John Foreman, Director, Business Development & Marketing

John Foreman -- Director, Business Development & Marketing

John Foreman joined the Canadian Innovation Centre in 2008 and is also founder and President of the Technology Marketing Resource Centre. He has over 25 years of experience in the Canadian technology industry.  John has been involved in the marketing of technology in Canada and internationally since 1994.

John is also the founder of the Ready Set Grow series, a program of educational webinars targeted to assist young Canadian technology entrepreneurs.  Using the webinar format, John has also assisted in providing training to contestants on the CBC Dragons Den.

Before founding TMRC, John was Vice-president of Corporate Marketing for CGI Group Inc, Canada’s largest IT services company, where he led the global marketing organization during one of the most aggressive periods of growth in the company’s history. John has an engineering degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.  John is also on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA).