SMART co-CEOs named TeleSpan Pace Award 2006 winners
Prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions in teleconferencing
CALGARY, ALBERTA --- December 15, 2006 --- SMART Technologies Inc. announces that Nancy Knowlton, president and co-CEO, and David Martin, chairman and co-CEO, are the recipients of the annual TeleSpan Pace Award 2006. The TeleSpan Pace Award honors teleconferencing professionals who make more than a decade of contributions to the industry.
Nancy Knowlton has received other awards recognizing her entrepreneurial successes, including the 1999 Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in the Export category. In 1999, both she and David Martin were awarded the Prairies Region Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award and, in 2002, a Manning Innovation Award. David Martin is named inventor on several U.S. patents and applications pending around the world. Two of these patents are the Interactive Display System, issued in 1995, and the Projection Display System with Touch Sensing on Screen, Computer Assisted Alignment Correction and Network Conferencing, issued in 2000. In 2004, he received the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance Award for Private Sector and Leadership in Advanced Technology in recognition of his outstanding technological innovation and corporate leadership.
“Dave and Nancy have both been completely committed to building SMART for the last 20 years,” says Vaughn Keenan, vice president, product development, at SMART. "They have built the interactive whiteboard industry one board at a time, and today their expertise, dedication to customers and commitment to excellence is being recognized around the world."
“TeleSpan chose to honor Dave and Nancy for their 20 years of dedication and passion in the field of technology,” says Elliott Gold, publisher of TeleSpan. “In our many interviews, we couldn’t find a single person who didn’t love the two for their contributions – technical, business, and charitable. We couldn’t agree more with the industry, and decided to honor them this year with the TeleSpan Annual Pace Award.”
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