About Us

Gary Agnew

CEO & CO-FOUNDER

Gary is a global executive, with 25+ years in the industrial/B2B markets, developing and commercializing innovative new products, services and solutions.

Gary is a visionary with strong operational credentials and a track record of building teams that deliver extraordinary results.

Most recently, Gary founded the Finning Digital division and scaled revenue to $500m in 3 years, delivering profitability in <24 months.

Doug Schouten

CTO & CO-FOUNDER

Doug is a global leader in muon tomography and one of the few people in the world with the expertise to turn muon research into industrial problems solved.

Doug holds a BSc. (Hons) in  physics and computer science from UBC, and a PhD in subatomic physics from SFU.

Doug also has extensive expertise in computer simulation, data analysis and statistical inference – including machine learning methods and detector physics.

Krysta Chapman

CFO

Krysta, a Chartered Professional Accountant (CA) and Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder, is a financial executive with over 15 years’ progressive success leading accounting, tax, and financial strategy for international venture capital and financing organizations.

Her experience includes CFO and senior finance roles at Winshear Gold, Tectonic Metals, Sandstorm Gold, and Pathway Capital (where she managed several private and public mining companies).

Kim Lawrence

VP, TALENT & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Kim handles employee experience and culture, talent management, brand and customer experience, marketing, communications, government engagement, and community relations.

Kim holds a B.A (Hons) from Queen’s and a graduate diploma in Business Management (Asia-Pacific) from Capilano University.

Most recently, she served for 8 years as CMO at the University of Calgary, building a team that drove a double-digit increase in likelihood to recommend.

David Gionet

DIRECTOR, PROJECT DELIVERY & MANUFACTURING OPS

David works with teams of technical and non-technical colleagues within and beyond Ideon to ensure delivery of major project and relationship outcomes critical to the company’s success.

David earned a Master of Management Sciences in Management of Technology from Waterloo and a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill.

He worked at MDA for many years in a range of technical roles and leading business development activities for space-based Earth observation for international markets, including oil & gas and mining.

Vlad Lavrovsky

DIRECTOR, HARDWARE ENGINEERING

Vlad is a scientist who became a tech entrepreneur in order to deploy new technologies into the world. With experience in commercial R&D and high technical-risk product development, he has successfully brought multiple products to market.

He earned a BHSc in Bioinformatics from UCalgary where he developed synthetic biology systems for oil spill bioremediation and biocompatible 3D printing.

Vlad is now leading our hardware team through the product development lifecycle.