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Christie Christelis 
President and CEO

Christie is the founder of Technology Strategies International. He has directed more than 300 technology market research and strategy consulting assignments covering a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, advanced materials, biotechnology, information technology, electronics, environment, process controls, pumps and valves, telecommunications, interactive television, manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceuticals and energy. He has been consulting to clients from technology-driven industries for more than two decades. 

Christie established Technology Surveys International Inc. in Canada in 1995. During the period 1995 to 1997 he worked closely with Market Facts of Canada Ltd (now Synovate) to establish an industrial market research and business consulting capability. Since then he has established TSI as a leading provider of global market intelligence.

Over the past two decades Christie has assisted both global leaders and SME’s in the development of their competitive strategies and conducted in-depth market research, industry analysis, competitive intelligence and techno-economic analysis for clients. He has worked at the industry policy level, having successfully completed assignments on IT industry strategy development, industry clusters and cluster development, science and technology policy, and international competitiveness. He has conducted technology market research and intelligence assignments spanning more than 60 countries, and has held permanent positions in Canada and South Africa.  

Christie has a B.Sc. (Eng) in electronics, a Graduate Diploma in Engineering and an MBA.  He is on the Board of the Canada-South Africa Chamber of Business. He served as the Chair of the Internet Market Research Working Group, and on the Authentication and Validation Working Group of the Industry Canada Spam Task Force. Christie lives in Toronto, Canada, but has active business ties with a number of countries around the world.

Murray Johnston
Consultant

Mr. Murray Johnston has over 30 years’ of progressive experience and success in understanding, communicating and implementing electronic business products and solutions. He has a long and successful track record as a product manager, project manager and consultant in developing, operating and implementing IT business solutions and services in Government, Financial Institutions and IT industries. Since 1986, Mr. Johnston has worked extensively in the area of payments systems, both domestically and globally, focusing on electronic commerce and smart card solutions. He is an expert in the area of electronic payment and electronic commerce technologies, products, channels, services and regulated environments. Mr. Johnston has worked on many successful technology based business initiatives and has deep insight into the business needs, technical infrastructures, systems and processes involved in such implementations. His career has evolved from building the EFT system at CIBC, to working on global smart card implementations while at DMR/Amdahl/Fujitsu. He has served on the Canadian Payments Association working groups dealing with Automatic Funds Transfer and cross-border transactions. Mr. Johnston’s major strengths are creative problem solving, team building, stakeholder communications and successful smart card and electronic commerce implementations. He has extensive and comprehensive expertise and mature skills in applying global best practices and disciplines.