More than a century of experience in intelligent workplace & workforce management

Teletrips has assembled a world-class team of pioneers and industry experts in the fields of workforce and workplace design, emissions management and triple bottom line reporting.   The Teletrips team brings a deep base of experience that includes decades of operating experience within leading technology companies and new venture development.

Management Team

President & CEO – Ian Gover

Ian has more than 15 years of experience in technology enabled business transformation, helping organizations improve their triple bottom line performance through intelligent workplace and workforce management.  He has worked with public sector organizations and Fortune 500 companies around the world to help them improve employee effectiveness, drive millions in operational savings, and achieve significant improvements in environmental efficiency.  As President & CEO of Teletrips, Ian provides direction and leadership on the achievement of the Teletrips' mission, strategy, and drives the accomplishments of the company’s long-range goals.  Prior to Teletrips, Ian held executive and senior management positions with Sun Microsystems and PricewaterhouseCoopers.  He holds a Master of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic in New York.

Founder & SVP Business Development – Scott Fleming

Scott is exemplar of the entrepreneurial energy and focus that characterizes the Teletrips vision.  He is the founder and principal visionary of Teletrips, commencing its operations with the simple view of accelerating the adoption of agile work-practices and workplaces.  Scott was formerly a member of the National Steering Committee of the federally-funded eCommute pilot program.  The eCommute pilot program was overseen by the US EPA and coordinated by the Global Environmental Technology Foundation and ran from 2000 until 2004.  Prior to Teletrips, Scott acquired extensive senior-level experience in technology sales and marketing. He has been National Sales Manager for General Electric; Director of U.S. Sales and Marketing for Manufacturers Finance; and Sales Manager for Sun Microsystems.

SVP Decision Systems – Dave Hawkins

Dave has 17 years experience running Facet Decision Systems.  Dave initiated the spin-off of Facet Decision Systems from MacDonald Dettwiler, Canada's leading aerospace and technology company. Over the last 17 years as President of Facet, he led technology and consulting teams that developed web-based 3BL and scenario-based decision support technologies for Fortune 1000 companies, and government agencies responsible for energy, natural resources, community planning, and environmental policy decision making.  Prior to establishing Facet, Dave spent close to 15 years leading technical and marketing teams in a variety of ground-breaking technology initiatives.

Vice President Enterprise Solutions – Scott Ekman

Scott a licensed architect with over 20 years of experience in workplace research, design, implementation, and operations throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He has developed and managed innovative and effective work environments, meeting the needs of the business and supporting key work activities of employees, resulting in the savings of hundreds of millions of dollars.   Scott is the Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Teletrips, in this capacity he has overall responsibility for the development of new product solutions and consulting services for customers globally, including discovery, design, and implementation.

Vice President Customer Enablement – Glenn Dirks

Glenn has over 30 years experience in facilities management, environment, health and safety and human resources with public and private organizations and regulatory agencies. During this time, he became nationally recognized for developing and implementing innovative, organizational management techniques for corporate mobile work programs in North America, Europe and Asia.  Glenn is currently the Vice President of Customer and Channel Enablement for Teletrips.  In this capacity he has overall responsibility for channel partner development and relationship management.  In addition, Glenn has responsibility for supporting customers that are currently leveraging the Teletrips Intelligent Enterprise Platform.

Vice President Information Technology – Marc Kelly

Marc has more than 20 years experience with small and large organizations in both the United States and Canada. He has managed both in-house and outsourced teams for several web-based technology projects. Marc is the Vice President of Information Technology for Teletrips. In this capacity, he has overall responsibility for the architecture, development, and maintenance of the company’s Software-as-a-Service model.

Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board - Guy Nelson

Guy brings to Teletrips a strong executive management track record of more than two decades in the service, manufacturing, financial and technology sectors. Adept at strategically assembling the expertise and resources needed to manufacture or provide leading edge industrial, commercial and institutional products and services, Guy is currently Chairman & CEO of Empire Industries Ltd., an 800-employee engineering, fabrication and construction services company with four business units based in Western Canada. The company has current consolidated revenues of approximately $200 million.

A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Ivey School of Business, (MBA, 1979), Guy was previously a member of senior management at Trimac Limited, Lancaster Financial, Cavendish Investing Ltd. and Bracknell Corporation. He was instrumental in taking Bracknell from a start-up company in 1988 to one of the largest technical services companies in Canada with revenues in excess of $450 million and a market capitalization of approximately $150 million. 

Board Member & Chief Counsel - Scott Reeves

Scott is a partner with TingleMerrett focused on securities, corporate finance and commercial transactions for emerging and growth companies and partnerships. He has advised numerous private and public corporations in a wide range of business matters including access to capital markets, corporate governance and operational issues.   He acts for a large number of TSX and TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, technology, biotechnology and industrial issuers. Scott has extensive experience in private and public debt and equity offerings, corporate acquisitions of assets and shares, corporate restructurings and debt financing. He also acts a director and/or corporate secretary for many public and private companies, providing detailed corporate governance and continuous disclosure advice to his clients.  Scott has both law and bachelor of commerce degrees (with distinction) from the University of Alberta where he served as editor in chief for the Alberta Law Review. He has received numerous academic and community service awards and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of growth financing, stock exchange listing and corporate governance.

Ian Gover, Scott Fleming and Dave Hawkins also serve on the Board of Directors

Teletrips History

Teletrips brings together three organizations with strong legacies in distributed work, all sharing the philosophy that program decisions must be anchored in real data:

Teletrips

Was founded in 2001 to track and capture carbon emissions savings from mobile sources created by telework and other trip avoidance behaviour. Teletrips’ robust tracking and measurement tools have been used by the US EPA, and Canada’s annual Commuter Challenge, as well as other government agencies, and private corporations in both the US and Canada. Over the past few years Teletrips tools have been expanded to measure a broad suite of environmental, societal, financial, and economic impacts that accrue from distributed work.

Sun Open Work Practice

In early 2008 Teletrips merged with the former practice leaders from Sun Microsystems’ Open Work team. Over the last 12 years, this team has designed and implemented telework programs in every major world market for both private and public organizations. Their method leverages a proven framework for integrating the Human Resources, Real Estate/Workplace, and Information Technology components necessary for successful distributed work. A key part of the approach focuses on developing telework skills for employees, showing their managers and companies how to manage and support them for best results.

Facet Decision Systems Inc.

Was founded in 1991, and is a world leader in Triple Bottom Line (3BL) decision support tools and process. Their methodology ties implementation to a clear set of intended business outcomes, supported by consistent policies, and tracked with a suite of tools that measure 3BL (financial/economic, environmental, and social) impacts of telework programs. This is the only telework planning and monitoring suite that integrates corporate, public sector, and individual employee stakeholder needs into a common framework.

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