Executive Team

Ross MacLeod (President and Chief Executive Officer)
Ross MacLeod joined Zeligsoft in January 2008 as President and Chief Executive Officer, bringing 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and embedded platform industries. Prior to joining Zeligsoft, Ross held senior executive positions at Nortel and RadiSys and has advised leading technology companies on product development and management. During his distinguished career Ross has performed a variety of executive and senior management functions in R&D, operations and product and business management and has been responsible for leading global operations and R&D efforts in Europe, Asia and North America. While with Nortel, he was responsible for the company’s main product R&D lab in China, the former Computing Research Lab in Ottawa, Canada, and managed the multinational wireless 3G R&D program from Nortel’s lab outside Paris, France. Ross is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Francis Bordeleau, Ph.D. (Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Product Strategy)
Francis provides strategic leadership for Zeligsoft’s product vision and serves as the company’s primary technology expert. Since founding the company in 2002, Francis has built a world class management, advisory and development team, developed strategic partnerships with key companies in the embedded systems development value chain, and established a worldwide sales team designed to serve Fortune 500 customers. Prior to founding Zeligsoft, Francis was an Assistant Professor at Carleton University where he focused his research on Model Driven Development (MDD) and advanced software engineering tools and techniques. He has over 15 years experience with MDD, software engineering and software-defined radio systems, working, consulting and collaborating with numerous companies, including Rational Software, Mercury Computer Systems, Nortel, CML Technology and Versatel Networks. Francis holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Montreal, a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Quebec, and a Master in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University.

Jeff Potts (Chief Financial Officer)
Jeff Potts, a seasoned financial executive with 20 years of experience, is responsible for finance, administration and legal affairs at Zeligsoft. Since joining Zeligsoft, Jeff has been instrumental in closing Zeligsoft’s equity financing. Jeff has a proven track record of managing and scaling finance, treasury and operations in technology companies. Before joining Zeligsoft, Jeff held CFO positions at GotMarketing where he performed a wide range of financial and administrative functions including private placements, financial operations and strategic vendor negotiations, and at other technology start-ups, where he secured financing in excess of $50M. Jeff was also the former CFO at E-Cruiter.com and led them to a public offering on NASDAQ. Jeff graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University and earned his designation as a Chartered Accountant at Arthur Andersen.

Kamal Krishnapillai (Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations)
In his role leading worldwide field operations, Kamal is accountable for sales, applications engineering, product delivery and customer support in all of Zeligsoft’s markets. Since joining Zeligsoft in January 2005 as Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Kamal has overseen the growth of Zeligsoft’s customer base to include the largest and most well respected communications equipment vendors in the world. Prior to Zeligsoft, Kamal was with Radstone and ICS (now GE Fanuc), where he grew sales from $3M to $18M in four years and developed the company’s software-defined radio market. Prior to ICS and Radstone, Kamal was with QNX Software Ltd. As an avid promoter of Ottawa’s technology business community, he founded and built Ottawa’s Wireless Cluster and co-founded and established Ottawa’s e-Business Cluster. He is a recipient of Ottawa Business Journal’s prestigious Forty under 40 leadership award. Kamal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Business, and an executive MBA from the University of Ottawa.

Simon Redding (Vice President, Product Development)
Simon Redding joined Zeligsoft in 2007 with responsibility for leading Zeligsoft’s development team. Simon brings over 20 years of experience in embedded software design and tools development, and is passionate about leveraging designer skill and time through advanced technology. Prior to joining Zeligsoft, Simon headed software teams at JDS Uniphase and Innovance Networks developing advanced optical and photonic products for networking, telecommunications, and test and measurement. He spent 4 years at ObjecTime and Rational Software, with overall responsibility for key components for the industry standard Rose and Rose RealTime UML-based modeling tools. At BNR/Nortel, Simon worked in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, including development of compilers, operating systems, fault tolerant frameworks and optical amplifiers. Simon holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from McGill University and a Master in Computer Science from Concordia University, both in Montreal, Quebec.