Innovation Canada: A Call to Action

Biographies of Panel MembersAnnexBiographies ofPanel MembersCThomas JenkinsP. Thomas Jenkins is executive chairman andchief strategy officer of Open Text Corporationof Waterloo, Ontario, the largest independentsoftware company in Canada. He has served asa director of Open Text since 1994 and as itschairman since 1998. From 1994 to present,Mr. Jenkins was president and then chiefexecutive officer and then chief strategy officerof Open Text. Mr. Jenkins has also held severalexecutive positions with DALSA Inc., anelectronic imaging manufacturer based inWaterloo, Ontario. Prior to these positions,Mr. Jenkins was employed in technical andmanagerial capacities at a variety of informationtechnology-based companies in Canada.In addition to his Open Text responsibilities,Mr. Jenkins is the chair of the federal centre ofexcellence Canadian Digital Media Network(CDMN). He is also an appointed member ofthe Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada (SSHRC), past appointedmember of the Government of Canada’sCompetition Policy Review Panel, whichreported in June 2008, and past appointedmember of the Ontario CommercializationNetwork Review Committee (OCN), whichreported in February 2009. Mr. Jenkins is alsoa member of the board of BMC Software, Inc.,a software corporation based in Houston, Texas.He is also a member of the University ofWaterloo Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council,a director of the C. D. Howe Institute, a directorof the Canadian International Council (CIC) anda director of the Canadian Council of ChiefExecutives (CCCE).Mr. Jenkins received an MBA inentrepreneurship and technology managementfrom Schulich School of Business at YorkUniversity, an M.A.Sc. in electrical engineeringfrom the University of Toronto and a B.Eng.& Mgt. in engineering physics and commercefrom McMaster University.Bev DahlbyDr. Bev Dahlby is a professor and fellow at theInstitute for Public Economics at the Universityof Alberta.Dr. Dahlby has published extensively on taxpolicy and fiscal federalism. Dr. Dahlby’s book,The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: Theory andApplications, was published by MIT Press in2008. In 1998–1999, he held a McCallaResearch Professorship at the University ofAlberta. He has been a visiting scholar at theEconomic Policy Research Unit at the Universityof Copenhagen, the Australian Taxation StudiesProgram at the University of New South Wales,the Graduate School of Economics at GetulioVargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, theDepartment of Public Economics at theUniversity of Innsbruck, and the Department ofEconomics at Marburg University. He has servedas a policy adviser to the federal and provincialgovernments in Canada on the reform ofbusiness taxation, the fiscal equalizationA-9