Jonathan has a wealth of experience in starting, leading and mentoring technology start-ups. As co-founder and Chairman of the Board of IronPoint Technology, the market leader in public-sector content and collaboration, Jonathan led the company from start-up to successful acquisition by The Active Network in thirty months.

Jonathan sits on the board of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, is a founding member of VEF Momentum and sits on the final jury for the New Ventures BC competition.

Jonathan is a recipient of Business in Vancouver's 2007 Top 40 Under 40.

With oversight of marketing, partnerships and product management, Joshua defines Strangeloop's strategic marketing and product direction. Joshua has more than 10 years of experience in the technology industry. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of IronPoint Technology, helping lead the company to a successful acquisition by The Active Network in 2006. Josh has served as senior vice president, Marketing and Product Development, at NTS Internet Solutions after having held senior marketing and product roles at MNK, and GRAPAD.

Before entering high tech, Joshua worked with micro-finance institutions in Benin, West Africa, auditing banks and implementing financial controls.

Joshua is a recipient of Business in Vancouver's 2007 Top 40 Under 40.

Joshua discusses current web performance issues in his blog, Web Performance Today. 

Kent has been instrumental in authoring all of Strangeloop's pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology. Kent also founded Eclipse Software, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, which he sold to Discovery Software in 2001.

In more than 20 years of professional development experience, Kent has served as architect and lead developer for successful production solutions with The Active Network, ADP, Lucent, Microsoft, and NCS. "Port View", an application Kent architected for the Port of Vancouver, was honoured as "Best Administrative System" at the 1996 Windows World Open Competition.

Kent holds a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Calgary.

Lee is a 20-year veteran of the high tech industry. Before coming to Strangeloop, he spent three years with IronPoint Technology, where he helped guide that company through high growth as an early-stage startup to acquisition in 2006.

As chief executive officer of Discovery Software from 2000 to 2002, Lee helped the firm increase monthly revenues to $5.7 million, a 160% increase in just 20 months. He also managed the company’s growth in staff from 19 to 80. During Lee’s tenure as CEO, Discovery Software emerged as the twelfth fastest growing company in British Columbia.

Lee also served as chief technical officer for both eduVoice Technologies and Sportica Internet Technologies.

In 2001, Business in Vancouver honored Lee’s achievements by including him in its list of the “Top 40 Under 40”. 

With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them.

He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware.

Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.

Birgit joined Strangeloop in 2006 to build Strangeloop’s back office functions, including finance/accounting, human resources, and legal. She has been instrumental in earning Strangeloop the title "Best Company to Work for in BC" for four consecutive years.

With a passion for building teams and developing systems and processes, Birgit has been working with emerging companies in both North America and Europe for the past 10 years. Her diverse background in finance and operations includes roles as director of operations of a managed IT service provider as well as vice president of operations for a publicly traded US corporation. Birgit is the author of the book "The Theory and Practice of Quality Management" (Oldenburg, 1998). She is a former treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Pacific Club, a non-profit speaking organization for young professionals.

A Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with an MBA from the University of Victoria, a degree in Commercial Science from the Johannes Kepler University in Austria, and over 10 years of finance, operations and consulting experience, Birgit has a proven track record contributing to the growth of dynamic organizations.