• Sean Krakiwsky
    President & CEO, Founder

    • Nanalysis is Mr. Krakiwsky’s third tech start-up over a 20 year period, raising over $25M in equity funding for those companies. Previously he founded and built a high performance computing company called Acceleware (TSXV:AXE) providing software solutions to harness the parallel processing capabilities of multi-core GPUs/CPUs for the Electronic Design and Oil & Gas industries. Mr. Krakiwsky has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey club in 1986 – he played in their farm system for two years, before going back to school in 1990.

    Randall McRae
    CFO

    • Mr. McRae has over 15 years of experience in public and private companies, professional services firms and as a successful entrepreneur. In 2007 he received his BComm in Accounting from the University of Calgary, and in 2010 his Chartered Accountant designation. Mr. McRae later completed the CPA Canada In-Depth Taxation program and was recognized as one of the top nine students nationally in his class. He was most recently a Senior Manager in a large accounting firm and had previously co-founded a successful technology focused professional services firm as well as held a senior role in a publicly traded oilfield services company. In his spare time, he enjoys performing in a local jazz orchestra and spending time with his family.

    Julien Muller
    CTO

    • Mr. Muller has 16+ years of experience in the NMR/MRI technology. After obtaining a diploma in electronic and system engineering from INSA Strasbourg, he started with RS2D in 2004, studying and designing RS2D's first NMR spectrometer solution. From here, he designed a custom MRI product using a superconducting cryogen-free magnet and high field NMR console. In 2018, Mr. Mueller released the 4th generation of NMR/MRI spectrometer, providing the latest FPGA technology to the whole magnetic resonance product profile. He enjoys fishing, hiking, playing music, photography, and sports. He was on the French university basketball championship team in 2002.

    Neal Gallagher
    VP Product Development

    • Mr. Gallagher completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has over 10 years of experience in Computational Electromagnetics, Design for Manufacturability and CNC machining. In his spare time he enjoys Ski touring, Mountain biking, Hockey, and Golf. He is our defending Ping-Pong champ.

    Nick MacKenzie
    VP Sales

    • Mr. MacKenzie completed his BSc and MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Calgary. He has over 12 years experience in laboratory capital equipment sales, from inside sales to sales management. He has been based at the US office since 2016, driving sales growth, developing sales talent and expanding business channels for the company. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, as well as mountain biking, paddleboarding and playing guitar.

    Dr. Heather Phillips
    VP Corporate Services & Strategy

    • Dr. Heather Phillips holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Dalhousie University. She has 15 years of experience including in the areas of technology commercialization, strategic intellectual property management, supply chain, health & safety, and facilities management. Heather enjoys spending time with her family, as well as skiing and hiking in the mountains. 

    Dr. Susanne Riegel
    VP Marketing and Product Manager

    • Dr. Riegel has a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University in main group chemistry and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in Organometallic Chemistry. With over 14 years of NMR experience, she has worked in low-field NMR application development and validation with numerous research publications and presentations at international science conferences. She enjoys traveling, photography and being outdoors, whether that be golfing, running, biking or hiking.

  • Chairman of the Board
    Martin Burian
    Managing Director, Investment Banking at RCI Capital Group

    • Mr. Burian holds ICD.D (Institute of Corporate Directors), and Chartered Professional Accountant designations. He has a 30-year career in investment banking, is currently Managing Director at RCI Capital Group and held similar senior positions at Haywood Securities, Bolder Investment Partners and Canaccord Capital. Mr. Burian is an independent member of several other public company boards as well as privately-held Heffel Gallery Limited where he is also part-time CFO.

    Werner Gartner
    CMA and Technology Investor

    • Mr. Gartner has over 25 years executive/board experience with technology based businesses, including NovAtel Inc., Hemisphere GNSS Inc., 4iiii Innovation Inc, Psyko Audio Labs Inc. and Novariant Inc. He is a member of the A100, an organization composed of technology company founders and entrepreneurs focused on growing the Alberta technology sector. Mr. Gartner received a B.Sc. from Western University in Ontario and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

    Dr. Michal Okoniewski
    Acceleware, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder

    • Dr. Okoniewski has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University, Gdansk, is a fellow of IEEE and is a Professor for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. Michal is a renowned expert in applied electrodynamics and RF/antenna engineering, with a proven history of developing leading-edge scientific solutions for the electronic, medical and energy industries. Michal has pioneered the field of hardware acceleration of computational electromagnetics, authoring over 350 technical publications and patents. His GPU accelerated FDTD solver, for example, revolutionized the engineering of electronic devices and are being applied to the energy industry for the production of heavy oils in unconventional reservoirs.

    Jennifer Stubbs
    CPA, CFO of Flint Corp.

    • Ms. Stubbs is a Chartered Professional Accountant, with 30 years of experience as a financial professional, and she holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. Ms. Stubbs started her career at KPMG, and went on to hold financial roles in various industries, including engineering, manufacturing, and energy infrastructure, including an 11 year stint at Pembina Pipeline Corporation.

    Dr. René Lenggenhager
    Co-CEO, bNovate Technologies SA

    • Dr. Lengggenhager is an experienced CEO, Group Head and General Manager with a successful career in leading global technology companies, including at Bruker Biospin, COMET, Mettler Toledo and Siemens. René holds a PhD from ETH in Switzerland and an MBA from University of St. Gallen. In addition, he holds professional certifications from MIT Sloan School in Digital Business Strategy/AI, University of St. Gallen in Swiss Board School, IMD Lausanne in Orchestrating Winning Performance, and INSEAD Fontainebleau in Advanced Industrial Marketing Strategy. During his career of over 35 years, Dr. Lenggenhager has amassed a tremendous amount of experience in all aspects of scaling industrial technology organizations, and now has keen interest in assisting start-up companies create value and grow into successful world-class businesses.

    Sean Krakiwsky
    President & Chief Executive Officer, Founder

    • Nanalysis is Mr. Krakiwsky’s third tech start-up over a 20 year period, raising over $25M in equity funding for those companies. Previously he founded and built a high performance computing company called Acceleware (TSXV:AXE) providing software solutions to harness the parallel processing capabilities of multi-core GPUs/CPUs for the Electronic Design and Oil & Gas industries. Mr. Krakiwsky has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey club in 1986 – he played in their farm system for two years, before going back to school in 1990.