Madesco Board of Advisors

George Fuller

George Fuller has been practicing in the field of labour law for more than 30 years. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1973. He gained his initial interest and experience in labour law as counsel of the Ministry of Labour in 1974 and 1975 - a particularly active period in public sector labour law and policy development, including the granting of collective bargaining rights to the public service.

George was the Founding President of the Victoria Business Exchange and is currently a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and Vice President of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, as well as being the Co-Chair of the Chamber’s Business of Sport Committee. George also enjoys his association as a member of the Advisory Council to the BC Cancer Foundation, as well as being a member of the Council’s Marketing Committee.

Robert Small
VP & COO
Daniels Electronics Ltd

Mr. Small is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Daniels Electronics Ltd and has over 25 years of experience with delivering high quality custom-radio communications products to international markets. He has achieved impressive revenue growth, groundbreaking product development and significant US product distribution networks. He has fostered integral customer relationships with government and private industry, including the US Department of Homeland Security. A member of the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians and an active technical committee member with the US Telecommunications Industry Association for Digital Radio Standards, Robert is co-chair of the VIATeC CEO organization. He is also a member of IEEE Communications Society (COMSoC), the Radio Society of America (VE7FSN), and serves the community in various advisory/industry liaison positions with Camosun College and the University of Victoria.

Greg Caws
President
Enquisite

Mr. Greg Caws is currently serving as Chairman of the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC) and is President of Enquisite Software Inc. Mr. Caws holds an MBA (Technology Management) and a BEng (Fuels and Materials) from the Royal Military College of Canada. Greg was originally trained as an aerospace and avionic engineering officer, worked in Search and Rescue and moved to become a Transport Canada airworthiness superintendent and learning centre director.

He founded and was CEO of an MPEG software development company that was sold during the dot-com era. He acted as a senior consultant for MacDonald Dettwiler with Y2K embedded systems at did Internet Strategy for companies like Burntsand. Mr. Caws has architected solutions for the 2010 Olympic bid and complex system integration projects at TELUS. Mr. Caws is an advisor/board member of a number of high-tech companies and assists them by way of mentoring in the areas of business start-up, business planning, growth financing, product development and, exit strategy execution.

Thomas K. Tolman

Mr. Tolman has over 30 years combined managerial and technical experience in all aspects of 911, Public Safety Radio Communications systems and operations.

In addition to serving as the Director of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council Support Office, Mr. Tolman most recently served as Principle Investigator to the APCO Project 40 Project RETAINS national research initiative on 911 dispatcher staffing and retention. Mr. Tolman is a 23-year member, and past President of the Colorado Chapter of APCO. In addition to sitting on the P-25/34 digital Standards Steering Committee, he sits on the editorial advisory board of Critical Communications / Radio Resource publications. He served as Vice Chair to the FCC's 700MHz NCC Implementation Sub-Committee and is program advisor to the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE).

He is co-author of the National Institute of Justice Research report on State &Local Law Enforcement Wireless Communications Interoperability, "Can We Talk?" The Public Safety Challenge, and creator of the popular NLECTC publication "Understanding Wireless Communications in Public Safety". He is the recipient of the APCO International Presidential Award, and the National Institute of Justice National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Award for outstanding contributions in the field of public safety communications.

In addition to holding an FCC General Class Radio-Telephone license and a degree in radio/television broadcast engineering, Mr. Tolman holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He holds a Master's Degree in Technology Management from the University of Denver.