Board of Directors

FABIO DONINELLI
Director and Chairman of the Board

Mr. Doninelli is President and Board Member of Prismafin S.A., an international investment organization with offices in Chiasso and Zurich, Switzerland, which manages a fund in excess of US$750 million. Mr. Doninelli has extensive experience in strategic advisory, portfolio management, and structuring funds. From 1982 to 1986, Mr. Doninelli served as Vice President of Trading for the Zurich Stock Exchange. Mr. Doninelli also serves as Strategy Advisor to the Boards of several public and private companies around the world. Mr. Doninelli, who lives in Mendrisio Switzerland, exercises direction over the 1,985,575 Norsat common shares held by Prismafin S.A.

JOSEPH CAPRIO
Director and US Chairman

Joseph M. Caprio has 35 years of experience as a recognized organizational development expert. Mr. Caprio is a former Associate Dean at Colgate University and has served as a management consultant and as the operating officer of entrepreneurial businesses. Mr. Caprio, who lives in New York, is a strong proponent of the participative management philosophy of the American Management Association and has counseled a number of successful organizations. Mr. Caprio holds a BS degree in management from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI and an MA degree from Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

JAMES TOPHAM
Director and Chair of Audit Committee

Mr. Topham has 30 years of public practice experience as a Chartered Accountant and prior to his retirement in 2008, was a Technology Partner of KPMG’s Vancouver office. Mr. Topham currently serves as CFO of dPoint Technologies Inc., an energy recovery and fuel cell technology company and serves on the Board of three other public technology companies as well as several other private technology companies and other organizations.  Mr. Topham was also a founder and for the first nine years, board member of the BC Technology Industry Association (“BCTIA”). In 2003, Mr. Topham founded the predecessor to the BC Cleantech CEO Alliance, to promote the cleantech industry in BC.  He is a founder and currently Chair of BC Social Venture Partners, which has raised several million dollars towards funding specific community projects.  Mr. Topham has a computer science major and a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Honours, and was the most distinguished graduate, from the Commerce Faculty of the University of Saskatchewan (1972).

ANDREW HARRIES
Director

Mr. Harries has extensive experience in corporate strategy, financing, global alliances and business growth. A co-founder of Sierra Wireless, Inc. (TSX: SW), Mr. Harries played a major role in positioning that company to secure TSX and NASDAQ public listings and grow its annual revenues to over US $200 million. Most recently, Mr. Harries acted as founding President and CEO of Zeugma Systems, a telecommunications systems supplier that delivered open solutions to accelerate new service deployment for broadband service providers. In that role, he oversaw Zeugma’s evolution from initial seed funding in 2004, through development and commercialization to its sale to Tellabs, Inc. in November 2010. Currently, Mr. Harries Chairs the Board of Directors, Science World British Columbia and is Chair of Simon Fraser University Business Dean's External Advisory Board. Mr. Harries holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University.

AMIEE CHAN
Director

Dr. Amiee Chan has over 15 years of experience in executive management and research & development in the satellite industry. An accomplished engineer, she has been published over a dozen times, holds three US patents in satellite technologies, and has been involved in high level research teams such as the NASA ACTS Terminal Program. Offering a rare blend of technical and corporate strength, Dr. Chan has achieved great success through her management of numerous business units at Norsat. Prior to her promotion to President and CEO, Dr. Chan served as VP of Operations at Norsat, where she made significant improvements to R&D, Production, IT, Customer Service, Supply Chain and Logistics, Sales and Quality Control. Dr. Chan received her Executive MBA from Simon Fraser University where she majored in Strategy and New Ventures. She also holds a Ph. D. in Satellite Communications from the University of British Columbia. In 2008, she was the recipient of an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Most recently, she was named as an Influential Women in Business Award honoree by Business in Vancouver.