Joshua Geist

President and Chief Executive Officer

Geist is an experienced, hands-on entrepreneurial leader who is recognized as the key innovator in the Cloud-based Recovery as a Service (RaaS) industry. With a solid track record of founding innovative and market disruptive companies, Geist currently focuses his efforts on establishing leading business models, technologies and processes in the Cloud-based RaaS landscape through Geminare, the global market leader in RaaS deployments and enablement. Through Geist’s leadership, Geminare’s is recognized several times over via industry awards and leading market analysts and has patented its disruptive Cloud CORE Platform - a proven, mature, multi-tiered service delivery vehicle that is the foundation of Geminare’s entire RaaS enablement engine. 

Geist was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of MindBytes, a professional services organization focused on delivering technology best practices to organizations, where he acted as the outsourced Chief Technology Officer for over 200 small and mid-sized organizations over the course of 12 years, and personally guided consistent year over year company growth as a quoted technology expert and advisor for multiple start-ups.  Prior to founding MindBytes, Geist had the privilege of working for Apple Computer for over 4 years as their Technical Training Manager where he developed and delivered network, system, sales and operational training programs across Canada. 

Geist holds a degree in Applied Physics and Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and enjoys every free moment with his wife and three daughters.

Robert Sandie

Vice President of Corporate Development

An executive with a strong track record in building and leading worldwide Sales, OEMs, Channels, Partnerships, Services and Business Development operations for leading high tech Organizations, Robert heads Geminare’s Palo Alto corporate office. He brings to Geminare over nineteen years of software industry experience, most recently with InMage Systems where, as EVP OEM, Channel, APAC Sales, he established numerous successful strategic partnerships.

With a wealth of experience and market insight into building world-class strategic partner alliances and channel sales relationships, and a proven track record in seeking out and developing new business relationships at the executive level, Robert continues to build on Geminare’s already extensive customer and partner presence.

Prior to InMage, Mr. Sandie served as EVP for Worldwide Operations at Solidcore Systems, where he was instrumental in positioning Solidcore as an industry leader in their field. Mr. Sandie has also held the position of VP of Global Alliances at IONA Technologies where he developed business partnerships with industry giants such as IBM, HP and Intel. Prior to IONA, Robert built and managed the business development and alliances team at WebMethods, creating OEM relationships with SAP, i2, Oracle, Ariba and Siebel, and managed system integration partnerships with EDS, Accenture, IBM, PWC, KPMG and others.

Mike Larkin

Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Mike Larkin is an experienced executive whose career spans over 30 years, primarily in the telecommunications and emerging technology fields. Mike's senior leadership roles have included tenure with Bell Canada as VP Sales and Marketing as well as various start-up ventures including iNet America, BCE Emergis and WorldLinx - an early-stage Internet company that grew from zero to $50m in revenue under Mike's direction.

Mike is the co-author of two best-selling business books, entitled ICE and CARE. He is married with twin children, and resides in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto.

Barrie Laver

Acting Financial Officer

Barrie Laver is a senior business executive with a proven track record of building value and developing management teams. He has experience across a variety of industries and with both public and private companies with over 20 years in private equity, venture capital and asset management industries. Most recently was a 13-year period in a senior capacity with RBC Capital Partners and various predecessor funds, including Royal Bank Capital Corporation. Barrie was also Founder and Managing Partner of CastleHill Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on start-up and early stage IT investments.

Barrie served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vintage Hotels in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario from November 2004 until December 2007, serving as a board member for Vintage Hotels from November 2003 to December 2007. Other past positions include President and Chief Executive Officer of ASI Corporation and five years with Price Waterhouse in Canada and Switzerland. He is a C.A. as well as a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, and has been a director of a number of private and public companies. He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of Havergal College and serves of the Board of the Niagara Wine Festival.