Our Team
Leaders push boundaries. At Teligence, all of our leaders share a passion for excellence. It's this passion that inspires them to create the innovative and unique products that make us a cut above the rest in the business of making connections. Our senior management team are proud to “talk the talk” and “walk the walk”. Each member has real life, hands on experience in delivering business success. As a result, they know what it means to have a strong culture and live up to the same values and vision.
Rob Madigan
Chairman
Rob's entrepreneurial career started with an Honours degree in Business Administration and from there he headed to Belfast, Ireland for a co-op term. Upon his return to Canada, Rob held many successful roles and in 1990, he founded the company that today is the multimillion dollar business of people meeting people, Teligence!
Among his many accolades, in 2004, Rob was a recipient of the Pacific Region Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2001 the prestigious Business in Vancouver's Forty Under Forty Award. Today, he is still self-driven, strategic and inquisitive and serves as Chairman of the Board.
Cameron Sobolik
President
With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Cameron's breadth of expertise includes global IT team formation, M&A, integration, staffing governance and business development.
As the President, Cameron sets the tone and leads the company to innovate and advance, and the mantra of building connections is always at the heart of everything he does.
As a leader, Cameron's passion is to motivate and create teams that thrive on challenges and deliver against the odds. He has a deep respect for the capabilities of others and takes pride in his leaders. His management approach is to push teams to continually strive to beat expectations while celebrating their successes.
Peter Gill
Chief Financial Officer
Peter joined Teligence as Chief Financial Officer in February 2011 bringing over 20 years of finance experience with him. Peter navigates the financial waters at Teligence steering all aspects of our finance and accounting functions as well as business development.
He has led a dynamic career in fields ranging from software engineering and investment management to corporate finance -where he has been the CFO for both private and publicly-traded technology companies. Along the way, Peter has become a CFA charterholder and earned a CGA designation.
He’s not all numbers though. We offered to work in references to windsurfing, ultimate and playing guitar. “Sure”, he happily replied, “1 in 1.6180339887” people would appreciate that.
Ian MacLeod
General Counsel
As our In-House Legal Counsel, Ian strives to improve the organization's infrastructure to ensure appropriate legal procedures, processes and corporate structure are in place to enable us to compete effectively. He acts as the shield, protecting the business - as well as acting as the sword, executing on concerns regarding telecommunications, banking and finance requirements and other regulatory areas of law.
Ian is a commercial lawyer with experience in commercial transactions, licensing, finance, mergers & acquisition, tax and employment law. In 2000, he followed his career aspirations of getting closer to business by moving to in-house counsel where he undertook large telecommunications and public market transactions and was directly involved in the corporate reorganization.
Shawn Stouten
Associate Vice-President, Operations
As Associate VP, Operations at Teligence, Shawn directs the day to day business of Teligence wearing multiple hats as he oversees Product Delivery, Network and IT Operations, Database Administration, Business Intelligence Development, and the Sales & Customers Service division. As a leader, Shawn continuously challenges the team to strive for smarter and better ways to do things, and he encourages unconventional solutions to push Teligence towards new technological heights.
With over 20 years of Technology, Project Management, Operations and Leadership experience, Shawn has worked for various telecommunications companies before joining Teligence. His model for success is to lead by example, and he is a big proponent of continuous development and growth.
Jeff Prete
General Manager, New Product Development
Jeff first joined Teligence back in 2009 as the Director, of Sales and Customer Service. He brought with him over 12 years of leadership experience in both customer service as well as IT management. He oversaw key strategic initiatives to our call centre operations including offshore partnering as well as bringing on a state-of-the-art analytics solutions, like Nexidia, to improve our customer experience.
Jeff’s focus with the company now is new business development. As the General Manager, New Product Development, Jeff leads the way in new product development and driving innovation at Teligence. He pushes the envelope to create unique social networking platforms that integrates web, mobile apps, and other modes of communication to bring a one-of-a-kind experience for our customers. Furthermore, Jeff drives and develops strategic partnerships that expand and increase our business opportunities and product penetration in the market.