Leadership

Our leadership team has extensive experience in designing, building, and running Managed Services and IT Outsourcing companies.

Robert Offley (President & CEO)

With more than 18 years of management experience in the IT industry, Robert joined CentriLogic as President and CEO in 2006.

Prior to joining the CentriLogic team, Robert was President and CEO of Fusepoint Managed Services, where he expanded the company out of Vancouver to become a national provider of managed services. In the three years Robert was with Fusepoint, he grew the business to achieve sustained 170% year-over-year growth.

Before joining Fusepoint, Robert held managerial responsibility at PSINet, one of the first Internet service providers. Robert first joined the company as European Director before being appointed CEO of PSINet’s Canadian operations. Under Robert’s leadership, PSINet Canada became the leading provider of hosting services in Canada.

Robert holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from Birmingham City University.

Sylvain Boyer (Vice President, Marketing & Product)

Sylvain joined CentriLogic in February 2012 as Vice President, Marketing and Product. With over 15 years in the Technology industry, Sylvain holds a unique combination of technical/engineering, marketing, and sales experience. At CentriLogic, Sylvain is accountable for the development and implementation of ongoing corporate marketing strategies as well as responsible for the company’s portfolio of products and services ranging from hosting to managed services and cloud.

Prior to joining CentriLogic, Sylvain was most recently leading Alcatel-Lucent’s Cloud Services initiatives. During the remainder of his thirteen year tenure at Alcatel-Lucent, Sylvain held numerous positions in Systems Engineering, Strategy and Marketing in areas including multiscreen video communications, mobile data explosion and broadband wireless networking.

Before joining Alcatel-Lucent, Sylvain started his career with Fonorola, where he was responsible for architecting IP Networks and designing the first coast-to-coast fiber optics network in Canada.

Sylvain speaks fluent French and English, and has a B.A Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Mike Bethune (Director of Technology & Security)

Coming from a security and systems architecture background, Mike joined CentriLogic as Director of Technology & Security in 2008. With more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry, Mike holds over 10 Technology Industry certifications, including ITIL, and the well-known and respected RHCE and CISSP.

Before joining CentriLogic, Mike was a Senior UNIX Engineer and lead at Bell Canada, where he built and managed UNIX, Linux and SAN technology infrastructure.

Prior to Bell Canada, Mike was the Senior Systems Architect of Payment Processing Inc., where he was responsible for overall infrastructure, security and application development.

Mike was the Senior UNIX Engineer and National Team Lead for Fusepoint Managed Services for five years before he left to join Payment Processing.

Mike also served in progressive roles at Telus, BCTel, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, and the Ministry of Transportation of Highways.

Mike has a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.

Donnette McKenzie (Director of Finance)

Donnette joined CentriLogic in 2009 with 20 years of experience in accounting and finance. As CentriLogic’s Director of Finance, Donnette is responsible for the overall management of the finance team, as well as for monthly and annual reporting, the company’s financial policies, and forecasting based on internal analysis and her many years of experience.

Before joining CentriLogic, Donnette was an Accounting Manager at RapidMind, where she managed accounts payable and receivable, annual budgets, regularly reported to investors and managers, and conducted financial analysis.

Prior to that, Donnette was responsible for finance, human resources, payroll and acted as a team lead for the Ontario College Application Service. She managed a team of finance personnel and was responding for monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting, managed internal control and procedures and developed financial policies.

Donnette has also held accounting and controller roles at Flight Centre, where she was responsible for eleven Toronto area shops, and QVC in Port Lucie, Florida. She is experienced in both American and Canadian accounting practices and laws.

Donnette holds a BBA in Finance from Florida Atlantic University and an AA Degree in Accounting from Indian River Community College.

Kevin Aplin (Group Sales Director)

With over 20 years of IT sales experience, Kevin joined CentriLogic in 2008 and quickly became the Director of Sales. In 2012, Kevin was appointed to the position of Group Sales Director. Kevin is responsible for the overall management and direction of the sales teams based in Canada, the US, and Europe. In his role, he has been instrumental in increasing the success of the sales team and growing CentriLogic’s annual revenue.

Before he joined CentriLogic, Kevin worked for SQS (a leading Europe wide software quality assurance company) where Kevin lead large sales engagements across Europe – including a 5 year engagement with T-Mobile in both the UK and Germany.

Prior to SQS, Kevin worked for Gresham Computing leading the expansion of their new Java based software integration solution focussing on financial service companies and large corporations. During his time with Gresham, Kevin was selected to lead the creation of a North American sales team based in Boston. Kevin established significant new projects with Chase Manhattan and CitiBank before returning to the UK in 2001.

In 2007 Kevin decided to return to North America, moving his family to Canada where he formed Trafalgar Consulting provided sales services and support to a number of organizations.