It's our people who make the difference.

Kevin Ford was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in April 2015. Prior to becoming Calian's CEO, Kevin served as Calian's Business and Technology Services Division President for over 4 years.

"Teamwork, integrity and commitment are values that have guided me throughout my career and continue to drive me today" says Kevin. "Calian is in a unique position to leverage a solid foundation and I am excited about our future potential. We have strong diverse services offering with the proven capability to deliver both domestically and globally".

Kevin's enthusiastic leadership style and team building skills have created a motivated environment in which total customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal. He focuses his considerable energy and talents working with the Calian management team on execution of the companies four pillar growth framework of customer retention, diversification, innovation and continuous improvement.

Prior to joining Calian, Kevin has worked in professional services for over 30 years, including 11 years at IBM as a Partner in Global Business Services.

Patrick Houston is a Chartered Professional Accountant with more than 15 years of experience and an extensive background in corporate finance, international operations, mergers and acquisitions and public markets.

As CFO, he oversees the accounting, business support, financial planning and analysis, treasury and tax functions at Calian. Patrick places an emphasis on the continuous development of a finance function which enables the Company to achieve its profitable growth ambitions, and maintaining a high level of integrity and transparency.

Prior to joining Calian in January 2019, Patrick began his career in public accounting with Deloitte, before moving on to DragonWave, a Canadian based high-tech company listed on the Nasdaq and TSX.

Prior to joining Calian, Michele held senior marketing, sales, and operations roles at Microsoft. Most recently as Chief of Staff - Modern Workplace Global Sales, where she oversaw sales operations for the global technical sales team. Most of Michele's tenure at Microsoft was focused on partnering with government organizations to utilize technology to accomplish their mission, including progress towards UN sustainable development goals, and smart city initiatives. This focus was maintained through her leadership of the global government marketing efforts, and later as Managing Director of Microsoft’s federal government sales practice.

Prior to her time in the US, Michele was a product marketing lead and competitive analyst for Ottawa, Canada-based technology start-ups; guiding products from initial design specifications, through development, production and deployment. A graduate of Clarkson University (New York, USA), Ms Bedford holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Management & Marketing.

As Calian's President of IT and Cyber Solutions, Sandra Cote has been responsible for the development and delivery of services that aid our customers in achieving maximum success from their information technology infrastructure. Our goal is to deliver expertise and products to our customers that harness the significant power from their IT investments. For Sandra, the Calian customer experience is always top of mind. Sandra believes in driving deep relationships with customers and partners that are ultimately empowered by the talented people on her team.

Sandra's broad range of sales and management skills were honed over a 30 year period working for various IT-focused companies, including SAP, Sybase and Digital Equipment. Sandra stays current with emerging trends in the information technology space, through active participation in the Information Technology Association of Canada.

Sacha is an Ottawa-based leader with an excellent understanding of today’s technology. He has more than 20 years of experience working in technology for both start-ups and large multinational organizations, such as IBM, Blackberry and CGI. He has held a variety of leadership and technology roles ranging from software developer and management consultant to head of product management and R&D and general manager. His expertise lies in leading SaaS innovators towards achieving escape velocity, recurring revenue growth and profitability.

Sacha is a co-founder of Kandy.io and a recipient of the 2019 Forty Under 40 award from the Ottawa Business Journal and Ottawa Board of Trade. He’s passionate about building high performance cultures and grooming the next generation of leaders.

Sacha holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer-Systems Engineering from Carleton University. He is a self-proclaimed UCaaS/CCaaS/CPaaS evangelist and a regular keynote speaker at industry conferences including Perspectives, Enterprise Connect, SaaS North and the Gartner Summit.

Sacha’s technology background and experience in professional services and SaaS make him an excellent choice for Calian’s ITCS business.

Seann Hamer is Calian’s first Chief Technlology Officer and is responsible for developing, executing and communicating our customer facing technology roadmap and driving our innovation agenda. He is the advisor to the senior leadership team on product development, acquisitive growth strategies and R&D priorities including the Calian Innovation Playbook.

