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    "summary": "AI-first CEO/CTO and founder-operator with 29+ years building trusted edge infrastructure across wireless, embedded security, SIM/eSIM, industrial IoT, fintech, and cloud-connected platforms. The last 8 years have focused on renewable-energy platforms, solar and storage asset intelligence, secure panel-level telemetry, VPP logic, and grid-grade data infrastructure.",
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      "position": "Chief Executive Officer / Chief Technology Officer",
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      "summary": "Leads Sunified's clean energy data infrastructure and hardware trust platform, turning solar and storage assets into secure, high-fidelity data nodes.",
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        "Developed the UNITY / Edge ID thesis: secure panel-level telemetry, source data provenance, and edge-to-cloud services for renewable asset intelligence.",
        "Advanced the Solar Operations Oceania 255 MW distributed solar park / VPP model: 51 x 5 MW solar parks connected to Australia's National Energy Market with storage and dispatch logic.",
        "Frames renewable assets as financeable digital infrastructure: measurable at source, more insurable, more bankable, and more operationally useful to grid stakeholders.",
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      "name": "Solara Group",
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      "startDate": "2016-10",
      "endDate": "2020-01",
      "summary": "Built the predecessor renewable-energy data platform around secure hardware modules, proof of green energy production, and energy provenance.",
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        "Connected solar hardware, energy data, blockchain-era provenance concepts, and financeability into the thesis that solar farms become high-fidelity energy data centers.",
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      "name": "Fuzo Limited",
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      "endDate": "2022-10",
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      "endDate": "2008-12",
      "summary": "Trusted Digital Authentication, secure wireless M2M, TOSIM lineage, China manufacturing/R&D."
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      "name": "AirWave Wireless",
      "position": "Chief Technology Officer",
      "startDate": "2001-01",
      "endDate": "2001-09",
      "summary": "Silicon Valley WiFi infrastructure, 802.1X / EAP-SIM, Microsoft/Cisco/Intel ecosystem."
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      "institution": "Wilfrid Laurier University",
      "area": "Business Administration",
      "studyType": "M.B.A."
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      "institution": "University of Waterloo",
      "area": "Systems Design Engineering",
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      "institution": "Creative Destruction Lab / Rotman ecosystem",
      "area": "Blockchain and AI",
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