Tom Haksi was appointed Interim CIO Inventure and CEO Vancity Group in June, 2007. Tom came to Inventure and Vancity with over 30 years experience in business management, information technology management, project management, consulting and software development. He has an extensive executive management background which includes positions as Corporate Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer, combined with a strong strategic business and comprehensive technology focus.

Garry Smith is Vice-President, Operations for Inventure Solutions. Garry oversees the IT business, and is responsible for core budget and business planning; contract and accounts payable management; Human Resources; Facilities Management; Data Centre Operations (including Help Desk & Document Services Centre), Technology Infrastructure, and Mergers &Partnerships. Garry's main role is to make improvements to processes and infrastructure to ensure Inventure's clients maximize their return on technology investments.

Garry has held a number of senior positions within Inventure since 2001 and has been in his current role since January 2006. Prior to Inventure Garry spent 37 years working at Vancity Savings Credit Union and has been working in the credit union industry since 1966. Most of his time has been spent in service delivery, operations and administration roles; he has been a Loans Officer, Accountant, Branch Manager, Assistant to the General Manager, Vice President of Branch Operations, Chief Productivity Officer, and Vice President of Administrative Services. Garry has played a key sponsorship role in the introduction of new technologies and business processes within Vancity including core banking systems, centralized administration and payment systems, centralized document processing, electronic content management and workflow systems, call centre and smart card technologies.

Tony Fernandes is the Vice President, Technology Strategy for Inventure Solutions and Chief Information Officer for Citizens Bank of Canada. Tony's responsibilities include IT Strategic Planning & Governance, Budget & Business Planning, Enterprise Architecture and Integration, Systems Development and Web Portal Development. Prior to his current role, Tony held a variety of senior leadership positions in the IT Operations and Technology Infrastructure areas.

Prior to Inventure Solutions, Tony spent five years with Vancity Savings Credit Union, most recently as the Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure and Operations. As a Chartered Accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor, he has more than 15 years experience working for large public accounting firms, primarily as a consultant in the information security and IT management disciplines.

Rob Church - Director, Architecture and Integration

Robert J. Church is the Director, Architecture and Integration, for Inventure Solutions. With Inventure since 2001, Rob and his team of software architects are primarily responsible for the organizations data and application technology direction; moving to newer technologies and a Service Oriented Architecture.

Rob has worked in organizations ranging from small technology startups to large companies such as Microsoft.

Jesse Breaker is the Director, Technology Infrastructure for Inventure Solutions. With Inventure since 2001, Jesse is responsible for formulating corporate IT strategy and long-term IT planning, research and application of new technologies and systems to support business objectives, as well as planning and administering the maintenance and use of computer, telecommunications and voice portal systems.

Jesse came to Inventure from Vancity Savings Credit Union, where he had been since 1993. While at Vancity, Jesse worked in a variety of roles including Infrastructure Team Lead and Senior UNIX, Network and Windows Administrator. Jesse has been able to leverage his experience working in these roles, and in turn work directly with his team to help the business reach their goals.

Sandy Forbes is the Director, Data Centre Operations for Inventure Solutions. Sandy is responsible for formulating corporate IT strategy and long-term planning, research and application of new technologies and systems that support service operations, as well as planning and administering the core infrastructure, enterprise data storage, configuration management and core system processing. Sandy is also responsible for overall stewardship of Help Desk and Document Services Centre.

Prior to Inventure, Sandy was with Intrawest Corporation where he responsible for the planning, delivery and management of multi-level end user support, enterprise application support, systems management and network administration. Sandy has amassed over 15 years experience in the areas of IT infrastructure design and management, project management, technology support and service level management in the leisure and travel, telecommunications, insurance and transportation industries.

Steven Lee is the Director, Systems Development for Inventure Solutions. Appointed in February 2007, Steven's responsibilities include product management for Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management and Loans Origination, Core Banking, Departmental Systems & Subsidiaries and Business Process Management.

Steven has 20 years of experience in IT. Most recently he was with Best Buy Canada as senior managing project manager. Prior to that, Steven was with Business Objects managing CRM, Financials, eCommerce, & HR business systems; and with BC Hydro as a work leader & developer implementing work management and customer systems.