1. Tarrnie Williams is the founder of Canada's first publicly traded software company, Sydney Development Corporation formed in 1978.
15 Facts About Tarrnie Williams
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In 1965, Williams joined the Canadian Corporation for the World Exposition as a Project Manager responsible for multiple projects in the field of communications and computers.
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Tarrnie Williams then moved to Vancouver and joined IBM where he worked for 10 years initially in systems design, then sales, then management education and finally in various management roles.
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Tarrnie Williams resigned from IBM in 1978 to found Canada's first public software company, Sydney Development Corporation, The company developed an online real-time project management system for mainframe computers, then business applications for minicomputers.
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Tarrnie Williams left SDC, at the beginning of the biotech industry, to co-found Proteus Bio-Research Corporation.
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Tarrnie Williams developed a monoclonal antibody to identify the AIDS virus.
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Tarrnie Williams was instrumental in growing Distinctive with Don Mattrick and Paul Lee, before it was bought by Electronic Arts for $11 million in 1991, and then helping Electronic Arts develop into a 125-person organization with a management team that reported revenue of $31 million in fiscal year 1993.
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Tarrnie Williams was the president and CEO of EA Ltd.
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Tarrnie Williams was a founding director of YM BioSciences, which was sold to Gilead Sciences in 2013 for $540 million.
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Tarrnie Williams returned to Cuba for one month every year for over ten years and was able to continue his career.
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Tarrnie Williams co-founded InMedia Corporation, developing digital photography software for digital cameras.
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Tarrnie Williams was renamed Shoal Games and was listed on the Toronto Venture Stock Exchange.
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Mr Tarrnie Williams continues with the company as the Executive Chairman.
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Mr Tarrnie Williams is a recipient of the British Columbia DigiBC Lifetime Achievement award for his contributions in pioneering the video game industry in Canada.
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Mr Tarrnie Williams was featured in Knights of the New Technology: The Inside Story of Canada's Computer Elite, authored by David Thomas and published by Key Porter Books 1983.