What Drives Us
We have a compelling need to understand more about the world around us and those in it. We also believe that most people have great untapped potential, but they need assistance to fully realize it. An excellent way of getting this assistance is through mentoring and coaching. Since we also believe that current methods to do these things are inefficient and ineffective, we have created the MELS and EntreBahn platforms to deliver the knowledge and experience that these folks need. It is also my belief that the world will benefit from what we and they can do. We also really hope you are one of those folks.
Mentoring is a very powerful way to bring out people’s creative potential to enable them to make a difference in their lives and those of others.
To realize this potential, MELS was designed and developed in cooperation from those currently running mentoring programmes and those participating in these programmes. The result is that MELS makes running mentoring programmes more efficient and effective for all parties concerned while taking care of administrivia that is normally involved in mentoring programmes.
History
On coming back, Reg’s background as an entrepreneur asserted itself and he decided to start a new business. But, he needed to start from scratch because all his old contacts had moved on. He needed to find experts in various fields like sales and marketing, finance, and product development and he needed to do it quickly.
But how to find the best resources? The old methods of going around and interviewing dozens of people was expensive and time-consuming. The usual way of judging how good someone or something is by rating them. But, there was no independent agency who provided ratings on a person’s expertise. This was crucial when asking someone to act as an advisor, coach or mentor. Also, even though many people offered free consultations and advice, it was not clear how it applied to Reg’s business ideas. Both Peter H Salus, our other co-founder, and Reg realized that this was a common problem affecting most businesses. EntreBahn is the solution to all these issues.
Our Team
Reg Charney
Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
MELS
MELStm (Mentor Entrepreneur Logging System time management) is an offshoot of the EntreBahn concept. In cooperation with some of our development partners who are involved in entrepreneurial courses and special events, Reg developed MELS to make the dynamic world of entrepreneur mentoring more efficient and effective.
Success does not come from avoiding mistakes, it comes from learning from them. Mentoring can forewarn others about what works and what doesn’t.
Hal Swann
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Hal began his career as an industrial designer. Initially, concerned with aesthetic design, his work progressed to mechanical and optical design, including patenting a laser measuring system. Continuing in automotive service equipment, Hal was recruited to a sales position, in which he took a product line from an installed base of two units, to become the most highly-respected system in Canada, and was named top sales manager in North America.
A brush with death saw Hal move more fully into photography (which he had used extensively in market development), virtual reality and film making technology. Rapid advancement led to consulting, specialized imaging and public speaking engagements for Apple, IBM, Kodak, Ontario Provincial Police, and other organizations.
As VP Digital Media at ZoomAndGo, Hal spearheaded numerous unique initiatives, including an on-line video and photo administration system to interface with a vast database of places to stay, worldwide. The firm’s *Geospatial Engine is highly.
Gary Marriott
Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
As CTO, Gary puts form to the team’s conceptual plans, present and future. He has a degree in B.Sc. Astrophysics.
He regularly surprises us with more features and deeper solutions than is expected.
His former positions include:
- Managing the technical operations of Cyberwalker (division of Tucows) Media’s company sites and overseeing the marketing of its web applications.
- A lead programmer in charge of site dynamics and development for LittleGeeks.org, a philanthropic non-profit organization – then as Science & Technology Advisor for their podcasts.
Gary’s specialties are in programming in: PHP, MySQL, Drupal, XHTML, and ColdFusion. He’s a member of Hacklab Toronto and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.