Clyde Beattie
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| Country: | Canada |
| Email: | clyde[at]beattie.ca |
| LinkedIn: |  Clyde Beattie
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Clyde Beattie is CEO of a number of companies, and has investments and leadership roles in a number of other organizations. He is Founder and CEO of Antris, a web and mobile app for adventurers and lone worker trip plan monitoring and security management; CEO of The Yorkland Group, a capital and management focused business and Chairman of Maglin, a commercial site furniture designer and manufacturer.
Beattie previously founded and was CEO of Aloak a Domain Registrar, Web Design & Hosting; and Founder and CEO of Execulink a Canadian ISP.
In a letter dated December 8th, 2011, Clyde Beattie, along with twenty-seven other domain name industry representatives, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support ICANN's new gTLD program, in response to the Senate Hearings taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial and noted that the program took a diverse group of international stakeholders years to develop.[1] The letter can be found here.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Serial Entrepreneur, Investor and Leader for 30 years.
- Start-up Ventures in Retail, Wholesale, Industrial and Tech Internet sectors.
- Senior Management and Corporate Governance in Public, Private and Not-For-Profit sectors.
- Active Collaborator on International DNS Governance Policy development.
- Leadership roles as Investor, Senior Officer, Director and Board Chair in a variety of private and
- public sector SMEs and multi-stakeholder Not-For-Profit organizations.
- Mentor and Advisor to Entrepreneurs, Small Business, Not-For-Profits and Professionals.
Occupation & Experience
Pro Bono Activities
- Represented CIRA at 12 global ICANN conferences 2004-2008
- Represented IFFOR at 3 global ICANN conferences 2010-2012
- Canadian Internet Registry Authority CIRA The .CA Top-Level Domain
- - Past-Chairman (ex-officio) 2007-2008
- - Chairman (elected annually) 2004-2006
- - Director (appointed by Gov't of Canada) 2001-2006
- Fanshawe College; School of Information Technology College
- - Advisory Committee Member 2010-cont.
- Canadian Association of Internet Providers, (CAIP), (ISP)
- - Director (elected) 2000-2003
Current Business Interests
- Antris - Web & Mobile app for personal and enterprise trip plans and security
- - Founder & CEO 2012 - present
- Yorkland Investments Management Corp - Private investment and holding company
- - Founder & CEO 1982– present
- Maglin Site Furniture Inc. - Commercial Site Furniture Manufacturer
- - Principal, Director & CEO 1995 - present.
Past Business Interests
- - Chairman 2011- 2014
- Aloak Inc. - Domain Registrar, Web Design & Hosting
- - Founder & CEO 2000-2005 successfully sold
- Execulink Internet Services Ltd. (ISP)
- - Principal, President & CEO 1994-1999 successfully sold
Recognition
- Honored by Canada's Minister of Industry and CANARIE,
- Canada's Advanced Internet organization, for contribution to the founding and
- building of the dot-ca domain. 2001
- “There are few entrepreneurs like Clyde. He is a true visionary and has a
- great understanding of "the next big thing" on the internet. His selfless
- dedication on ICANN, and CIRA demonstrate his commitment to the
- internet community as well.” February 17, 2011
- Colin Campbell, CEO, Hostopia
Favorite Quotation
"Far Better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt