Industry Practice and member of the Management Team of the Ottawa Office of Deloitte & Touche. Lori’s expertise is providing accounting, audit and business advisory services to privately held and publicly traded advanced technology companies operating globally. In addition, Lori has extensive experience with Canadian and United States securities commission reporting requirements, United States. GAP issues and IPOs.

Doug Hewson:
Doug is a Managing Partner of Axis Capital Corporation. He participates on the Board of Directors of a number of companies, including GridIron Networks Inc, AssetMetrix Inc., and a not-for-profit subsidiary of CARE Canada, Global Development Group. Before co-founding Axis, Doug was a lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais with a focus on technology law and finance. He was also in-house counsel to a publicly traded technology company. Doug is a frequent panel participant and lecturer on topics related to venture investing.

Terry S. Ansari:
Terry’s 23 years of experience in the technology industry includes sales and management positions with some of the largest information technology companies in the world, including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and currently Accenture where he leads Accenture’s Business Development efforts with the Federal Government of Canada. Terry is active in the community, where he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Ottawa Healthcare Foundation and a member of the United Way Leadership Giving Campaign. Terry belongs to numerous business associations within the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), the Ottawa Centre for Research & Innovation (OCRI), Government Opportunities Advisory Committee and the Government Technology (GTEC) Distinction Awards Judging Committee.

John McFetridge:
John is currently the Chief Technology Officer at COAST Software and has been with the company since 1999. John works with the product management team to ensure the requirements and architecture of COAST technologies is successfully delivered to market. In 1982 John was the founder and CEO of Simware Incorporated, which became one of Canada’s largest software companies. Over the past 25 years John has held senior management positions with Corel Corporation, Caravelle Networks and Messagewise. John’s passion and specialty is in software development working with startups, he has an uncanny ability to identify the needs and trends within the technology industry.