ICP Solar Technologies has announced that Steve Carkner, P. Eng, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Panacis Medical has been appointed to the Board of Directors.
Sass Peress, ICP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented, "We are excited to have Steve join our board of directors. His experience and record of exceptional product innovation and commercialization with companies like Research in Motion and Energy Visions will prove invaluable as Steve has completed a number of key products in the portable power and environmental spaces including the successful development of power backup systems for the military, solar powered robotics and point-of-use consumer power monitors. We look forward to working with him as we pursue the exciting portable power market opportunities that lie ahead of us."
"I look forward to working with the ICP management team," commented Mr. Carkner. "For a company to succeed, it needs to start with quality people, innovative ideas, and a lot of focused effort. ICP Solar has all these key ingredients in place and I look forward to helping guide the company's rapid growth."
Prior to founding Panacis, Mr. Carkner was the Director of Product Development at Research In Motion (RIM). He was instrumental in the growth of RIM from a small 12-person consulting company into a multi-billion dollar wireless-focused corporation. He is listed as an inventor on a number of RIM's patents related to the Blackberry wireless pager and on several dozen patents world-wide. Mr. Carkner also took part in the marketing and business development of the corporation and was a key member of the team that guided RIM from pre to post IPO.
Mr. Carkner was a founder of Canada's National Angel Organization and was one of the youngest elected members of the Professional Engineers of Ontario council. His products have won a host of awards and have been featured in places like Popular Science and the Smithsonian Institute of Technology.
