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Don Simmonds - CEO

As Chairman and CEO, Don brings a blend of experiences in both business and ministry. In a media dominated society, he believes strongly that God's love for people needs to be presented in a relevant way through the power of today’s media technology.

Don and his wife Fay have been married for 37 years and live in Uxbridge, Ontario. They have four children. Shauna (29), Craig (26), Brett (25) and April (15). With their love for God and commitment to family as overriding priorities, Don and Fay have enjoyed a full life focused on two of the most rapidly changing environments: the electronics business and the teenage world.

In business Don is known as a “serial entrepreneur”, having been involved in over 20 new ventures in the last 30 years. The businesses cover a diverse range of ideas from consumer audio products to solar electric power to dairy farming! Don was one of seven partners that started the Lenbrook Group in 1977, a private business incubation company perhaps best known for having created Clearnet, one of Canada’s wireless networks sold in 2001 to Telus.

Until 2007 Don was the founding CEO of AirIQ Inc., a business providing wireless GPS tracking for all types of vehicles and marine vessels. During his years as CEO, AirIQ was named one of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Canadian Technology Fast 500 Program and ranked 12th and 17th in PROFIT magazine’s ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies for 2005, 2006. Don was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards in 2005.

Don and his wife Fay have been youth leaders at their church in Uxbridge for many years. From 1991-1994 Don left the business environment to work more intensely with youth as the National Youth Coordinator for Canadian Baptists and then enjoyed being the Executive Director of Toronto Youth for Christ (now Youth Unlimited). From 1980 to 1990 Don served as Canada’s representative to Baptist World Alliance Youth and assisted in the planning of world youth conferences in Argentina, Scotland and Zimbabwe.

Don enjoys being a private pilot, serves on a number of profit and not for profit boards, and particularly appreciates the opportunity to coach the young men on the Uxbridge Tigers High School Hockey team whose motto is “winning at hockey and winning in life”!

Don Simmonds - CEO

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