Brian oversees community and regional network planning and implementation activities; financial, project and personnel management; and liaison efforts with all sectors. He is a director of the 807-Network Community-based Network (CBN) in Thunder Bay. In January 2001 he was asked to sit on the National Broadband Task Force which was tasked with mapping out a strategy to deliver broadband services to every community in Canada by 2004.

His background involves a number of community development, system-management, and wide area team-building initiatives. His applied experience implementing both Contact North and the Wahsa Distance Education
High School highlight his personal commitment to community-driven delivery strategies and outcomes-based approaches to project leadership. Brian has an intensive and concrete knowledge of community needs and issues and has worked extensively with local and regional stakeholders to design and implement appropriate First Nation driven telecommunications partnerships and solutions.