Yves D’Aoust
Co-President and Chief Commercial Officer
Before starting at Bluestreak, Yves D’Aoust served as VP of Integration
and Services at ZAQ Interactive Solutions, where he was responsible for the
business development of interactive television products and services.
For over 12 years, Mr. D’Aoust worked for Teleglobe Canada and Transcontinental
Group in a strategic and business planning management role for digital television
and online services after spending 4 years in Europe building similar services
for his own company.
Mr. D’Aoust began his career as an engineer for Vidéotron Ltée Canadian 2nd
largest cable operator.
Marc Bélanger
Co-President and Chief Financial Officer
Marc Bélanger was until recently an independent financial advisor in
the telecommunications industry, more specifically in EMEA region where he
participated in numerous mergers and acquisitions projects, as well as financing
and restructuring activities. He also served as interim CFO for various companies
in the telecommunication and software industries.
Prior to this period, he was a financial director at Telesystem International
Wireless. Mr. Bélanger began his career at Deloitte & Touche.
Marc has 17 years experience and is member of Québec Order of Chartered
Accountants (CA).
Claude Cajolet
Chief Operating Officer
Claude Cajolet spent 10 years in senior management and software development
roles including those of VP of technology and director of software development with
the renowned 3D-graphics and special-effects software leader Softimage (Avid Technology).
He previously served in software and systems development positions with Virtual
Prototypes and CAE Electronics, two companies involved in visual simulations. As a
consultant, Mr. Cajolet also launched several software development organizations.
Mr. Cajolet holds a master’s degrees in computer science from the Université de
Montréal.
John McCalla
Chief Technical Officer
John McCalla is the original architect of the Bluestreak interactive
TV platform. He started his career in the imaging products group at Matrox
Electronics Systems, and during his five-year tenure with the company
he designed a new COM-based SDK for imaging applications (Matrox ActiveMIL)
and successfully led a team of developers in its deployment. Mr. McCalla’s
experience also includes work as a software design team leader in industrial,
medical, and semiconductor vision systems. Prior to joining the executive
team at Bluestreak, he served as software architect for
the iTV division of ZAQ. Mr. McCalla is a graduate of McGill University,
where he earned a BS degree in computer science.
Laurence Fornari
VP Sales Mobile Europe
Laurence Fornari has more than 10 years of experience in embedded technologies
and emerging market.
She joined Thomson CSF in signal processing research and development labs,
participating to military satellite communication and digital TV projects. Ms. Fornari
headed support and technical marketing for architecture and system level design
tools at Cadence Design Systems, addressing silicon vendor multimedia needs. She
then joined Packet Video where she provided support and project management to
leading device manufacturers and wireless operators. She participated to the
elaboration of the very first DVB-H architecture and consequent trial.
Ms. Fornari holds an engineering degree in signal processing from CPE, France.
