Mark Hemphill

Founder and CEO

Mark founded ScreenScape during his time as Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Prior to joining UPEI, Mark enjoyed a decade of software industry experience that spanned both technical and managerial roles. He has held positions with German software giant SAP AG™, with leading business to business eCommerce services provider Ariba Inc.™, and with managed services provider Emergis™. Mark shares his thoughts on ScreenScape, digital signage and events on the company Blog.

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Rob Binns

Chief Financial Officer

Rob has held a number of senior management roles in both financial and operational capacities. Prior to joining ScreenScape he was Chief Operating Officer of Diagnostic Chemicals, Diagnostics Division and became General Manager Genzyme Diagnostics PEI Inc. when his operating unit was acquired by Genzyme Corporation in 2007. Prior to joining Diagnostic Chemicals he was Chief Financial Officer of iWave Information Systems. Rob is a Chartered Accountant and has also practiced as a public accountant.

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Mark Binns

Chief Revenue Officer

Mark Binns has over 18 years of experience building customer-driven sales and marketing strategies. Mark has founded, built, and sold two consulting companies that provided strategic advice on customer acquisition and revenue growth to Fortune 1000 technology companies including RIM, Cisco and Rogers.

Mark is a Dean’s Honors graduate of the Ivey MBA program and Graduate of the Computer Science Honors program at Acadia University. Mark has led his companies to PROFIT HOT 50 and PROFIT HOT 100 awards, and was nominated by the Dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business for the prestigious business award of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40”.

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Mark Sambrooke

Chief Product Officer

Mark has over 18 years experience building professional software applications. Raised in the Atlantic provinces and educated at Mt.Allison University in Philosophy and Computer Science, he later spent a decade working in the booming Silicon Valley software industry. While in California he worked as a software developer and product manager with global leaders in the software industry including SAP and Salesforce.com. Mark is now back on his native PEI where he serves as Chief Product Officer at ScreenScape Networks, responsible for leading the teams that design and deliver ScreenScape’s groundbreaking digital signage Internet service. Keep up with Mark on the ScreenScape Blog.

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Mark Hemphill

Chairman and CEO

Mark founded ScreenScape during his time as Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Prior to joining UPEI, Mark enjoyed a decade of software industry experience that spanned both technical and managerial roles. He has held positions with German software giant SAP AG™, with leading business to business eCommerce services provider Ariba Inc.™, and with managed services provider Emergis™.

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Mark Healy

Director

Mark Healy is the Executive Director of Executive Education at Ivey Business School in London and Toronto. Mark also holds number of other positons including President at MHC Group, a strategic marketing consultancy, and Brand & Marketing Advisor at The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. Previously, Mark was a partner in a management consulting firm, and also served as an advertising executive. Mark lives with his wife Charlotte, his daughters Evangeline and Imogen, and his bulldog McDuff near Toronto.

Bernd Petak

Director

Bernd Petak is an entrepreneur, advisor, mentor, corporate director, consultant and investment professional to early and mid-stage internet-driven technology companies and their investors. Bernd finished ten years at Deloitte as a partner responsible for the firm’s regional strategy and operations practice, leaving the firm to found his first startup, a computer game development studio. Since 2006, Bernd works with a investment firms, strategic acquirers and venture capital organizations providing due diligence and investment management services. Bernd has also provided strategy and operations advice to numerous technology companies including acting as formal advisor, COO, CFO or CEO to several.

Ron Keefe, LL.B, CPA,CA,MBA,ICD.D

Director

Ron Keefe is an investor, mentor and the former CEO of BioVectra Inc., an innovative player in the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Keefe is also the CEO of the Regis Duffy BioScience Fund Inc., a private venture fund targeting science based businesses. Keefe is counsel to Stewart McKelvey, an Atlantic Canada law firm and Chairman of Synapse Inc., the technology transfer company for the University of Prince Edward Island.

Mr. Keefe previously held the position of senior partner Stewart McKelvey. He is a past Director and Chairman of the Maritime Electric Company Limited, a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. and a current member and past Chairman of the Board of the PEI BioAlliance Inc., a company dedicated to the advancement of the bioscience sector of Prince Edward Island’s economy. He is also a past Chairman of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, an independent think-tank dedicated to economic progress in Atlantic Canada. He is a past member of the BIOTECanada Board of Directors and a member of the board of governors of UPEI and the Holland College Foundation. He is Past-President of the United Way of Prince Edward Island, and a former Director of the Bank of Canada.