About

STEPHEN LUND

Chief Executive Officer

Stephen Lund is a 30-year veteran of the financial industry with leadership roles in banking, venture capital, business development and international finance.

He is the CEO of the newly established Crown Corporation Opportunities NB, the first point of contact for business development in the province.

He is the former President and CEO of Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI). Stephen and his team attracted a number of world-leading companies to Nova Scotia and worked to proactively help local, home-grown businesses reach new markets and become stronger global competitors through trade initiatives and financing investments. In its most recent five-year reporting period (2007-2012), NSBI achieved over 150% of its key target, generating over $1.2Billion in new client direct payroll ($2.1B including indirect) on a target of $800Million. In 2012, through his leadership, Nova Scotia was named by FDI Intelligence, a division of the Financial Times, the best-performing region in North America in attracting inward investment.

Stephen is a graduate of the Business program at St. Francis Xavier University, holds an MBA from Queen’s University and received his designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He has also completed a number of executive courses at Queen’s University, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. Stephen served as a member of the board of directors at the IWK Health Centre and the QE2 Hospital Foundation and currently serves on several Boards and a number of business associations. He was the inaugural Chair of the Heart & Stroke Hockey Heroes Fundraiser. In 2011, he was inducted into Atlantic Business Magazine’s prestigious Top CEO Hall of Fame after being named one of the top CEO’s for five consecutive years, and he was recognized by Financial Centers International as one of the top 500 most influential people in financial centers worldwide.

He is active in a number of sports and was a participant in the World Triathlon Championships, the Boston Marathon and the Canadian University Hockey Championships. He is married to Sandy and has 2 sons Connor and Shaun.

TYSON JOHNSON

Chief Operating Officer

Tyson has worked in both the public and private sectors over the course of his career.  Starting in the Federal civil service, Tyson developed hands-on experience across the entire spectrum of issues facing Canada’s foreign and domestic threats. He worked closely with government agencies in Canada and abroad to collaborate and achieve successful outcomes.

After departing the Government of Canada, Tyson spent the next number of years building and supporting enterprise risk management programs for multinational organizations in both financial services and electronics manufacturing. During this time, Tyson worked globally to understand and integrate regional nuances into a corporate framework to support business success. It was during this period that Tyson obtained his Global Masters of Arts Program designation from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. His thesis explored the contributing decision support factors for comparative country selection by corporations.

Most recently, Tyson led BrightPlanet, a US-based ‘big data’ pioneer, as its VP Business Development & Strategy. In this role, Tyson helped shape BrightPlanet into a successful member of the data & analytics ecosystem to support risk management across government and industry. This included a key focus on threat identification and cybersecurity initiatives.

HEATHER MACLEAN

Head of Cybersecurity Skills & Workforce Development Strategy

Heather MacLean is the Head of Cybersecurity Skills & Workforce Development Strategy for CyberNB. Her experience spans six industries in more than 30 countries. She has worked in both public and private-sector, including a publicly traded company.

While in private sector, she led and executed CARIS’ (now Teledyne) Academic Partnering Program with Universities and Colleges in more than 20 countries and developed and managed Strategic Resellers Programs, which increased revenues by more than 600%. After CARIS, she managed a Salesforce team responsible for the Higher Education Program. Heather is also a Professor for Saint Thomas University’s Communication and Public Policy faculty.

Heather is also an award-winning marketing and communications practitioner. She led the marketing and communications for Canada’s only successful Airline Travel Bank, for which she was a finalist for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. She is an Above and Beyond Award Winner for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, recipient of a New Brunswick Rising Star Award as well as a CRTA Industry Person of the year.

DAVID WHELBOURN

Head of CyberSecure, CyberInnovate and CyberSpark

David is an accomplished project management professional with more than 25 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors.

David is a certified project and programme manager. He has managed projects and programmes across diverse range of areas from Information Technology, Healthcare, Business services, Distribution and the Public Sector. He has been a contributor to Project Management knowledge and PMI standards since 2005.

David brings a proven success record in project leadership in innovative projects for companies such as Panasonic, Reed Exhibitions, Medicsight and the Government of New Brunswick.

David has delivered innovations in business practices, medical practices and shared services. He is currently the Programme Director for CyberNB – a Government of New Brunswick initiative to establish New Brunswick as the Canadian Epicentre for Cyber Security.

Originally from the UK, David Immigrated to Canada and New Brunswick in 2005. He became a Canadian Citizen in 2010.

CLAUDE INNES

Head of Broadband Initiative

Claude Innes has a diverse background in private and public sector and has been instrumental in developing strategy and policy across a variety of business areas and economic sectors.

He is an entrepreneur and taught programs in entrepreneurship and in business management.

His early teaching experience inspired him to become an instructional designer and later on a project manager on health and aerospace and defence training development projects.

He returned to New Brunswick to work with the government to grow the province’s tech sector and continues to serve on national public sector committees on broadband, innovation and digital economy. He has a strong personal interest in Aboriginal issues and participates on a tripartite committee on land.

Claude has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick.

JOSH WAITE

Head of Cyber Essentials Certification (Canada)

GARY WOOD

Business Development Executive

Gary Wood is a Senior Business Development Lead at Cyber NB, and oversees and manages all partnership opportunities and agreements to enhance the overall ecosystem of Cyber NB.

Strategically identifying targeted capabilities, managed growth is achieved by ensuring partners are vested in at least one of the pillars of the strategy.

Gary’s role in Investment Attraction over the past 15 years has primarily been in the Defence and Security sector but his experience includes International Education, Advanced Manufacturing and as a pioneer in the proliferation of the Information Highway initiatives in New Brunswick.

BILL KIERSTEAD

Education Specialist

JENNIFER MCNEIL-HADDAD

Marketing Assistant

BRENDAN DUNPHY

Support Desk Agent

GENEVIÈVE SCHRYER

Support Desk Agent

JESSICA HAMILTON

Support Desk Agent