Directors

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AccelRate’s board of directors is responsible for the overall corporate governance of the Corporation and oversees and directs the management of the company’s business affairs. The board is composed of a majority of independent and unrelated directors.


Caspar Koch

Caspar Koch, Chairman

Mr. Koch, the company’s founder, has had a broad, varied and consistently successful business career, involving real estate development, insurance, and the automobile industry (fourteen years as a senior Volkswagen executive). It was the visionary Mr. Koch who led the company into the field of advanced power technologies.


Reimar Koch

Reimar Koch, President, CEO & Director

Mr. Koch is an entrepreneur with a proven history of building new ventures into successful businesses. As CEO of Cellular Direct, he took this cell phone company from inception to a multi-unit chain serving major corporate clients--e.g., Pacific Press, Ministry of Social Services--achieving annual sales in the multi-millions.


Ian M. Adam

Ian M. Adam, F.C.A., Director

Mr. Adam is a former partner of Ernst & Young, Chartered Accountants. He served as the principal engagement partner for clients in both public and private sectors, with particular expertise in high technology and natural resource based industries. Mr. Adam has over 40 years experience in public accounting.


Ronald M. Snyder

Ronald M. Snyder, Director

Mr. Snyder is a partner at the law firm Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLP, servicing clients in both Ottawa and Vancouver. With an MBA in the field of international business, he is also a noted expert in the area of human resource law and is an author of textbooks which are sold widely throughout Canada.