Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
GaN Systems
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Girvan Patterson, co-founder of GaN Systems, is a chartered electrical engineer and has nearly forty years experience in the telecommunications and data networking fields and twenty years public company board experience.
He worked initially on the development of the first processor controlled switching systems with GEC Telecommunications UK,
gaining patents and industry recognition for his work, and latterly on the early implementation of CAD systems.
After joining Bell-Northern Research he headed up the successful development of CAD/CAM tools for BNR and their subsequent deployment into Nortel as part of the Digital World rollout.
Since then he has gone on to a successful business career, founding graphics workstation producer Orcatech Inc and co-founding Plaintree Systems Inc, a pioneer in Ethernet switching.
He has completed four IPOs on the TSX and NASDAQ. His greatest strengths and interests are in start-up management and international sales
