William G. Hutchison, P.Eng, FCIPS
President, Hutchison Management International
Chairman, Lavell Systems Inc.
Inductee, CIPA Hall of Fame, 2000

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Bill Hutchison was Global Chairman, Telecommunications Industry for Ernst & Young and a senior executive with Honeywell and Arthur Andersen. He has been the turnaround CEO and President of four other public and private companies and has founded four of his own companies, all in the IT, telecommunications and media industries. His focus has been the successful restructuring of companies for growth of 200% to 300% over three year periods in Europe, Asia and North America.

Today, Bill Hutchison has his own consulting practice, chairs Waterfront Toronto's i-Waterfront Advisory Council, and leads the planning for an ultra broadband communications infrastructure to create one of the world's leading "intelligent communities" as part of the $17 billion revitalization of Toronto's central waterfront. He is Chairman of Lavell Systems Inc, a satellite communications firm and he is a member of the board of directors of Balaton Group Inc, a firm of corporate architects, specializing in architecting and investing in special business situations to create new value. He also serves as the Founding Chair of KINSA: The Kids' Internet Safety Alliance and as Chair of the KINSA Foundation.

Hailed in 2005 by a panel of business and technology editors as "One of Canada's Top 30 Movers and Shakers over the Past 30 years", Mr. Hutchison has been a global leader in creating new national and local economic development initiatives focused on the new technologies. He was the founding vice-chairman of the National Advisory Board for Science and Technology, chaired by the Prime Minister of Canada, and he was the founding chairman of CANARIE Inc., which for the past fourteen years has led the development of Canada's world renowned advanced ultra broadband Internet research and education infrastructure.

Bill Hutchison has advised the Hong Kong government on the creation of Hong Kong's celebrated Cyberport and he established the first American owned technology centre in Malaysia's Multi Media Super Corridor, one of the world's largest infrastructure developments in the late '90s. He has been a founding chair or director of eight other public initiatives designed to ensure Canada's continuing economic and social leadership during the global technological transformation. His roles have included founding investor and director of Precarn, the national robotics and intelligent systems centre of excellence, director of the Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Institute, director of le centre de recherche informatique de Montreal, founding chair of the Canadian information Productivity Awards, founding director and chairman of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and former Governor of the Information Technology Association of Canada.

In recognition of his contributions and achievements, Bill Hutchison received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Intelligent Community Forum in New York. He is a "Fellow" of the Canadian Information Processing Society and previously he received their Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award "For Professionalism and Integrity. He was elected to the Hall of Fame of the Canadian Information Productivity Awards and he has received the Research in Motion Private Sector Leadership Award from the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance.