is named chief operating officer and EVP of EMS Technologies Inc. Dr. Mackay was most recently EVP of strategy at EMS, overseeing mergers and acquisitions. He has been CEO with a number of telecommunications and aviation companies, including GEAC Computers in Toronto, Innotech Aviation Ltd. in Montreal and the Trinidad and Tobago Telephone Co. He is a recipient of the Canadian Business Aviation Association’s lifetime achievement award for service to the aviation industry. Before entering corporate management in 1979, he was an associate professor at Queen’s University, teaching electronics, communications and signal processing. He earned a B.Eng from McGill and a Ph.D in electronics and communications engineering from Sydney University, Australia.