Leading the Charge
Eguana is dedicated to providing world-class products, technology, and people. Collectively, we are committed to building the Eguana brand, supporting our partners, and ensuring best-in-class product reliability, installation, and customer experience.
Management Team
Justin Holland is a Senior Operations Executive with expertise in Integrated Business planning and Supply Chain management covering multi-site operations, global supply chain integration and P&L management. Mr. Holland brings +20 years of demonstrated excellence in strategic planning, demand planning and class A manufacturing from the high tech/electronics, food, and pharmaceutical industries including Pepsi Canada, General Mills, Apotex, and Christie Digital.
Brent Harris founded Eguana and is an inventor of the Company's core technologies. Mr. Harris first led the commercialization of the Company's products and then its early sales. He is now responsible for Eguana's global operations. Brent graduated from Queens University in Ontario in Applied Science with a focus on power and control systems and began his career as an instrumentation engineer on international midstream oil and gas projects.
Daljit Ghotra leads Eguana’s engineering team and is accountable for Eguana's development program, product designs, and technology strategy. Drawing on nearly 20 years of power system development experience spanning various applications including cellular base stations to PV inverters to energy storage systems Mr. Ghotra applies his strong understanding of power control design topologies, system applications and end user requirements to deliver industry leading distributed energy storage solutions. He holds an MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.
Board of Directors
Mr. Powlick has been an active venture capitalist since 1995 in Silicon Valley and in Europe. He is currently a Partner at Astanor Ventures, a global impact investor across the agrifood value chain. Previously, he co-founded Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and was head of the Strategic Investments and Acquisitions Group for Intel Corporation in Europe and the Middle East.
Michael Carten has more than 25 years national and international experience in the energy industry most recently as Senior Vice President Corporate and Government Finance for Nesbitt Burns. Prior to that he was a senior partner with Bennett Jones one of Canada's leading energy law firms. He has represented some of Canada's largest energy companies has been an advisor to both federal and provincial governments.
Karen Hayward is an author, international speaker and a Managing Partner and CMO with Chief Outsiders, where she is responsible for building and supporting a team of world-class marketers. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Karen matches mid-market CEOs and Private Equity Portfolio managers with the best-fit Chief Marketing Officers to help accelerate top line growth. Her book “Stop Random Acts of Marketing” takes the learnings from her previous experience as a VP in both Sales and Marketing and shows mid-market CEOs how to build a strategic growth plan in the digital age to deliver compelling ROI.