Corporate: About Us
 


Athentech Technologies Inc is a Canadian Private company owned & controlled by the inventor & several businessmen.

The people behind Athentech are:

Brian James – Inventor

James Malcolm – President
Jim conceived of and built the company AccuMap – a company that revolutionized the Canadian oil and gas industry. AccuMap enabled geologists, engineers, and land personnel to do in twenty minutes what used to take six weeks. Jim received recognition as Entrepreneur of the Year and City Businessman of the Year while AccuMap itself was twice a finalist for Alberta’s Science and Technology Awards.

Bob McKenzie - Businessman
Eric Hobson – Businessman

Bob and Eric were co-leaders of what became Canada’s largest oil and natural gas trader – Northridge Canada. After selling Northridge to TransCanada Pipelines for an undisclosed sum of money, Bob and Eric built Canada’s first transnational fiber optic network – MetroNet. MetroNet was sold to AT&T Canada for $7 billion.

Samuel Lau, P.Eng. - VP, Research & Development
Samuel has developed passion in science and math since childhood. Because of his love for classical mechanics, he first pursued his engineering education in the University of Alberta. After he obtained the degree with distinction in Civil Engineering, he went on to pursue his degree in Computer Science. During this period, Samuel found computer graphics fascinating because it is a combination of math and art. He took graduate level courses in computer graphics. And one of his projects - Particle System, is later on adopted into the OpenGL library. Samuel has spent many years in software consultancy before he joined Athentech Technologies Inc. in 2000. He has lead several major research and development projects since.
In his spare time Samuel enjoys classical music, fine arts, jigsaw puzzles and radio control models. He also loves planting organic produce and plan on building his fully automated organic farm this summer.


Brad Malcolm, CA – Vice President of Business Development
Brad began his life in the business world early. At age 19 while attending university, Brad started a business that in its second year, had annual revenue of over $100,000. After obtaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree, Brad went on to complete his Chartered Accountant designation and spent 4 years working with a major international Chartered Accounting firm where he spent several years in the corporate tax planning department. After this, Brad left to help manage various private and public Canadian and International companies which brought him to his current position with Athentech.