Rowena Samuel
With a career in IT spanning over three decades, Rowena Samuel brings wide expertise to her role as a Team Lead and Data Protection Solutions Architect at CDW. Since first entering the industry, Rowena has held a wide variety of roles across the IT sector, developing a comprehensive understanding of infrastructure, operations and systems management. For the past 20 years, her focus has been on both enterprise storage and, more recently, data protection solutions – areas where she combines technical depth with strategic insight to provide clients with tailored solutions.

Ajay K. Sood
With over 25 years in cybersecurity, Ajay is a seasoned veteran when it comes to introducing disruptive security technology to the Canadian market. He currently serves as the Regional Director at Commvault, where he is empowering clients to defend themselves from threats to traditional and cloud infrastructures with data resilience solutions. A seasoned leader, speaker and author, Ajay has enabled his clients to stay ahead of the curve in architecting and operating their cybersecurity defences.

Ashley Otto
Ashley Otto is a Senior Product Manager at CDW Canada, focusing on modern workspace services development. In this role, Ashley is passionate about creating services that help customers navigate their technology journey, with a strong commitment to doing what's best for the customer. Known for a collaborative approach, Ashley teams up with talented professionals to drive impactful projects and boost operational efficiency.

Sunny Wang
Sunny is the National Copilot Lead for Canada, supporting small and mid-size enterprise customers around AI adoption, digital transformation and data privacy. Her work focuses on Microsoft Copilot as the platform to shape the future of AI for organizations and governments.

Shahab Ahmed
Shahab Ahmed is a Senior Architect in our Digital Workspace Solutions unit based in Calgary. Shahab leads our Copilot practice and has extensive experience in driving technological innovation and enhancing operational efficiencies through automation and bots for enterprises. With 18+ years of consulting experience, Shahab has been at the forefront of implementing transformative solutions that revolutionize workflows and propel organizations to new heights.

Brian Matthews
Brian Matthews serves as the Head of Services Strategy & Development for CDW Canada’s Modern Workspace practice. With 18 years of diverse industry experience spanning services, solution architecture, sales and partner management, Brian brings a unique perspective to solving complex business challenges for clients. His passion for the evolving nature of work and disruptive technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, positions him as a thought leader in the field.

Presanna Vingnanalingam
An accomplished professional with over 13 years of technology leadership experience in both the public and private sector. As Senior Director of Digital Transformation & Architecture, he is responsible for enterprise architecture, strategic technology products/platforms and digital transformation at CAAT Pension Plan. Prior to joining CAAT, Presanna was a technology planning leader with the Ontario government focused on operationalizing various emerging technologies.

Puneet Duggal
Puneet Duggal is a Principal Solutions Architect for Hybrid Multicloud Infrastructure at CDW Canada. His responsibilities include assessing a customer's environment, discussing their business outcome and evaluating vendor solutions to advise customers on how to effectively take advantage of existing and emerging technologies to solve complex business problems. Puneet has 20 years of experience and has worked around the world assisting customers by assessing, designing and implementing enterprise solutions, in the public and private sectors.

Craig Siemens
Craig Siemens is the Senior Manager of CDW Canada's Digital Experience team. In this role, he leads our Networking and Digital Workspace Solutions Architects. He has over 24 years in the industry helping clients with their various business challenges by crafting innovative solutions using best of breed technologies from vendors like Cisco.

Daemon Behr
Daemon Behr has built a distinguished career within the Nutanix SE organization, serving as a Senior SE, Advisory Architect and now as Field CTO of the Americas. Certified as NCX #50, he has published, and contributed to several industry books, including the Nutanix Design Guide, and hosted multiple podcasts on infrastructure design, cybersecurity and AI.

Chris Haight
Chris brings over 25+ years of IT experience to his role as a Principal Solutions Architect & Technical Account Manager in CDW’s Vancouver office. Most recently, building and modernizing large enterprise data centre environments with a focus on hybrid infrastructure solutions & services; virtualization, server platforms - edge, converged & hyperconverged infrastructure and is passionate about helping customers maximize the value from their technology investments.

