Ms. Brenda Fox is the CEO and Managing Director at Global Connexus Inc. An accomplished executive and advisor, she has over 20 years experience in the high tech industry. Brenda has a strong blend of strategic and operational skills coupled with a strong background in professional services, technology sales and development and international management.

She has held executive management roles  as President Codenomicon US Operations, CIO ReadRite, VP Application Services AristaSoft, VP Professional Service CompuCom, Director IT Safeguard Business Systems and Director IT Prime Minister Trudeau’s office. As an integral part of these management teams two of these start-ups grew to $1.5B in sales in less than 5 years each and successfully raised over $200mil in Venture Capital.

As a result of these positions Brenda has been involved in a number of vertical markets in the US and Asia and very familiar with their business processes, products, services and competition.  She has also been responsible for an outsourced operation in Hyderabad India.

Brenda Fox has personally worked closely over the past five years with many Finnish companies to assist them in launching and building their networks and businesses in North America and including two plus years as President of Codenomicon’s US Operations.

Her work has been an integral part of the Finnish programs Global Software and Global Clusters programs in Finland assisting companies to expand and enter into Global Markets. She has also been instrumental in establishing a strong economic development relationship between San Jose in Silicon Valley and Oulu Finland for the purpose of assisting start up companies to launch in Silicon Valley and to expand the networks available to Finnish Entrepreneurs.

Brenda holds degrees in Math and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Co-author of book: CIO Wisdom, Publisher: Prentice Hall, Spring 2002, ISBN:0-13-141115-2