Derek Johannson

Derek started his business career with Proctor and Gamble after completing his Commerce Honors degree from the University of Manitoba in 3 ½ years versus the standard 4. In 1980 with his father and mother he started Carlyle Computer Products in his parents basement. Seventeen years later Carlyle had grown to be the largest Computer Supplies Distribution Company in Canada with seven offices across western Canada and over 130 employees. During those seventeen years Derek was recognized as one of the Top 40 Under 40 in Canada, was a regional Finalist of the Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year, and Honorary Chairman of Small Business Week. In addition Carlyle Computer Products under Derek's Presidency was named one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Private companies in 1994 and again in 1996.

In June of 1997 Derek sold Carlyle Computer Products to Grand & Toy (Canada's largest commercial office products company), and continued to direct the strategy of their computer supplies business till 1999. At that time he returned to his entrepreneurial roots to be CEO of New World Technologies Inc a company he had started in 1992 to remanufacture Laser Printer Toner Cartridges.

Derek has been directly involved in the starting and running of numerous companies which includes Mirror Image Services a private company specializing on computer media (diskettes and CD) replication, SE Renewable Logistics that focuses on the collection of empty toner and ink cartridges, and LPS Laser Printer Specialists a printer service and repair company. His newest venture is Carlyle Printer, Service, & Supplies Ltd. where he is assisting his sons in developing a new business model in the desktop printer fleet management market.

Derek' past Board involvement include Chair of the Manitoba Research Council, Chair of the Urban Shared Services Corporation, Chair of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Canada, director of YPO International, YFC, Innovation Technology fund, True North Entertainment Inc., and St. Genevieve Resources LTD. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Online Business Systems, Shop To It, Institute of Corporate Directors (Manitoba), and Health Science Center Foundation.

Derek enjoys traveling with his family, the theatre, and is an avid golfer.

Michael Banman

Michael has participated in several architecture competitions, most notably receiving first prize for the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland's Idea's Competition to Design an Ideal Library for the 21st Century in 2005. In 2007 he became a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and earned the LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] Accredited professional designation in 2008 and the LEED AP with specialty in Building Design + Construction in 2011.

Michael has over 5 years of architectural experience working on commercial, cultural, industrial, and institutional projects. Michael practices with a disciplined approach to building science, construction, and cost management, delivering projects that are not only innovative and carefully crafted, but well considered and practical.

While working with Stantec Architecture Winnipeg, Michael has been a project designer on several projects with the firm, including leading the design of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre Feasibility Study, Morden; 4 New Service Centre's for Manitoba Public Insurance [all targeting LEED Silver]; the City of Dryden, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Dryden [currently under construction, the first Wastewater Treatment Plant targeting LEED certified in North America], and 311 Centrepoint, a mixed-use hospitality, office and boutique hotel in downtown Winnipeg across from the MTS Centre.

Michael maintains an ongoing interest in architectural education and has been a guest critic of student work at the University of Manitoba and Texas Tech University. He believes in the public promotion of architecture and participation in the ongoing discussion of architecture, culture, and idea's, and was an invited to presenter at 10 x 20 x 20 in 2008.

Michael's interest in technology and digital media began while employing cad-cam technologies in developing a prototype for a Saccadic drawing table, a more immersive picture plain. He has little interest in technology for its own sake, but in it's potential to explore new idea's and spaces through rapid prototyping, enabling and developing new methods and processes construction through CAD-CAM, and teasing out more affordable and sustainable work through parametric analysis, while encouraging a greater degree of communication and collaboration between design team members, including contractors and clients.