Management Team
Ray DePaul President and CEO
Ray has two decades of experience bringing successful high technology products to market. Most notably, Ray spent nearly five years with Research In Motion where he was responsible for all product management activities for the award winning BlackBerry product line. Ray has also played key roles in industries as diverse as investment banking, media servers, telecommunications, networking, and operating systems. Ray holds a Bachelors of Mathematics degree in Computer Science as well as a Masters of Business Administration.
Ray also serves on the Board of Directors for RapidMind Inc.
Derek Cardy Chief Financial Officer
With over 14 years in the investment and technology industries, Derek has a wealth of experience nurturing venture-back technology firms into successful, sustainable businesses. Before Joining RapidMind, Derek was the Chief Financial Officer of an RBC strategic investment, where he grew operations to include a customer base of 450 small businesses. Derek holds a B.Sc from the University of British Columbia, and is a registered Chartered Accountant.
Dr. Michael McCool Founder and Chief Scientist
Michael is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and co-founder of RapidMind. He continues to perform research within the Computer Graphics Lab at the University of Waterloo. Professor McCool has a diverse set of published papers, and his research interests include high-quality real-time rendering, global and local illumination, hardware algorithms, parallel computing, reconfigurable computing, interval and Monte Carlo methods and applications, end-user programming and metaprogramming, image and signal processing, and sampling. Michael has degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
Michael also serves on the Board of Directors for RapidMind Inc.
Ray Newmark VP, Worldwide Sales
Ray brings over twenty years of high tech leadership experience to RapidMind. He has held key management positions providing hardware and software solutions to the finance, telecommunications and ISV/OEM markets. Before joining RapidMind, Ray was the Vice President of Eastern Region software sales at Macrovision, a world leader in content protection, software licensing and digital rights management, where he grew the region’s revenue over 300 percent. Prior to Macrovision, Ray held positions of increasing responsibility in Sales Management, Direct Sales and Technical Sales at industry leaders Apollo Computer, CenterLine Software and Iona Technologies. Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
Matthew Monteyne VP, Marketing
Matthew most recently held a management position in the Enterprise Business Unit at Research in Motion (RIM). Matthew was responsible for defining and bringing to market wireless solutions serving both the enterprise and small/medium business markets as part of the BlackBerry offering. Prior to joining RIM, he held a product management position at PixStream, a successful start-up purchased by Cisco Systems. Matthew has an Engineering degree and a Masters of Business Administration.
Stefanus Du Toit Founder and Chief Architect
Stefanus is a co-founder of RapidMind. He has led the development and evolution of the RapidMind platform since 2003. Stefanus has extensive experience in the areas of graphics, GPGPU, systems programming, and compilers. Stefanus holds a Bachelors of Mathematics degree in Computer Science.