Barry Gander

Barry Gander has been working as a business development expert for three decades. He specializes in advanced technology, and has created compelling business development and advocacy programs around the world. His specialty is the invention of effective, creative new ways to expand a company’s business, either through selling more product, positioning it more forcefully, or establishing a better public policy environment. He was the author of a best-selling book on how to lobby the federal government, a second best-seller called “Fast Lane”, which crystallized the growth ideas of the pinnacle CEO’s from across Canada, and a landmark book called “SUCCESS”, which highlights the views of 100 of Canada’s top executives.

In his current work with CATA, Barry has created and executed the “TechAction Town Hall Program”, a pan-Canadian drive to increase the effectiveness of a community’s use of advanced technology, and is currently working on a drive to increase Canadian exports throughout the Commonwealth, in a program called the “Commonwealth Advantage”. Barry has helped increased the number of CATA members from 1,000 to 22,000 over the past five years, creating Canada’s largest network of companies devoted to high technology. He has expanded this network into NAFTA, by forming the “NAFTA Advanced Technology Alliance” with his American and Mexican counterparts.