Partners

Jeff Churchill

Jeff is VP of Sales and Marketing for Wirefire. A seasoned sales expert with 28 years’ driving transformative business value through the adoption of advanced technology in enterprise organizations. He is a key member of our leadership team with a focus on delivering revenue strategies to propel Wirefire into an elite global technology solutions firm. With his broad industry experience and deep insights, he is expanding Wirefire into new markets while developing strong partner relationships. Jeff fits the Wirefire culture with an unassuming style that creates customer confidence and builds trust with business leaders. When not helping his customers, he is engaged with his community through active volunteering, and coaching kids championship baseball and hockey teams.

Gabriela Passano

As COO, Gabriela advises the leadership team on day-to-day operations and building the business. She leads finance efforts and works closely to deliver best practices in talent acquisition, business planning, and engagement management. Gabriela came to Canada from Mexico City to complete an MBA from UBC before joining Wirefire. The nine years prior to her MBA she was a manager of talent for a large multi-national engineering and construction company. Gabriela has a deep passion for creating a positive impact on people’s lives and converting talent management into a strategic advantage. She is an enthusiast of photography and languages – speaking Spanish, Portuguese, and English fluently. Gabriela enjoys volunteering for community and environmental causes and has participated in Habitat for Humanity and reforestation projects, among others.

Karsten Hiemstra

Karsten is CEO of Wirefire ServiceNow Solutions. His technology experience is deep, rich and spans over 20 years driving strategic business transformational change with advanced technology and with ServiceNow since the early days – 2008. Karsten brings strong leadership coupled with unique business insights when implementing ServiceNow that is rarely found. He is zealous about how the ServiceNow technology and Wirefire can deliver real customer benefit. Karsten is driven to continuously advance and support the Wirefire delivery and development teams to achieve creative solutions to challenging business problems. On his free time, Karsten enjoys outdoors, especially being on the water.

Craig Chomat

Craig is CEO of Wirefire Secure Network Solutions. A techie at heart Craig has over 28 years delivering truly innovative network and security solutions for multi-national companies operating from Argentina to Alaska and from Korea to Quebec. An expert and thought leader in advanced strategic planning and in designing complex industrial secure network architectures utilizing state of the art technologies. Craig ensures Wirefire brings a business perspective to all client engagements ensuring that our innovative solutions deliver long-term value. He is compassionate about helping others, volunteering in Africa and driving the Wirefire involvement in Cisco’s Connected North program for indigenous Canadian communities.

David Wood

David is President of Wirefire. An engineer and entrepreneur with thirty years in Information Technology, from strategy to design-build to operational excellence. David is now striving to expand Wirefire into a global brand known for creative solutions to complex problems. He co-founded Wirefire on the belief that a company should contribute to creating a better world, socially and environmentally, by empowering team members to make a difference. Balancing his passion for technology David founded a social venture in Nepal with the singular goal of “keeping girls at risk in school” – Kina.org