Michael Priest — Board Member

Mr. Priest graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Prior to university he filed for his first patent at 19 years old. He then worked in the telecommunications field for over 28 years with Telus. Prior to co-founding Lite Access Technologies in 2005, and then taking it public 2015 on the TSX-V and NYSE BB, Mr. Priest held various senior management positions in the telecommunications field including, Vice President of Sales for Teraspan Networks, and Telos technologies. There he managed international sales and was a key contributor to the engineering and design of fibre optic networks globally. He also sat on the economic advisory board for the City of Richmond, BC. for 8 years and was an active big brother for 20 years. He has also completed 50+ telecommunication, engineering and business courses over the past 20 years. Mr. Priest was a finalist for EY’s Entrepreneur of the year in 2017 where he was runner up. He is currently the Director of Catapult Industries, a entrepreneur launch company, a board member of Pathways clubhouse and the President & CEO of H2O leak detect.