Bio: Sue Abu-Hakima
Suhayya (Sue) Abu-Hakima, Co-Founder/CEO Amika Mobile
Sue is co-Founder, President/CEO of her second start-up Amika Mobile Corporation launched March 7, 2007. As one of a handful of women technology CEOs who has built her reputation on excellence and innovation, Sue is the driving force behind the company. As a two-time founder/CEO, she has formed boards of directors and advisors and directs the business strategy, ensuring that product development matches customer pain points, as well as customer relationships which are key to an SMB. Her leadership is pivotal in securing private financing and forming effective management, business and technical teams. Her first company, launched as a spin-off from NRC in 1998, is AmikaNow! The compliance business unit within AmikaNow! was purchased by Entrust in June 2004. As VP of Content Technology at Entrust between June 2004 and Dec 2006, Sue transitioned the compliance business within Entrust. Sue started her career at Nortel Labs (formerly knows as BNR). Over her tenure as a CEO she has created over 130 jobs - 80 of them in software engineering using AI. Sue holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University and Masters and Doctorate degrees from Carleton University specializing in Artificial Intelligence. Sue is an adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa and has mentored countless undergraduate and graduate students in AI. She holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Ottawa. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Centers of Excellence and is the Chair of the Board of Management for the Center of Excellence for Communications and Information Technology. She is also on the Executive Board of the Ottawa Software Cluster created by OCRI. In 2003 she was one of the contributors to the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Women Entrepreneurs. She has given countless invited talks on entrepreneurship, lessons on start-ups as well as on AI as it pertains to messaging and security. During her 26 years in the high-tech sector, Sue has established an exemplary record of professional accomplishment and service to her community; as an Industry leader, employer and a technology pioneer in the field of practical applications of AI. Sue holds 19 International patents in messaging and content analysis (and has a 20th pending). As many as 27 Global Companies have cited her pioneering patents. She has published and presented over 100 papers. Sue recently won CATA’s 2007 Advanced Technology Enterpreneur of the Year. Sue is an avid Ottawa Senators hockey fan. View some of the Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima publications at http://www.amikamobile.com/corporate/publications.asp