Mr. Hamer has over 35 years of experience in the satellite and cable networks industries as a result of numerous technical and business positions he has held over his career at Calian. He previously held dual roles as the VP, Communications Products and VP, Marketing and Development in the Calian Advanced Technologies division. He was a driving force in the creation of a successful and growing products business.

At the heart of Calian’s long-term growth is its people. Under Sue’s leadership Calian’s HR team is focused on developing and executing a talent management strategy in support of the Company’s overall business plan and strategic direction.

Sue joined Calian in 1999, gaining progressive management experience and a deep understanding of Calian’s diverse business by working within its service lines. She joined the Human Resources team in 2014 and drove key HR initiatives such as leadership development, business unit partnership and compensation strategies. Sue has distinguished herself as a trusted thought partner, change champion and devoted employee engagement advocate; she accomplishes this through a fierce desire to bring out the best in people. Having played key roles in integrating acquisitions, she seeks to unlock employee potential and strengthen Calian’s brand as an employer of choice.

A University of Waterloo alumnus, Sue advocates for performance excellence, collaborative work environments, and people development through strong leadership and succession planning. Sue was appointed CHRO in 2019.

Jerry has over 35 years of experience in management at Calian and other high-tech companies in the Ottawa region. Since joining Calian in 1992, he has held a number of leadership positions, including Director of Engineering, Vice President, Outsourcing, Vice President, Operations and Vice President, Training. Each of these roles required a focus on performance excellence, customer satisfaction, and service offering evolution. As CIO, Jerry brings this same focus to Calian Group Ltd. by appropriately integrating enterprise risk management, process management and information technology. These enablers allow Calian to achieve growth targets while maintaining its reputation for delivery excellence.

As President of Calian Health, Gordon McDonald leads one of Canada's largest national health services organizations which, for more than 14 years, has managed healthcare professionals and health programs as well as primary care and occupational health clinics. Gordon is focused on helping customers deliver and manage high-quality health care services for long-term, short-term, cyclical or temporary health care services. A professional engineer, he has over 27 years of experience in engineering, IT, management, health services and business development.

Gordon joined Calian's Health Services team in 2016 and assumed the role of Director as well as Program Manager for Calian’s Health Services Support Contract for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). He led Calian's successful bid for the Health Care Provider Requirements contract to provide health care services for the CAF, RCMP and Veterans Affairs Canada, and subsequently assumed the role of Service Delivery Manager for that contract in September 2017.

Gordon assumed the role of Vice President in 2019 and that of President in 2020. He is responsible for Calian's Health Services operations, with a team of over 1,000 health care providers, operations managers and client delivery personnel across Canada.

Patrick joined SED (now Advanced Technologies) in 1985 after completing an honors degree in Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. SED became a part of Calian in 1990. Throughout his extensive career within the organization, it was the variety of technical challenges, the commitment to our customers, and the opportunity for travel world-wide, that spurred him to grow in his career. Starting as a software developer on Canada’s Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking program, he quickly realized importance of the work we do in this organization and of its potential for growth. Through progressive roles in the organization Patrick’s responsibilities grew until he became president of Advanced Technologies in 2012.

“We make a difference for our customers every day,” says Patrick Thera, “this drives our commitment to excellence, our innovation and the support that we demonstrate as a team.”

Headquartered in Saskatoon, SK, Patrick has grown an amazing multi-discipline team of engineers, technologists and production staff, in offices across Canada and Europe, capable of taking on the most difficult technical challenges.

Don is a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) with a passion for learning, technology and innovation. He brings learning industry expertise from national and international markets and has extensive business experience helping clients innovate learning, close competency gaps and achieve and maintain compliance.

Don joins Calian understanding the learning and development landscape beyond the company’s current markets. He has run programs for pharma, publishing, telecom and oil and gas, and has large private enterprise experience having worked on the learning programs of many Global clients.

Throughout his career, Don has undertaken visiting faculty engagements at universities in Canada, the United States and Ireland, and has conducted research on next-generation learning including gamification, augmented reality and knowledge engineering. Don was CEO of Mosaic Technologies before serving as Director of Information and Knowledge Management for Suncor Energy from 2009 to 2015, and then Chief Learning Strategist for Tata Interactive Systems until the end of 2017.