Vancouver, BC, Canada - December 2, 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada - Aurora Control Technologies Corp. (ACT) announced that Gordon Deans assumes the role of chief technology officer, resigning his former position as president and CEO.
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Mr. Deans remains a member of the Company's Board of Directors and will assume leadership of the Company's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Mr. Deans is a co-founder of ACT Aurora Control Technologies Corporation Inc. Prior to founding Aurora, he held leadership positions at a number of high-technology organizations. At Adept Technology he was an executive officer of the company, serving as corporate Vice President of Business Development and General Manager of its Canadian subsidiary.
At Norsat International Mr. Deans was an executive officer of the company, responsible for business development and sales and marketing for their commercial technology products. He also spent 17 years with Nortel Networks and Bell-Northern Research in a number of increasingly responsible positions in research & development, product marketing, and business development.
Mr. Deans holds a Master of Engineering degree from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
Michael Heaven, Executive Chairman, will act as President and CEO as the Board of Directors completes its selection of a new Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Heaven is a co-founder of the company. He has had over 20 years experience in the development and application of measurement and control technology to a variety of industries. He has published extensively in the field of industrial measurement and process control and holds eleven patents in this area.
As General Manager for PT Papertech Mr. Heaven drove the development and delivery of innovative machine vision systems for in-line process monitoring and optimization in paper, tissue and steelmaking. Prior to Papertech, he was Chief Operating Officer of Norsat International, and he spent 13 years with Honeywell in various senior engineering and marketing roles.
Prior to Honeywell, Mr. Heaven spent five years in the steel industry, responsible for Dofasco's Hot Strip Flatness and Profile Control program. ■