CaseBank's Senior Managers and Directors

A strong group of individuals with diverse backgrounds and extensive technical experience make up the CaseBank team of senior Managers and Directors. For more information about CaseBank's management, or to speak directly with any member of the team about our guided diagnostic software products and related services, please feel free to contact us.

Senior Managers

Tony O'Hara, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Phil D'Eon, President and Chief Technology Officer
Carl Solomon, Chief Financial Officer
Mark Langley, Vice President, Research & Development

Company Directors

Peter McLaughlin
Don Lenz
Mike Svetkoff

Tony O'Hara, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. Tony is a co-founder of CaseBank and serves in both executive and operational roles. As Chief Executive, he is responsible for corporate and business development, and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. As Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for the development and execution of the company's strategic plan, and all day-to-day operations. Prior to co-founding CaseBank in December 1998, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Inex Corporation, a leading Canadian developer of electronic commerce software for the Internet. His thirty years of high technology experience includes telecommunications engineering; software development and management with companies such as General Electric and Bell Canada; executive management with ISG Technologies and Algorithmics; and management consulting with emerging high-technology companies including Border Network Technologies.

Phil D'Eon, President and Chief Technology Officer. Phil is a co-founder of CaseBank and the originator of its SpotLight product concept. In the role of President, he is responsible for corporate and business development, and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. As Chief Technology Officer, Phil is the visionary for the company’s technological innovation and development, and serves on several aerospace industry committees proposing future technologies and solution architectures. Prior to founding CaseBank, he co-founded Atlantis Aerospace Corporation in 1978, and for over 20 years developed a successful international business in maintenance and flight simulators for the aerospace industry. It was there that he originated the SpotLight concept in 1995. In 1998, he and Tony O’Hara acquired the SpotLight technology from Atlantis and founded CaseBank. He continues today to guide the innovation of CaseBank's hybrid reasoning technology and pioneer new applications. His thirty-five years of aerospace experience includes eight years of hands-on aircraft maintenance, twenty years of technology innovation and development, and seven years of executive management.

Carl Solomon, Chief Financial Officer. Carl manages CaseBank's day to day financial affairs and serves as Secretary to the Board of Directors. He is responsible for overseeing the company's accounting, compliance with reporting requirements and financing. With over 30 years experience in accounting, he has practiced as a sole practitioner and as an audit partner at Thorne Riddell and then at Deloitte Haskins + Sells, national accounting firms. He also brings 10 years' experience in human resources management as human resources partner in accounting offices with over 80 people. Using his experience in strategic planning, he led seminars on maximizing client profitability for audit partners and managers throughout North America.

Mark Langley, Vice President, Research & Development. Mark is a co-founder of CaseBank and the architect of its SpotLight product family. In the role of Vice-President, Research & Development, he maintains overall architectural responsibility for all CaseBank software solutions, and for their integration with partners’ and customers’ systems. He manages all technical and personnel aspects of the company’s software engineering capabilities. In addition, Mark serves on the management committee for strategic planning and business development. Prior to joining CaseBank, he was a senior software developer with Atlantis Aerospace Corporation, where he developed autopilot and turbojet engine control software for unmanned air vehicles. He also conducted several successful research projects on the applicability of artificial intelligence techniques for adaptive flight control systems.

Company Directors

Peter McLaughlin is the President of Greenbriar Holdings, a private company that invests in a variety of technology companies. Greenbriar provided the seed capital for the Company and has continued its support through the exercise of options and convertible debentures. Greenbriar currently holds 30% of the Company's issued and outstanding equity. Prior to his position at Greenbriar, Mr McLaughlin practiced law with Baker McKenzie for 16 years.

Donald Lenz has over 30 years experience as an investment banker advising some of North America's largest corporations. Prior to joining Newport Partners as a co-founder in 2001, he was vice president and director of the Corporate and Investment Banking Division of RBC Dominion Securities Inc. from 1986 and prior to that, was vice president corporate finance with Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1974. Mr. Lenz sits as a director on the board of Enmax Corporation and has served as a member of the board of directors of a number of Canadian public and not-for-profit entities.

Mike Svetkoff has seven years experience in the investment and corporate finance business. Mr. Svetkoff is a lead partner in the private equity practice. Prior to joining Newport Partners in 2001, Mr. Svetkoff spent six years in the audit division of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, working with companies across various industries. He left that position in 2000 to gain operating experience as the controller of a small high-tech company.

Solutions & Answers For:

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Experience of Thousands of Experts

CaseBank's unique guided diagnostic subscription service for airlines can improve the efficiency and safety of your aircraft operations by bringing experience from across the industry to your troubleshooters. This service uses CaseBank Technologies' proven software, "SpotLight®," which delivers expert diagnostic guidance for solving equipment and process problems, and a knowledgebase of the results and lessons learned from successful troubleshooting experiences. SpotLight delivers these experiences to your people in time to help, wherever and whenever similar problems appear. No risky development. No management burden. Just speedy, guided access to highly relevant knowledge.

With the aircraft guided diagnostic service, CaseBank provides an ever-ready global "collective memory" loaded with the compiled experiences of the industry's experts. Your guide never goes off shift, never takes a vacation, never changes jobs, and never retires. The wealth of knowledge from an entire industry's experienced troubleshooters will always be available, no matter what.

Past diagnostic experiences are captured and compiled in a knowledgebase called a "knowledgebase". Each individual solution documents the entire set of symptoms that distinguishes it from similar solutions. Each solution also documents the root cause of the fault and the known, successful corrective actions.

An aircraft guided diagnostic knowledgebase is extraordinarily concise, since one solution is used to represent all instances of a particular type of fault. Users are not deluged with records of each occurrence. Rather, each solution comprises a unique set of characteristics that clearly distinguish each problem from all others. Only relevant information is included.

CaseBank provides subscribers with access to a secure, central knowledgebase created and maintained by CaseBank. With the help of industry experts, CaseBank reviews subscribers' maintenance experiences and, once the root cause of a problem has been verified and all related information validated, and prepares a new solution for inclusion.

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