Michael Penman is a partner at Blaney McMurtry LLP and has practiced law for over 25 years. He is one of the most experienced amateur sports lawyers in Canada. He is counsel to the Greater Toronto Hockey League and has been retained by various sports organizations, including the Canadian Hockey Association and Swedish Ice Hockey Federation. Michael is a member of seven Boards of Directors, including those of the Greater Toronto Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey Federation, Nintendo of Canada Ltd., and Ferring (Pharmaceuticals) Inc.

Michael is also an experienced hockey coach and manager and holds an NCCP Intermediate level coaching certificate. He has been a delegate to eight CHA Annual General Meetings and was invited by the CHA to participate in the Open Ice Summit that was held in Toronto in August 1999 to analyze the state of hockey in Canada.

Bob Fletcher has held a 38-year career with a leading first tier logistics and e commerce company in multiple functional areas including operations, client services, marketing, information technology, and electronic commerce. Bob Fletcher is a vision-orientated individual with a proven track record of understanding client requirements and designing solutions that result in unique competitive advantages.

He is a highly sought-after speaker on e-commerce in the North American conference circuit, has authored numerous articles on key logistics and electronic commerce issues and is considered an industry expert in these fields. He is a co-founder of ProCure.com Inc. which was sold to Cyberplex, a leading Internet software development company in March 2000. At ProCure.com, he was responsible for the vision and creation of the Dell Corporation “track and trace” solution, Canada Post On-Line Stamp ordering solution and RCMP- approved on-line procurement of controlled substances on the Internet, among others.
The solution developed for the RCMP to enable secure procurement of controlled substances on the Internet was ranked one of the top three "Business Critical e Commerce" solutions in North America by Intelligent Enterprise Magazine. He is the 1997 winner of the Canadian Sports Administrator of the Year Award for development and donation of an automated registration and administration system for minor sports.

In 1995, Bob was the recipient of the EDI Corporation of the Year from the Electronic Commerce Council of Canada. He is a member of numerous industry standards committees including ebXML United Nations Electronic Business Group, American National Standards Institute (Vice-Chair), Uniform Code Council (Co-Chair), Electronic Commerce Council of Canada (Co-Chair) and the Standards Council of Canada, to name but a few. Membership in these standards committees gives the company a tremendous competitive advantage in gaining insight and influence in regulating e commerce industry standards.

James Smith has twenty years of progressive experience in operations and technology encompassing systems development, CRM strategy, database management, e-business, network, telecommunications, and project management. James’ is an IT professional with an extensive knowledge of business systems acquired from working in many sectors including, Financial, Retail, B2B and Marketing sectors.

James is currently the Vice Present Operations & Technology at Kidsfutures Inc, a new and innovative consumer loyalty program. James is responsible for Information Technolology and Production Services. James' interests include hockey, golf, and community sports such as hockey, soccer and baseball.

Tim White is the President of MitMedia Corp., a provider of corporate communication solutions. Tim has over 15 years experience in the communications industry ranging from newspaper copy editor to technical writer and web designer. Combined with his strong design and copywriting skills, Tim’s ability to integrate corporate communication strategies with new technology has resulted in powerful solutions for his clients.

During his career, Tim has created board presentations, provided speechwriting, written user documentation for software applications, and created online help programs. Most recently, he has helped develop corporate intranets, online training, and online newsletters. His clients have included Nortel, Sprint, BCE Emergis, and IBM.

Art Smith currently serves as President, CEO and founder of the Electronic Commerce Council of Canada. He participates on the Boards and Steering Committees of several Canadian and American Industry E-Commerce Initiatives for grocery, ECR (Efficient Consumer Response), health care (EHCR), general merchandise (VICS), food service (EFR), and pharmacy (ECRx). He also represents Canada at the Board of Uniform Code Council and General Assembly of EAN International. Art has enjoyed several careers including:

• Currently President and C.E.O. of Travul Consulting Inc. where he provides strategic management consulting services
• Serving corporate roles as President & CEO of Biway Stores, Executive VP of Zellers and Head of Strategic Planning for Hudson’s Bay
• Founder of several high tech companies which have been sold and currently serves as advisor to venture capital boards
• Former consultant with international renowned firms including Andersen Consulting and A T Kearney
• Lecturer at York University for 10 years and acting Professional Facilitator; and
• Member of the advisory committee for Conference Board of Canada.

Over his career, Art has been involved with leading edge of technology, inventing and implementing CLUB Z, launching Telaction, an Interactive Home Shopping Service and launching Catalina Electronic Marketing services.

Kevin Dean was the Chief Technical Architect at ProCure.com Inc. (“ProCure”). He was responsible for the overall design of ProCure’s suite of products for the e-commerce ASP market. His responsibilities included database design, business object architecture, technical implementation design, documentation, and deployment design. In addition to the design role, Kevin was also responsible for training ProCure’s programmers in object-oriented programming in Java and distributed object programming with CORBA.

Partly as a result of the technology developed by Kevin and his group, ProCure.com Inc. was sold to Cyberplex, a leading Internet software development company, in March 2000. He was also a Route Accounting Software Developer at Hostess Frito-Lay (“HFL”) where he designed and developed a replacement for Hostess Frito-Lay’s handheld-based Route Accounting software as part of HFL’s Y2K remediation effort. The application of the software resulted in significant costs savings to HFL in its IT operations and inventory management systems. He has authored several articles on programming techniques and operating system constructs. Mr. Dean obtained a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics (Computer Option) from Queen’s University in 1990.

David Tumber is a graduate of McMaster University with an Honours BA in Economics. David is also the Executive Director of the EtobicokeKangaroos Australian Rules Football Club

An avid sports enthusiast, David is a member of the Canadian National Australian Rules Football Club.

Keith Watson has worked in the Information Technology sector for over 15 years and has focused on Electronic Commerce for the past eight years.

Keith’s leading edge programming skills have helped develop important internet-based applications for major corporations, including Canada Post and Dell Computers.

Mike Eggleton is the President of Sandy Beach Technologies, a leading provider of internet technologies including SPAM R.E.C (Anti-Spam). Sandy Beach Technologies also provides web site, DNS, CVS, and email hosting.

Mike has more than ten years of experience working with corporate security and networking infrastructures.