Alan Werenko

Alan Werenko – Director

Don’t miss our blog post on Alan where we go into a bit more depth on the man with the “risk assessment plan”. Alan is a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario and holds a Master of Applied Science degree (1974) from the University of Waterloo. He began his entrepreneurial business career in 1974 as a partner to Mike Volker in Volker-Craig Ltd., a computer terminals company. His role as VP Marketing took the Company from $35 thousand in sales to $7 million worldwide in twenty countries in 1981, when it was sold to a TSE public company for $7 million. In 1984, he re-purchased the firm and took it private as Volker-Craig Technologies Ltd. and was its President until 1988 when it was purchased by Erni-Compro AG of Switzerland.

He continued to manage its Canadian and International Marketing operations including research and development and offshore manufacturing of computer products until 1990. In 1988 he developed a High Technology Business Centre in Waterloo and owned and managed it until its sale in 2004. Since 1978, Alan has worked extensively in Taiwan and Korea developing and marketing products to these countries as well as to Japan and Hong Kong. Currently he provides consulting, coaching and mentoring services to many executives and entrepreneurs involved in BC high tech companies.

He is a Term Professor at the Okanagan College Business School and lectures on Personal Success Strategies and Professional Selling. He is an active member of the Vancouver and Okanagan Angel Networks, the Okanagan Science and Technology Council OSTEC, and New Ventures BC. Since 2006 he has been a jury member for the New Ventures final jury rounds where the winners are selected each September in Vancouver. In 2007 he was on an International Jury for judging the Masters in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIE) Practicum Presentations at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Abu Dhabi.

A blog post about Alan written by the GAE team in November of 2011 can be found here: http://greenangelenergy.ca/alan-werenko-entrepreneur-greenangel-energy/