OUR TEAM

As someone who loves to stay active and challenged, Hubert Lau has grown several successful technology companies with customers in North America, Asia and Europe.  Hubert is often referred to as the “Technology Entrepreneur” and has worked with more than 1000 organizations to help them grow by leveraging technologies to maximize business opportunities.

Mr. Harper obtained the Chartered Accountant (CA) designation after graduating from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. degree, and currently is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of British Columbia. Leveraging his previous experience, over the past four years, Mr. Harper has worked as the CFO for multiple public companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange across a broad spectrum of industries. He brings to TrustBIX a wealth of public company compliance and financial reporting expertise.

Deborah Wilson is Chief Industry Engagement Officer of TrustBIX Inc. Her role is industry engagement in agriculture, data, agtech, sustainability, and traceability. She has a long history of championing the farmers, ranchers, and the agricultural industry. She believes validation of claims and improved sustainability practices are the next challenges in the agri-food industry that will be solved by technology. She is a well-known public speaker on these topics. Deborah is on her second term on the National Council for the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB), serving on several committees over the last 6 years. Currently she is serving on two advisory committees for the National Index for Agrifood Performance, which TrustBIX is a partner in.

Wilson has served on both the National and Provincial Boards of the Canadian Agri-marketing Association, receiving their Honor Roll award in 2013. As a lifelong cattle producer, her family operation has used technology and data for production improvement and increased profitability since the late 1980’s. They were the largest Registered Charolais program in Canada, and the second largest foreign registerer of Charolais in the USA in the 80’s and 90’s; along with running the largest single breed bull test in Canada at that time.

As someone who loves to stay active and challenged, Hubert Lau has grown several successful technology companies with customers in North America, Asia and Europe.  Hubert is often referred to as the “Technology Entrepreneur” and has worked with more than 1000 organizations to help them grow by leveraging technologies to maximize business opportunities.

Mr. Frank Yang is an accomplished entrepreneur and food processing engineer. Frank's entrepreneurial spirit led him to create a telecom wholesale company in 2002, which was the first post-pay long-distance company in the Chinese community. In 2009, he acquired Internet Altima, and grew revenues from $280,000 in 2010 to $33 million in 2018 through both organic growth and acquisitions. In 2022, Mr. Yang successfully sold Altima to a leading Canadian Telecommunications company.

Mr. Nathan Mison is a Founding Partner and President of Diplomat Consulting. As the former Vice President of Government Stakeholder Relations and Fire & Flower, he was one of the first employees of the company, helping guide it through legalization and into its place as Canada's largest independent cannabis retail company. Mr. Mison is the co-chair of the National Cannabis Working group for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and co-chair of the Ontario Cannabis Policy Committee for the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. Founder and former chair of the Alberta Cannabis Council and the International Cannabis Council with the International Chamber of Commerce and BIAC of the OECD. Mr. Mison is on the executive Board for the FureFly Institute and and is the former President of the Edmonton Valley Zoo Development Society. 

David Schuster is an investment management professional with over 40 years in the finance industry. David was a founding partner of Adroit Investment Management Ltd., an independent Alberta-based investment portfolio management firm. During his tenure at Adroit, the firm grew from zero assets under management to $1.25 billion. In 2008, controlling interest of the company was sold to the Canadian Western Bank, its first foray into the investment management business. David continued as the President and CEO of the firm until his retirement in 2014. Prior to the founding of Adroit, David held several positions at Telus Corporation (1980-1993). He was the Director of Pension Investments, responsible for the management of $2.3 billion in Telus pension fund, sinking fund and insurance fund assets. David led a team of investment professionals as head of the Pension Investment Department. He held various positions of increasing responsibility within Telus Corporation including Director of Investor Relations and Portfolio Manager of Equities. Schuster was responsible for creating the equity investment style for the fund and built the Canadian equity department. He led the fund’s foray into international and U.S. investments and established their foreign investment approach.

Tom Ogaranko leads transformational change with high performing teams focused on complex challenges. Over his 26-year career, he has founded, built and exited multiple technology companies in advanced technology industries. He has advised the Governments of Canada and France and several Canadian Provincial Governments on innovation policy and has been involved in structuring the three crown agencies involved in research, innovation and technology development. Tom has assembled and structured $1B of investment funds for stimulating and growing innovative capacity for public and private clients. Tom is a frequent advisor to the Government on policies to grow ICT, biotechnology, genomics and cleantech sectors. Tom has also actively advised some of the leading innovative companies in Canada's pharmaceutical, energy, mining, telecommunications and technology sectors.