Management Team Stephen Long President and CEO Chung Ming Tam Vice President, Technology Christopher LeClair Strategic Advisor Stephen Long President and CEO Steve would like to see all associations have the opportunity to achieve their potential in what is becoming an Internet driven society. Throughout his years of experience working for and consulting to associations he has also witnessed the impact that the Internet can have for those organizations that recognize its value and effectively introduce it into their organizational framework. Following a period of employment as Director of Operations and Business Development for Metame.com Inc., an Internet technology company, he is pleased to be able to apply his knowledge of the Internet and association sectors with LEVERUS Inc. In his position with Metame.com Steve participated in strategic planning for a cross section of business operations and provided management for the company across functional divisions. Previously, he was President of SLC & Associates, a private consulting firm representing the interests of large industrial organizations and their relationship with the Canadian government. As a consultant to the association sector Steve often focussed on using economic and public policy analysis to develop information-based strategies to enhance the international competitiveness of Canadian industry. He has completed many projects for industry associations that have examined sectoral structure, change factors and competitiveness constraints. These have included the examination of human resource needs, market development opportunities and comparative analyses of the regulatory environment for specific industry sub-sectors. He has also been a senior analyst for a leading national association. Steve holds an MA in Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration from Carleton University. Chung Ming Tam Vice President, Technology Chung Ming Tam serves as the Vice President, Technology at Leverus. Chung Ming brings 12 years of scientific, technology and Internet experience to Leverus. Prior to joining Leverus, he was the founder and CEO of Metame.com, an Internet company specializing in web service aggregation, identity management and single sign-in solutions. He also spent 3 years as Boardmember and on the management team of Cyberus Inc., one of the largest Internet service providers in Canada. Previous to that, Chung Ming was a research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). During his tenure at the NRC, he was responsible for the application of innovative solutions to practical industrial problems. He holds a patent and is the author of more than 35 papers. Chung Ming has a BASc from the University of Ottawa. He was also enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Western Ontario before joining the private sector. Christopher LeClair Strategic Advisor Chris LeClair is at the forefront of Canada's consulting community in the field of organizational analysis and strategic planning for not-for-profit organizations and industry associations. Over the last decade, he has worked for over 100 organizations from all across Canada. He has pioneered techniques for organizational benchmarking which have systematically lead to more representative governance, enhanced government relations, effective management and improved member service delivery. Chris is the author of the first comprehensive study of Canadian industry associations, as compared with counterparts in Canada's major trading partner nations. Identifying best practices and service delivery models, this inaugural study represented the starting point for the re-engineering of both structure and service orientation of many of Canada's largest business sectoral organizations. In 1997, he was asked by Industry Canada to update the results of his extensive research, much of which has been embraced by major national industry associations as the basis for organizational reform. In addition to his consulting work, Chris is a regular speaker at association Annual Meetings and Conferences and is a frequent contributor to Association Magazine. Prior to entering the consulting field, Chris worked for a national association in the area of membership recruitment and government relations. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bishop's University and a Master of Arts in Political Science from McMaster University.