Our Team
Bruce MacArthur
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Bruce has over 50+ years experience working in the forest sector. Starting as an inventory specialist and valuation forester, Bruce subsequently focused on sustainable forest management as Manager of Forest Economics then Assistant General Manager at the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia followed by General Manager of the McGregor Model Forest Association. His experience collecting, analyzing and forecasting timber resources at the Association led to his founding of Tesera Systems in 1997. As company founder, Bruce is instrumental in guiding the development of Tesera’s innovative High Resolution Inventory Solutions (HRIS) and building a growing global client base.
bruce.macarthur@tesera.com
403.851.9904
Dwight Scott Wolfe
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
As a registered B.C. professional forester (R.P.F.), Dwight has detailed knowledge of practices, policy and legislation regarding forestry and other associated resource values. Dwight has over 30 years experience working in areas of stakeholder facilitation, public consultation, scenario planning facilitation, development of indicator monitoring programs and resource management planning/analysis. Dwight has been instrumental in developing a practical approach to delivering sustainable forest management (SFM) “on the ground” involving scenario planning, strategic/operational analysis, indicator development, monitoring and evaluation within a cyclical adaptive management framework.
dwight.wolfe@tesera.com
250.614.3122
Michael Kieser
CHIEF DATA ENGINEER
Michael brings over 25 years of geomatics engineering experience in maintaining, storing, manipulating and visualizing multi-dimensional spatial and aspatial data. His passion is to turn otherwise disparate datasets into valuable information, for input directly into visualizations or further advanced analytical processes. He specializes in integrating open source and licensed data extraction tools, transformation, query and computational applications and web services. He has also contributed several innovative tools including the open source Kernel Topographic Position Indices, and the scaling of a computationally intensive process to build pit-free Canopy Height Models from point clouds.
michael.kieser@tesera.com
403.973.3277
Dr. Max Turgeon
DATA SCIENTIST
Max brings over 6 years of experience in data science, in both the healthcare system and academia.
A passionate teacher and lifelong learner, he is a highly trained statistician with experience with machine learning, high-dimensional data, survival analysis, and anomaly detection. He developed his skills by working on projects in many different fields, including genomics, chemo-informatics, natural language processing and image analysis.
As a Data Scientist, his goal is to leverage his computational and problem-solving skills to provide accurate and actionable insights, based on strong and robust statistical principles.
max.turgeon@tesera.com
306.880.5085
Mike Scarth
DIRECTOR, BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Mike has been actively involved in the research, development and commercialization of advanced and promising technologies for over 35 years.
He brings a broad range of expertise and networks to assist clients with strategic planning, project management, marketing and communications, financial analysis, competitive and market intelligence.
Mike has a proven track record in helping clients save time and money, generate new business and make informed decisions. At Tesera, Mike is responsible for coordinating and supporting strategic planning, business development, and securing new opportunities and relationships.
mike.scarth@tesera.com
403.608.3382
Vipul Malhotra
ADVISOR - DATA MANAGEMENT
Vipul helps turns raw data into valuable insights that clients need in order to grow and succeed. He interprets and analyses data from multiple sources.
He designs data modeling processes to create algorithms and predictive models and perform custom analysis. His focus is on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Scikit-learn in python, Pandas, Natural Language Processing, Data Modeling and Visualization, Statistics, MLOps tools, Predictive Modeling and Time-Series Analysis.
He also enables data formation and the cleaning of raw data, analysis and visualization of large and complex datasets.
vipul.malhotra@tesera.com
416.859.3932
Dr. Cassidy Rankine
ADVISOR - REMOTE SENSING
Cassidy is an Earth Observation (EO) scientist, entrepreneur, and remote sensing solutions expert with a passion for bringing imagery and geospatial products to market to help solve real-world challenges. He thrives on big picture sustainable development problems, and solving these challenges through the use of advanced information technologies. He focuses on distilling complex remote sensing solutions into practical tools that serve business and market needs for sustainable development initiatives. He finds innovative ways to use EO data and GIS analytics .
cassidy.rankine@gmail.com
780.238.1870
Tonja Dwyer
ADVISOR - GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS
Tonja is a nuts and bolts developer, solution architect always striving to improve how data is managed, processed and delivered to clients in a meaningful way. Tonja has built GIS solutions in the forestry, land development and municipal government sectors. She has key insights into critical themes that are present in any data project. She has expertise in GIS software packages, and extract, transform and loading data, coupled with extensive coding experience. Tonja works on data management and translation projects, and supports our HRIS data processing team.
tonjadwyer@gmail.com
403.805.1526
Noah McDonald
ASSOCIATE - CONTROLLER
Noah is a professional Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience in operational accounting across a variety of sectors. Noah is responsible for Tesera’s financial statements, general ledger, cost accounting, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, tax compliance, and various financial, accounting analyses. Noah also streamlines corporate accounting and bookkeeping functions and operations, ensures accounting distributions are properly made and implements proper internal controls for the organization.
noah.mcdonald@tesera.com
403.826.5764