Board of Governors
Members

Eli Fathi,

Co-CEO, Chide.it Inc.

Eli has been a technology entrepreneur for the past 25 years. He is a co-founder and co-CEO of Chide.it inc., an Internet software company offering Software as a service (SaaS) online applications based on collaborative feedback.

Eli has been involved with the community in general and the high tech community in particular by serving on a number of Boards including: Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation (OCRI) from 1999 to 2007, Ottawa Chamber of Commerce (OCC) from 2004 to 2009, the Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) since 2006, the Ottawa Community Loan Fund (OCLF) Board from 2008, the Board of the of the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County from 2009. Eli also serves on the Board of C-Com, a publicly traded company on the TSX-V. Eli joined the Editorial Board of the Ottawa Business Journal in 2009.

Eli has been involved in a number of task forces including chairing the Ottawa Gatineau Commercialization Task Force, participated on the CATA outsourcing and commercialization committees, a member of the Conference Board of Canada Leader's Roundtable on Commercialization from 2004 to 2006, and was a member of the Ottawa Innovation Hub committee. He chaired the Advisory Board for the Electronics department at Algonquin College, organized advisory forums for the Dean of School of Business at the University of Ottawa, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Dean of Engineering at the University of Ottawa.