About BoardSpace

BoardSpace was built by a team who believes that the work of volunteer boards of directors and the people that work with them to be very valuable to the communities they serve.

Our Mission

To help the worlds’ volunteer-led boards of directors do a better job.

Our Vision

Volunteer Boards are vastly more effective and their communities are better served.

Our Values

We aim to be transparent in all of our internal and external interactions with people.

BoardSpace is a learning organization and is committed to continuous learning.

We will practice good governance internally and promote good governance practices in our software.

We strive to create the best software available on the market.

Meet Our Team

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Pat Crosscombe

Founder & CEO &
Co-Editor, The Elevator

Pat is determined to bring the best software to the market for boards of directors. After 7 years on her condo board and the testing of many tools that didn’t get the job done, she is determined to build a better tool. Pat applies her mantra, If you should do, just do it to her work in bringing technology to boards of directors. Pat has a BSc.(Agr) from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

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Andrew Bailes

Chief Financial Officer

Andrew owns Hertford Advisors and provides virtual CFO services to a startup companies.  He has extensive experience in IT, Telecoms and other sectors, managing not only Finance, but also Legal, HR and Operational functions. Andrew did his undergraduate and Masters degree in Mathematics and Management Studies at Cambridge University in the UK and was top in his Executive MBA at Cornell and Queens.

Jeff Watson

Full Stack Developer & Systems Administrator

Jeff is the behind the scenes guy that keeps everything technical on track and running as it should. He started as a back-end Java EE coder and has expanded his expertise to include design, systems administration, AWS and architecture. Jeff has become an extremely well-rounded full-stack developer and more. He is a graduate of the Computer Engineering Technology-Computing Science program at Algonquin College.

Steve Davis

BoardSpace Advisor

Steve is serial technology entrepreneur and business coach with experience as a Social Media marketing specialist. He is a Professional engineer (PEO) with over 30 years of experience as a software architect in the field of mobile, web and platform development, embedded software and network security design.

Rick Monk

President & CEO, M Sight Global inc.  Advisor

Richard’s consulting practice focuses on governance, strategy, and performance. He is a staunch advocate of the role that good governance plays in the long-term sustainability of not-for-profit organizations.

Ron Gagnier

Designer, Advisor, Speaker

Ron is a champion of customer experience, product design and design thinking. He has worked in the design studios of IBM, started the design program at Halogen Software,  & been a design consultant with start-ups and enterprise companies for 20 years. He currently acts as the resident design expert at Invest Ottawa.

    

Chikei Yeung

BoardSpace Advisor

Chikei is a Finance and Business Development professional in the knowledge-based industry.  He is currently with Boast Capital and comes from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) where he provided non-dilutive growth capital solutions, along with consulting services to many scaling technology companies.

BoardSpace Bill

Official Mascot

Bill was blasted out of a canon at Montreal Startup Festival and landed in Pat Crosscombe’s lap. After that harrowing experience, he is content to be the BoardSpace mascot.

Bill loves meeting new people and can often be found travelling about by car, bicycle and sometimes drone.

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Meet Our Team

Photo of Pat Crosscombe

Pat Crosscombe

Founder & CEO &
Co-Editor, The Elevator

Pat is determined to bring the best software to the market for boards of directors. After 7 years on her condo board and the testing of many tools that didn’t get the job done, she is determined to build a better tool. Pat applies her mantra, If you should do, just do it to her work in bringing technology to boards of directors. Pat has a BSc.(Agr) from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

More about Pat

     

Andrew Bailes

CFO

Andrew owns Hertford Advisors and  provides virtual CFO services to a startup companies.  He has extensive experience in IT, Telecoms and other sectors, managing not only Finance, but also Legal, HR and Operational functions. Andrew did his undergraduate and Masters degree in Mathematics and Management Studies at Cambridge University in the UK and was top in his Executive MBA at Cornell and Queens.

Jeff Watson

Full Stack Developer & Systems Administrator

Jeff is the behind the scenes guy that keeps everything technical on track and running as it should. He started as a back-end Java EE coder and has expanded his expertise to include design, systems administration, AWS and architecture. Jeff has become an extremely well-rounded full-stack developer and more. He is a graduate of the Computer Engineering Technology-Computing Science program at Algonquin College.

Steve Davis

BoardSpace Advisor

Steve is serial technology entrepreneur and business coach with experience as a Social Media marketing specialist. He is a Professional engineer (PEO) with over 30 years of experience as a software architect in the field of mobile, web and platform development, embedded software and network security design.

Rick Monk

President & CEO, M Sight Global inc.  Advisor

Richard’s consulting practice focuses on governance, strategy, and performance. He is a staunch advocate of the role that good governance plays in the long-term sustainability of not-for-profit organizations.

Ron Gagnier

Designer, Advisor, Speaker

Ron is a champion of customer experience, product design and design thinking. He has worked in the design studios of IBM, started the design program at Halogen Software,  & been a design consultant with start-ups and enterprise companies for 20 years. He currently acts as the resident design expert at Invest Ottawa.

    

Chikei Yeung

BoardSpace Advisor

Chikei is a Finance and Business Development professional in the knowledge-based industry.  He is currently with Boast Capital and comes from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) where he provided non-dilutive growth capital solutions, along with consulting services to many scaling technology companies.

BoardSpace Bill

Official Mascot

Bill was blasted out of a canon at Montreal Startup Festival and landed in Pat Crosscombe’s lap. After that harrowing experience, he is content to be the BoardSpace mascot.

Bill loves meeting new people and can often be found travelling about by car, bicycle and sometimes drone.

More about Bill     

Meet our Affiliates

BoardSpace works with a number of awesome people & businesses that you should know about

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