Blair Canavan
Director of Business Development, Digital Identity & Security, Thales
Blair has 30+ years of IT security sales, channel, marketing and business development experience starting as Symantec’s 1st Canadian employee. Blair continuously expanded his cryptographic and cybersecurity knowledge with several start-ups including Chrysalis-ITS (Thales), AssetMetrix (Microsoft), Titus (Help Systems), InfoSec Global, Crypto4A and now is happily back with his data protection colleagues within Thales’ Global Alliances team. He is an avid presenter, start-up consultant and IT industry contributor. Blair holds an Hons.BA from the University of Waterloo.