PDTi has established a business advisory board to provide strategic business-level advice to PDTi's President on an ongoing basis. Currently PDTi's business advisory board consists of Peter Wilson and Barry Jinks.

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson has over 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry. His career includes marketing and sales positions at Philips Electronics and LSI Logic, followed by senior management positions at EDA startup Cadabra Design Automation and home networking specialist Cogency Semiconductor.

In addition to his work in industry, Mr Wilson has contributed as a member of the Board of Directors for Telecommunications Research (TR) Labs and Cogency Technology.

Mr. Wilson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Queens University.

Barry Jinks

Barry Jinks is the President, CEO and Founder of Colligo Networks. Mr. Jinks is a serial entrepreneur who has participated on the founding management teams and boards of directors of several technology startups. Shortly after graduating from university, he joined LSI Logic Corporation, a pioneer in the application specific semiconductor market, as part of the team that spun off the Canadian subsidiary and took it public. Subsequently, Barry led Spectrum Signal Processing, a provider of software reconfigurable and software defined radio (SDR) platforms, to a dominant market position, guiding it from a startup to a NASDAQ and TSE-listed company with 200 employees and $40 million in sales. He left Spectrum in 1999 and founded Colligo Networks in 2000.

Barry holds degrees in Science and Electrical Engineering from UBC, where he won several academic awards. While at Spectrum, he was named Ernst and Young's 1997 Pacific Region 'Entrepreneur of the Year' for High Technology. Barry is a member of the World President's Organization (WPO), the professional engineering association of BC, the board of directors of the BC Technology Industries Association and the board of advisors of the UBC Electrical Engineering Department.