LCol Bruce
Gilkes, Canadian Army (Ret.)
LCol Bruce Gilkes, Canadian Army (Ret.)
Senior Business Development Manager
VizworX
Mr. Bruce Gilkes is a Senior Business Development Manager with VizworX. VizworX is a Calgary-based enterprise software development company that helps clients to better understand and interact with their information. This includes specialization in Data Visualization and Analytics, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Their clients include Mercedes-Benz, Raytheon Technologies, Worley and major national and international energy companies.
Prior to VizworX, Mr. Gilkes founded and grew a Calgary-based startup into a Top 40 Canadian Defence Company in under six years and later into a multinational organization with nearly 85 personnel deployed across four continents.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Gilkes served full time and part time in the Canadian Army for 29 years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. After leaving full time military service, Mr. Gilkes worked for General Dynamics Canada as a System Architect on a $2B communications project for the Canadian Army. Also as CTO for an Ontario airport service company, Mr. Gilkes developed a “smart airport” suite of technologies and led a development team in the design, and delivery of several systems to the US Air Force, the Canadian Air Force and several commercial airports in Canada and the USA.
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