IP Applications Management Team

IP Applications Management Team brings together a forward-looking, business-oriented leadership group with proven management experience in the communications and information technology industries: delivering performance-oriented, customer-focused solutions and growing companies into world-class operations.

John Jacobson, President & CEO, Director

John Jacobson has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and business leader at a number of technology product and service companies. He has an Honours BSc in Chemistry and Physics and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia.

Before joining IP Applications, John was President and Chief Executive Officer of Offshore Systems International Ltd. During his seven years at OSI, he built the company into the global leader in electronic navigation displays for navy vessels by partnering with some of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies.

From 1988 to 1996 John worked with MacDonald Dettweiler and Associates Ltd. as a Project Manager, Director of Engineering Services and Administration, Business Manager for Aeronautical Information Systems, and ultimately as the Chief Operating Officer of the PSC Group subsidiary. When the PSC Group was spun out as an independent company in 1996 he continued as its President. Under his leadership, PSC Group became Geotrain Corporation, the world’s largest outsourced training partner for Cisco Systems, with operations on three continents.

Richard Topham, Chief Financial Officer

Richard Topham brings extensive financial and management planning experience to IP Applications, having served in senior financial capacities for both publicly-traded and private high-technology companies during the past 12 years.

Following his tenure at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Richard began his career as a Chartered Accountant by spending eight years in financial management with companies tasked with developing next generation products for the wireless telecom and electric utility sectors. More recently, he has provided senior financial consulting services to various organizations involved in the software, health care and biotech sectors.

Richard Topham assumed his duties as Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis effective October 7th, 2005.

Tom Carter, Vice President of Operations

Tom Carter oversees the management of the Operational Support Systems, Help Desk product offerings and the Customer Service department within IP Applications. Tom brings six years of project management expertise with experience in both corporate and small / medium sized technology companies.

Tom holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia as well as a BA double major in History and Political Science. Prior to joining IP Applications, Tom worked with The Alderwoods Group and Stox.com.

Jason M. Grant, Director of Development

Jason M. Grant joined IP Applications in 2000, and possesses in-depth knowledge of the company's IP service delivery platforms.

As head of development, Jason is responsible for all product design and development activities related to the company's service delivery and support systems. Within IP Applications, Jason has served a critical role in guiding the development of the company's SaaS Automation Platform, Operational Support system (OSS) and trouble ticketing systems, as well as in managing critical due diligence processes with key clients, including AOL Canada and Sage Telecom. His technical skill and insights, based on ten years of dedicated IP service industry experience, are highly valued.

Prior to joining IP Applications, Jason held technical roles with national ISP, Internet Direct, as well as Canada's top-ranked Web hosting and domain registrar NetNation.

Kevin Lennox, Vice President, Sales

Kevin Lennox brings more than twenty five years of leadership in the technology services industry, with organizations ranging from large muti-nationals to startups.

Throughout the majority of his career Kevin has been responsible for achieving revenue targets through personal sales and managing dispersed sales teams. With Datatech as Director of Sales and Operations in the mid nineties he helped the company double its revenues winning several major new customers resulting in the eventual sale of the company to SHL. With SHL, and later EDS Kevin built and managed a national sales support team and provided training to sales executives throughout EDS North America. For Voyus Canada as Vice President of both Sales and Service, Kevin led both teams as the company grew from a startup to six offices and $22 million in revenue.

Kevin joined IP Applications in October of 2007 and is responsible for the company’s Sales and Marketing.