IBBAKA PEOPLE

Meet the team

Ibbaka is made up of savvy entrepreneurs and industry experts, bringing years of experience to help our team scale, grow, and succeed. They cultivate our strong culture and work tirelessly for the mutual success of Ibbaka and our customers. Go to the Executive or Governance Board.

Executive

The team has extensive experience in market segmentation, pricing and product development at companies of all scales, from Fortune 50 to pre-revenue start-ups.

Steven Forth

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer
Steven is responsible for Ibbaka’s strategic direction and key relationships. He is an expert in marketing strategy (segmentation, targeting, revenue models, pricing), human & organizational performance, learning and knowledge management. Named one of the top 10 pricing authorities in the world by OpenView Venture Partners, Steven has helped companies from Fortune 500 to start-ups drive returns and increase profits. Steven also serves as CEO and Director at TeamFit a company he co-founded. Prior, he founded and served as CEO at LeveragePoint Innovations, Inc., a firm that provides a value-based pricing platform. He served as the Vice President of Online Solutions at Monitor Group, later Monitor Deloitte, where he enabled rapid growth for clients. Steven is frequently found with books at hand, on a bike, enjoying his family, poetry, cooking and watching the Gilmore Girls.
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Karen Chiang

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Karen is responsible for Ibbaka’s overall strategy, operations, and product direction. She ensures that Ibbaka clients derive continuing value from Ibbaka's solutions. As a senior consultant, Karen’s domain interests and expertise include go-to-market strategy—specializing in market segmentation and pricing. She is passionate about performance, the team and the dynamics needed to achieve managed growth. Karen is also the COO of TeamFit. Prior, she managed a technology services provider of enterprise applications (custom, IBM and Microsoft). A strong supporter of innovation, Karen is an angel investor through E-Fund, where she is involved in due diligence on early-stage companies. She is also a mentor with the SHAD Valley program. Karen now spends her free time rereading the classics with her high-school-aged children and enjoys the great food of Vancouver. She loves to travel, and exploring different cultures and food.
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Lee Iverson

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Lee is passionate about doing work that significantly poses a challenge. His experience in software engineering and research is truly diverse, but the common theme is making systems more intelligent so that they are better able to interact with users. Lee has a Ph.D. in computer vision and the centre of his recent endeavour around artificial intelligence, machine learning, privacy and security. Lee also can be found with a book or his iPad. A deep learner, and a great teacher as a result, Lee can provide insightful commentary on a wide range of topics: sports, music, film, literature, language... the list is long.
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Governance Board

Malcolm Collings

Board Chair
Malcolm is a general manager by training and an entrepreneur by nature. He invests in private growth firms and works with them on execution or commercialization issues. Malcolm has invested in and been a director of several Vancouver-area media and communications technology companies over the past 15 years, including Mailchannels. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s School of Business Administration, he has a special interest in fostering innovative projects in the areas of environmental sustainability and social justice. Malcolm is an accomplished yachtsman and understands how skills and teams can combine to drive success.
Steven Forth

Director, Co-Founder
Steven works closely with our customers to understand how the role of teams is changing and where companies are going to find top talent. His main job is to take these insights and work with the team to develop solutions that support high-performance teams. He combines experience in growing early-stage companies with high-level strategy consulting.
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Karen Chiang

Board Secretary, Director, Co-Founder
Karen works closely with C-level and executive teams to drive strategic investments that will increase growth and valuation. Her key interests are understanding what feeds performance, specifically in the area of creating continuous and positive engagement.
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Amar Dhaliwal

Director, Co-Founder
Amar grounds us in the reality of how companies work and what people want to achieve in their careers. A leader in the talent management industry (he was co-founder of Thinq, which was acquired by Saba in 2005), he has led the development of the systems used at some of the world’s largest companies for learning and talent management.
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Kirk Hamilton

Director
Kirk is a Senior Executive and Leadership Coach with 35 years of proven results as an executive building profitability growth in technology businesses. Leveraging a breadth of experience in marketing, financing and operating high-growth technology companies, Kirk has had a transformative impact on the companies he engages with. Before moving to an investor and advisory role, he was CEO of NBS Technologies, a global provider of equipment and software to the smart card industry. Kirk contributes to Vancouver’s technology start-up community as an Executive in Residence for the BC Innovation Council.
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