Reg Weiser
Reginald Weiser attended McGill University and received his electrical engineeringdegree from Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Daltech). He was awarded anHonorary Engineering Doctorate Degree in Engineering for imaginativeentrepreneurship and revolutionary leadership by Dalhousie University (Daltech) inMay 1996.In 1970, he founded Positron Inc., where he is still the Chairman and Chief ExecutiveOfficer. Positron's leadership in developing new technologies has been acknowledgedby the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (I.E.E.E.) in 1978 and 1980 withtwo
"Best Product"
awards and by the City of Montreal with its
Award of Excellence
in 1985. Positron also holds a
Canada Export Award 1987 - Honourable Mention,
andthe
1988 Canada Export Award.
Positron Fiber Systems, a Positron subsidiary, washonoured in May 1996 with the First
National Information Highway Award
forproduct development supporting the application and development of the InformationHighway.Several Positron divisions have been divested including Positron Fiber Systems (PFS)which was listed on NASDAQ and Positron Public Safety Systems, which pioneered anddeployed 9-1-1 systems across North America and internationally.Mr. Weiser was honoured as
Batisseur de la Revue Commerce
for entrepreneurshipby Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in December 1997 and was honoured as the
1999 Quebec Entrepreneur of the Year
recipient. Mr. Weiser was inducted as aFellow to the Royal Canadian Engineering Academy in June 2005.
Mr. Weiser served as a member of the Comité Consultatif de l'Industrie de laC.I.D.E.M. (Advisory Committee on Industry and Commerce for Montreal), director of the Canadian Telecommunications Action Committee (CTAC), director of CANARIE(Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education) from1994 to 1997, was co-chairman of the sub-committee formulating Montreal's positionon Free Trade, director of the Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA),Director of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) and the Councilof Governors of Montreal International.He still serves as a director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and variouscorporations.
Jake Eberts
A former Wall Street investor, the Montreal-born Eberts began his career in featuresin the early 1970s arranging financing. After relocating to London, England, where heeventually rose to managing director of Oppenheimer & Co., Ltd., he foundedGoldcrest Films, a successful independent production company involved with suchhigh profile films as Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning "Gandhi" (1982), BillForsyth's "Local Hero" (1983) and Roland Joffe's "The Killing Fields" (1984). Ebertsserved as president and CEO of Goldcrest until 1983 when he joined Embassy Pictures.In 1985, he founded Allied Filmmakers and the following year made his debut asexecutive producer with Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Name of the Rose" (1986).Among the other features this risk-taking maverick has produced or executiveproduced are John Boorman's Academy Award-nominated memoir of WWII London"Hope and Glory" (1987), the back-to-back Oscar winners "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989)and "Dances With Wolves" (1990), Robert Redford's "A River Runs Through It" (1992)and the delightful children's film "James and the Giant Peach" (1995).He returned to films with Native American themes as producer or executive producerof "The Education of Little Tree" (1997) and Attenborough's "Grey Owl" (lensed 1998).Eberts also served as an executive producer on the first feature from AardmanAnimation, "Chicken Run" (2000), co-directed by Peter Lord and three-time Oscar-winner Nick Park. In 2002, Eberts, became chairman of National Geographic FeatureFilms (NGFF) and executive produced such titles as the live action animal feature
TwoBrothers
by Jean-Jacques Annaud. He has also branched out into documentaries
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