Ross Video adds Debbie Weinstein and Jim Roche to its Board of Directors

Debbie Weinstein and Jim Roche join the Board of Directors of Ross Video. Its CEO, David Ross, highlights that “they are both well-known and highly experienced corporate directors, and we look forward to them guiding us in the next phase of growth and evolution of Ross as a company.”

Weinstein has been a co-founder and partner of LaBarge Weinstein LLP, a national business law firm based in Ottawa, Ontario, since 1997. Debbie is a director of OpenText Corporation and has served since December 2009, where she is also Chair of Governance and serves on the Compensation Committee. Previously, Debbie has served on the boards of directors of numerous public companies listed on the NYSE, Nasdaq and TSX.

Su formación jurídica está especializada en finanzas corporativas, derecho de valores, fusiones y adquisiciones y representación de derecho empresarial de empresas públicas y privadas, principalmente en industrias de crecimiento basadas en el conocimiento. Antes de fundar LaBarge Weinstein, Debbie Weinstein fue socia directora de la oficina de Ottawa del bufete nacional Blakes, Cassels & Graydon, donde ejerció de 1990 a 1997 en Ottawa, y en Toronto de 1985 a 1987. Debbie también forma parte de varios consejos de administración sin ánimo de lucro.

Ha sido reconocida en múltiples ocasiones por Martindale-Hubbell (EE.UU.) con la máxima calificación posible tanto en capacidad jurídica como en normas éticas. Además, Weinstein es licenciada en Derecho por la Osgoode Hall Law School de la Universidad de York.

Jim Roche

Con una experiencia como empresario y líder de múltiples empresas de alto crecimiento, Roche actualmente dirige Stratford Group, un dinámico negocio de consultoría de gestión internacional y ThinkRF, una empresa de tecnología inalámbrica 5G de rápido crecimiento.

After graduating with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Queen's University, he was a founding member of Newbridge Networks, a communications equipment supplier, where he held increasingly senior positions as the company went public and grew to more than $1 billion in annual revenue before being sold to Alcatel for more than $7 billion.

He then co-founded Tundra Semiconductor, a communications chip company, taking it public, growing it to a value of more than $1.5 billion, and leading the company as president and CEO through multiple acquisitions and double-digit annual revenue and profit growth.

Jim Roche has served on numerous public, private and non-profit boards of directors. He is currently president of Ballard Power Systems, a public clean technology company, and president of Elentra Corp., a privately held provider of healthcare education platforms. He serves on the boards of Information Services Corporation, a public data logging company, and PureFacts, a private financial technology provider.

Active in the community as a volunteer and consultant, he has worked with CHEO, the Ottawa Children's Hospital, Invest Ottawa, the city's technology-focused economic development agency, and many other organizations. He is a member of TEC Canada, the Institute of Corporate Directors and CMC-Canada.

Jim has served on multiple public, private and non-profit boards, and in addition to being active in the community as a volunteer and advisor, Jim has worked with CHEO, the Ottawa Children's Hospital, Invest Ottawa, the city's technology-focused economic development agency, and many other organizations. He is a member of TEC Canada, the Institute of Corporate Directors and CMC-Canada.