Management Team

Geoff Clark - Chief Executive Officer

Geoff Clark has extensive experience in financial, technical and general management roles in several public and private technology companies, most recently with SQFive Intelligent Oilfield Solutions Ltd. a private oil and gas technology and services company. Before joining SQFive, Geoff was CFO of TSX listed Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd. While with Guest-Tek, Geoff was instrumental in completing two major acquisitions, a share buyback, and several private placements of debt and equity. Prior to joining Guest-Tek, Geoff was CFO of Pan Terra Industries, a TSX Venture listed company. Geoff figured prominently in Pan Terra’s CBO (change of business) transaction from a junior oil and gas to environmental services organization. Prior to Pan Terra, Geoff was a co-founder of Revolve Magnetic Bearings Inc. a supplier of magnetic levitation systems. Geoff held a variety of position with Revolve including CFO and V.P. Marketing. Geoff secured several rounds of financing for Revolve and was instrumental in Revolve’s eventual sale to SKF, the Swedish bearing manufacturer. Geoff holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary.

Dr. Michal Okoniewski - Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder

Chief Scientist from the time of Acceleware's inception and Interim President and CEO from 2008 until 2010, Michal is a renowned expert in applied computational electrodynamics, high performance computing, microelectronics and micro-machining, as well as in biomedical engineering with close to 30 years experience and over two hundreds technical publications. Dr. Okoniewski has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University, Gdansk and is a Fellow of IEEE.

Robert Miller - Chief Marketing and Sales Officer

Rob has over 20 years of technology business experience in leadership, operations, marketing, and sales roles and prior to Acceleware was the vice president of marketing for the XMetaL division of Blast Radius that was acquired by Justsystems of Tokyo in 2006. Prior to Blast Radius, Mr. Miller was the general manager of Verity Canada, part of the Verity executive team and was Director of Corporate Marketing for Verity Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California. Mr. Miller has held several other senior marketing and product management positions in high tech companies including FTP Software of Andover, Massachusetts. He initiated his business career as general manager of Image Club, which was eventually acquired by Adobe Systems. Rob has a B.A. from the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Dan Cyca - Chief Technology Officer

Regarded as a leading mind in the field of parallel processing, Dan has extensive experience working with GPUs, clusters and multi-core solutions. Dan joined Acceleware in 2004 as a software developer to build the company’s first product. Since then, he has served in many technical and leadership roles in the company. Most recently, as the Director of Engineering, Dan was responsible for managing the software development group. Prior to Acceleware, Dan’s experience included developing 'C-to-hardware' compilers, and implementing digital signal processing and encryption algorithms on FPGAs. Dan has an M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary.