Global Leaders

John P. A. Budreski joins EnWave with over 30 years of extensive capital markets and executive management experience. Mr. Budreski has a professional history of advancing and accelerating businesses, as well as tangible engineering experience.

He was formerly a Vice Chairman of Cormark Securities Inc. from 2009 to 2012 and President and CEO of Orion Securities Inc. from 2005 to 2007, prior to its successful sale to Macquarie Bank. He has filled the roles of a Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets and Head of Investment Banking for Scotia Capital Inc. from March 1998 to February 2005 after starting out as a Managing Director of US Institutional Equity Group for Scotia Capital. He also held senior roles in investment banking and equity sales and trading for RBC Dominion Securities.

Mr. Budreski is currently a Director of Sandstorm Gold Ltd., Alaris Royalty Corporation and Input Capital. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Morien Resources Corporation.

Brent Charleton has extensive experience working in competitive team-based environments in public, private, and not-for-profit industries. He has managed the marketing, investor relations and corporate affairs mandates for EnWave Corporation since 2010.

Brent, an ex-professional athlete, is a graduate of the Marketing Management program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology and Communications from Simon Fraser University.

Brent Charleton has completed the Canadian Securities Course and is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® Designation.

Dr. Sandberg is a former long-time employee of Lipton, a division of Unilever Canada Inc. and holds a Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of British Columbia.

He was the Program Head of Food Technology, School of Health Sciences, at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and an active contributor to many of EnWave’s product development projects for potential commercial licensees.

Dr. Stewart Ritchie is the President of Canadian Poultry Consultants and S.J. Ritchie Research Farms.

He developed and has been participating in the Platinum Brooding® program since inception. The Platinum Brooding® program is an educational session used by poultry producers to promote poultry health and is now part of the curriculum at the University of Georgia, Master of Avian Medicine program and the Aviagen International Broiler Production School in Alabama. The Platinum Brooding® program is now part of the New Producer Entrant program of the British Columbia Broiler Chicken Marketing Board.

He has now completed his term as President of the American Association of Avian Pathologists (AAAP).

Stew was the founder of the Western Meeting of Poultry Clinicians and Pathologists in 1990 and is a member and has participated in numerous poultry production and scientific sessions throughout the globe.

Hugh McKinnon is a Director and shareholder of Norscot Investments Ltd., a privately held company with extensive interests in media and residential/commercial developments in Washington State, British Columbia and Alberta.

Mr. McKinnon has an extensive background in broadcasting communications, having served as President and CEO of Okanagan Skeena Ltd., Nornet Broadcasting Ltd., and Central Island Radio. He was also a Director (since 1999) and former Chairman of the Board (from 2000-2005) of Rainmaker Income Fund and Chairman (2004- 2007) of The Beat Broadcasting Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He is currently a director (since January 2007) of Premium Brands Holding. Mr. McKinnon is also currently a director of Castanet.net, a privately held internet media company based in Kelowna, British Columbia. Mr. McKinnon is currently a director of the Vancouver Canucks Sports Celebrity Dinner that raises money for Canuck Place for kids and the Special Olympics. He was previously a director of the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters, and a director of Canadian Women in Communications.

Mary C. Ritchie is an extremely distinguished business person who has over 30 years of experience working in both the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Ms. Ritchie is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Richford Holdings Ltd., an accounting and investment advisory services company; a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta; the Chairman of the Financial Advisory Committees of RBC Funds Inc. and RBC Advisor Global Fund Inc; and a member of the Board of Directors of Industrial Alliance Ltd. and Alaris Royalty Corporation.

She also is on the three-member advisory committee for Natural Resources Canada; a member of the Board of Directors for the Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDIC); and on the three-member advisory committee for the Privy Council of Canada.