Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 17, 1988
• Invested on: April 12, 1989

An outstanding professional engineer, educator and entrepreneur, he has enhanced Canada's reputation in the realm of high technology as Chairman of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, a leader in imaging technology and the preferred supplier of satellite ground stations around the world. A valued member of many national and provincial scientific organizations, he has worked towards improving the policy environment within which industry and science work together and is a model for the new breed of "high-tech" engineers.