Stephan Labonte
As a Senior Solutions Architect and Technical Account Manager, Stephan's job involves modernizing large enterprise data centre environments, focusing on hybrid infrastructure solutions & services, like virtualization and various server platforms. With over 35 years in the industry, Stephan offers technical leadership, strategy and planning while enhancing existing systems for seamless data mobility across on-premises, private and public clouds.

Karl St-Pierre
Karl St-Pierre is a SASE Sales Specialist supporting the Canadian public sector market. Karl has over 13 years of experience as an SE, and has spent the last five years focused on cloud based security with SASE, most recently supporting the Canadian market with Zscaler and Cisco.

Ben Boi-Doku
Ben Boi-Doku serves as the Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at CDW Canada, and is a strategic cybersecurity advisor and speaker who equips senior leaders with the insight and frameworks necessary to drive resilient digital transformation. With more than two decades of cross-industry experience, Ben bridges the gap between cyber risk and business value, offering pragmatic solutions rooted in high-impact strategy, operational excellence and measurable security outcomes. His work focuses on helping organizations operationalize security priorities – such as cyber risk management, AI governance & security, and threat & vulnerability management – while aligning cybersecurity with core business objectives.

Ivo Wiens
Ivo Wiens is the Field Chief Technology Officer, Cybersecurity at CDW Canada. In this role, Ivo drives the strategic direction for cybersecurity, developing services to best protect the Canadian market and fostering strong vendor partnerships. With over 20 years of experience across cybersecurity consulting, pre-sales, managed security services and leadership roles in IT management in both the public and private sectors, Ivo has helped organizations align their security objectives with business goals. 

Darren Chin
Darren Chin is the national Practice Leader of the Risk Advisory Services team at CDW Canada. Through his extensive experience providing information security consulting and auditing, he has been able to help create information security practices which excel in providing value to clients. During his tenure at CDW, he has formed world-class information assurance, cybersecurity testing and vulnerability management services teams; providing services for major financial firms, healthcare providers, Fortune 500 companies and IT service providers.

Raniem Alsaadi
Raniem Alsaadi is a Consultant in the Cyber Risk team at CDW Canada. Raniem specializes in governance, risk management and compliance (GRC), and has successfully assisted clients across various industries in implementing robust information security programs. Raniem is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. She is dedicated to helping organizations navigate the complexities of cyber risk and enhance their security posture, particularly at a time when cybersecurity and cybercrime are of paramount global importance.

Everett Chubbs
Everett Chubbs is an information technology leader with a passion for building, coaching and leading high performing teams. He began his career in software development (coding) and has evolved his expertise through 20+ years of broad-based technology experience through supervising, managing and leading IT teams. Everett is dedicated in developing his leadership skills to better align and deliver technology to the business, and to ensure that business success benefits IT workers.

Hari Nohal
Harj is a technology leader with a passion for science and technology. His 20+ years’ experience has spanned teams across 4 continents in industries including sciences-meteorology, banking, finance, insurance, audit, tax, advisory and education. Harj currently leads the IT Strategy & Centre of Excellence team for BDO Canada, focusing on strategy & governance for all facets of technology including data & applications, security & risk, infrastructure & operations, and projects & architecture.

Mawuena Ahadzie
Mawuena is a cybersecurity professional with experience in the financial services sector. Currently part of the cybersecurity team at BDO Canada, Mawuena brings hands-on expertise in security operations, risk management and compliance tailored to the evolving business needs.

Gopi Thiruchelvam
Gopi is a Project Manager within the PMO team at BDO Canada. He has experience in IT asset management and project management in the IT and financial sector. Gopi has led numerous technology projects, mergers & acquisitions, as well as compliance related initiatives across the firm. Most recently, this includes ISO 27001 and SOC2 initiatives.