Ken Gordon
Chief Executive Officer at Quantum Silicon, Inc.
Profile
Mr. Ken Gordon is Venture Partner at Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc. He is an entrepreneur and consultant living in Edmonton where he regularly advises and mentors technology start-ups.
He’s also currently the Executive Director of Alberta Deal Generator, a network of angel investors operating in Edmonton and Calgary, and the CEO of Loa Corporation, a software start-up.
Prior to his current work, he was the founding President Myrias Research Corporation, a pioneering venture-backed parallel supercomputer hardware and software developer in Edmonton.
After Myrias, he turned around Precise Systems Corporation, a document management software company, which he led through ten years of bootstrapped growth.
During this time, he also worked as CEO of Jade Simulations International, a Calgary-based parallel software company and later, was founding President of Invidi Technologies, a targeted advertising software company.
Before entering the business world, he was an Economist, specializing in the History of Economic Thought, post-Keynesian economic theory, and some arcane areas of the application of systems of differential equations to economic fluctuations.
Mr. Gordon earned his BA and MA are from the University of Saskatchewan, and his partially-completed PhD work was done at the New School for Social Research.
Ken Gordon active positions
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Quantum Silicon, Inc.
 Quantum Silicon, Inc. Industrial MachineryProducer Manufacturing Quantum Silicon, Inc. is a Canadian company based in Edmonton that develops the world's first practical implementation of field-controlled computing. The company uses atomic-scale, ultra-low-power field-controlled computing based on unique single-atom silicon quantum dots. The company's devices are orders of magnitude faster than the best CMOS devices, but fully compatible with them on the same chip. The company's approach harnesses quantum phenomena in collections of silicon atoms to represent, transmit, and create information. The CEO of the company is Ken Gordon. | Chief Executive Officer | - |
Former positions of Ken Gordon
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INVIDI Technologies Corp.
 INVIDI Technologies Corp. Advertising/Marketing ServicesCommercial Services INVIDI Technologies Corp. provides targeted television advertising and marketing solutions. It offers Advatar, a delivery system that includes Advatar Advertising, which provides access, preview, purchase, verification, campaign management, and reporting of television delivered impressions for media buyers, as well as allows them to execute their advertising campaigns. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ. | President | - |
Myrias Research Corp.
 Myrias Research Corp. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Myrias Research Corp. provides computer hardware services. It specializes in Supercomputer hardware, supercomputer systems software and parallel programming. The company was founded by Ken Gordon, Daniel Boulet, Colin Broughton, Jim Savage, Chris Thomson, Jamie Bater and Daniel Wilson in December 1983 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada. | Founder | - |
Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc.
 Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc. (Chrysalix Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Michael J. Brown and Wal van Lierop. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Ken Gordon
| University of Saskatchewan | Graduate Degree |
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INVIDI Technologies Corp.
INVIDI Technologies Corp. Advertising/Marketing ServicesCommercial Services INVIDI Technologies Corp. provides targeted television advertising and marketing solutions. It offers Advatar, a delivery system that includes Advatar Advertising, which provides access, preview, purchase, verification, campaign management, and reporting of television delivered impressions for media buyers, as well as allows them to execute their advertising campaigns. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ. | Commercial Services |
Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc.
Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc. (Chrysalix Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Michael J. Brown and Wal van Lierop. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | Finance |
Myrias Research Corp.
Myrias Research Corp. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Myrias Research Corp. provides computer hardware services. It specializes in Supercomputer hardware, supercomputer systems software and parallel programming. The company was founded by Ken Gordon, Daniel Boulet, Colin Broughton, Jim Savage, Chris Thomson, Jamie Bater and Daniel Wilson in December 1983 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada. | Technology Services |
Quantum Silicon, Inc.
Quantum Silicon, Inc. Industrial MachineryProducer Manufacturing Quantum Silicon, Inc. is a Canadian company based in Edmonton that develops the world's first practical implementation of field-controlled computing. The company uses atomic-scale, ultra-low-power field-controlled computing based on unique single-atom silicon quantum dots. The company's devices are orders of magnitude faster than the best CMOS devices, but fully compatible with them on the same chip. The company's approach harnesses quantum phenomena in collections of silicon atoms to represent, transmit, and create information. The CEO of the company is Ken Gordon. | Producer Manufacturing |
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