WILLIAM
A. BREUKELMAN, CHAIRMAN
William A. (Bill) Breukelman has owned, founded and funded numerous businesses
in the high
tech field, with particular interest in information systems and imaging. He
is a pioneer in
imaging, having been a principal and later chairman of IMAX Corporation from
1970 to 1995.
Under his and his ‘partners’ leadership, IMAX grew into a global
entertainment company with
production and distribution of over 100 films and 100 theatre operations in
18 countries.
He was also a co-founder and former President of Sciex Corporation, a provider
of high speed
and ultra trace analytical instrumentation with yearly sales exceeding $600
million. Sciex has
become a core asset of MDS Inc., a health and management company with a market
capitalization of $2 billion.
As chairman and principal of Business Arts Inc., a high-tech incubation and
investment firm, he
supports its funding and co-development activities. The company is committed
to the creation
and development of transforming corporations focused upon building sustainable
and
breakthrough shareholder value. Its investment interests include MDS SCIEX (a
molecular
imaging company), Arius3D (a surface imaging company), Cedara Software (a medical
imaging
company), as well as GEDEX™ (a geological imaging and discovery company).
Bill has a long history with the oil business and has been a director of a number
of junior
exploration companies. He is currently a director of Fortune Minerals, an exploration
and
development company focused upon the assembly and development of high quality
mineral and
energy resource assets.