Jan Peeters – President & CEO

Jan is the CEO and controlling shareholder of Olameter Inc.  Prior to founding Olameter, Jan was the founder (1988) and CEO of ƒonorola Inc., a Canadian long distance telephone company and, at the time, the main developer of inter-city fiber-optic networks in both Canada and the northern United States.  The company was sold to Sprint in 1998 for C$1.8 billion.

Jan served for 20 years on the Board of the Cogeco companies (CGO & CCA, TSX-300), North America’s 8th largest cable company.  He stepped down as Chairman in 2018 having assured the succession of the new CEO.  Jan also served on the Board of Intersil Corporation, a semi-conductor company, from 2000 to 2016 (ISL, NASDAQ-100).  In 2016, Intersil was sold to Renesas Electronics for US$3.2 billion.

Jan is a Governor Emeritus of McGill University, having served on that Board from 1999 to 2008.  On McGill’s University’s behalf, he founded and chaired iNovia Capital from 2001-2011.  iNovia, based in Montréal, has raised in excess of US$1 billion through its various start-up and later-stage venture capital funds. Jan continues to sit on iNovia’s Investment Committee.

Derek Benson, CPA, CA – Chief Financial Officer, VP Finance & Administration

Derek oversees all aspects of finance. He is responsible for all accounting staff, as well as all treasury functions.  He works with the COO and CEO on the strategic and financial analysis of potential acquisitions. He is responsible for all financial reporting, including the issuance of the Annual Information Document. Derek started his career as an auditor for Ernst Young, prior to joining Olameter in 2011.

Jean-Pierre Carette, CPA, CA – Chief Operating Officer

Jean-Pierre (JP) was named COO of Olameter in 2018. In this capacity, he oversees all aspects of operations both in the United States and Canada. This includes day-to-day management of existing contracts, as well as preparing responses to requests for quotations. Prior to this, JP was CFO of Olameter since inception. Before Olameter, JP was the VP Finance and Administration of ƒonorola. While there, the company raised $350 million in the Canadian equity markets and negotiated a $185 million loan facility with a consortium of Canadian banks, before being sold to Sprint in 1998 for C$1.8 billion.  JP started his career as an auditor with KPMG.

Rachel Fuller – VP, US Operations

Rachel started her career in the staffing industry in 1991 with AMS Utiliserv. She quickly rose to the position of Vice President and was responsible for meter reading and meter services contracts with large utilities, such as Entergy.  In 2006, Rachel relocated to Houston and joined Unibar.  There she helped build their meter reading and meter services practice as Director of Operations.  Olameter purchased Unibar in 2012, and recognizing her talent, promoted Rachel to the position of Vice-President, US Operations. Rachel has managed meter services and underground locating contracts for over 80 utilities.

Leonard Gross – VP, Special Projects

Lenny leads the Olameter communications and distribution grid team in designing, building and operating the companies Internet of Things (IOT) initiative. Over the last 3 decades he has held progressive engineering positions, including CTO and Vice President of Engineering at ƒonorola where he was responsible for the building and operations of a USA/Canada-wide fiber-optic network which was acquired by Sprint in 1998 for $1.8 billion. Lenny later accepted the position of Vice President of Engineering Telecom and Smart Grid at Hydro One Networks where he lead a specialized engineering team towards the technical design and successful installation of 1.3 million smart meters and was part of the senior management team that was awarded Canada’s first UPN (Utility Planning Network) global award for this project.

Michael Lunau – Executive VP, Canadian Operations

Mike joined Olameter when it acquired URB in 2012.  He began his career in the utility industry in 1982 when he started out in the field with C&D Meter Reading Services, and rapidly rose to become the Director of Operations. As such, he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of meter reading, collection, and billing-related services. Following the acquisition of C&D Meter Reading Services by Schlumberger Industries in 1986, Mike assumed the role of Sales Manager, Field Services for the Canadian marketplace. In his current role, he oversees all Canadian field-related operations for Olameter.