Julia Elvidge, president of Ottawa-based Chipworks Inc., is named “Trailblazer of the Year” at the CWC 2008 Annual Awards Gala at the Ottawa Congress Centre. “A trailblazer in every sense of the word, Julia Elvidge has truly paved the way for other women to advance and demonstrate their capabilities as leaders,” notes Canadian Women in Communications (CWC). As president of Chipworks Inc., which provides reverse engineering of semiconductors and microelectronic devices, Ms. Elvidge has been instrumental in growing Chipworks from a one-person consulting firm to a global company with more than 120 employees. A member of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) board of directors, she has championed gender and cultural diversity throughout the information and communications technology industry.