Angela Robert, CEO and Co-Founder

Angela leads the company, empowering people to fearlessly embrace and Conquer mobile technology. She keeps the business moving smoothly, combining her talent for tuning in to customer needs with close attention to process. Her 12 years of management and software engineering experience ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget, showcasing the latest and greatest technologies. Angela established her credentials as a Software Engineer at Scotiabank, IBM and Electronic Arts. Her talent for digital creation began at Electronic Arts Canada, where she worked on more than 20 games in over five years and as Development Director for Skate™ and Skate 2™. Skate™ achieved significant acknowledgements from the gaming community, including a number of awards, and bringing down direct competitor Tony Hawk™. Angela graduated from University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science and developed a love for learning new languages such as French, C++, Assembler, Cobol, Spanish, Java and C#.

Aaron Hilton, CTO and Co-Founder

Aaron Hilton is the mastermind and visionary behind the design of Conquer Mobile products. Aaron has deep roots in game creation tools, real-time visual effects and 3D engines, which led an interest in mapping applications. His experience, coupled with an uncanny ability to predict technology trends, enables applications to be created with rich feature sets in time for market. In 2007, he founded CellMap Inc. to create cell phone mapping applications for customers. This led to the design and implementation of CellTouch, a unified platform for deliciously simple mobile app creation. Notable iPhone developments include Voice Recognition and Augmented Reality in Canpages, Immersifind and Ziplocal products, and end-to-end technical design of the Official McDonald’s Canada Restaurant Locator. Aaron honed his skills at Electronic Arts, Disney and Sanctuary Woods, developing game technology for XBOX, PS2 and Windows PC platforms. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Victoria and is the organizer for Vancouver’s iPhone Developer Meetup. When not building Conquer Mobile technology, his robots are quietly taking over the world.

Helen Goddard, VP Product Marketing

Helen leads Conquer Mobile’s marketing and product management. She has a 15-year track record setting product business strategy and achieving rapid penetration for new products in new markets. She has a broad range of experience including business strategy, product marketing, product management and communications. Helen is a big-picture thinker who thrives on planning creative solutions to tricky business problems. Helen has held product leadership positions at companies of all sizes-from product management at SAP Business Objects (Crystal Decisions) to director of product marketing at SCO and business development consulting for several software start-ups. She has lived and worked in some of the world’s hottest technology hubs including Cambridge UK, Silicon Valley California and Vancouver. Helen has a Masters in Cognitive Science from Warwick University, UK and a Bachelors in Computer Science from University of Exeter, UK. When not working, Helen can be found riding her bike, creating digital art or playing devil’s advocate.

Jeff Chop, CFO

Jeff heads up the financial side of the business. He brings a wealth of corporate financial experience from his years in the banking business with giants such as RBC and the BDC. Jeff has direct experience of successfully managing the growing pains of start-ups. Jeff co-founded Constructive Media (now Partnerpedia) and in his role as CEO grew the business from 2 to 30 people. Jeff has a Bachelor’s in Finance and Economics from University of Western Ontario and is Canadian Securities Institute certified.

Kathy O’Donoghue – Strategy Consultant

Kathy is an experienced software development leader  who has managed technology products and projects  for companies such as Electronic Arts, Nortel Networks, Pfizer, NEC and  SAP (Business Objects, Crystal Decisions). Products ranged from Dentyne & Trident chewing gum, mobile software features, Crystal Reports,  to video games and lottery systems. Kathy implemented a number of international large scale government lottery systems. Kathy was a Development Director at Electronic Arts building video games such as SSX (Snowboarding), Need For Speed (Racing), and Virtual Me (Avatars).    Kathy has a B. Sc. in Computer Science and her current passions are mobile technology, gaming and enabling technologies for environmental and social responsibility. Angela, Bruce and Kathy worked together at Electronic Arts.  When not working, you can find Kathy on the golf course.