About Us

People

The success of Level Platforms is based on the extraordinary efforts of a team of extraordinary people working together to help define the future of managed services.

Although there are many people that contribute to the success of the organization, accountability to deliver results to all our stakeholders ultimately rests with the executive team. We encourage anyone to contact them directly with any comments, concerns, suggestions or proposals that could help us provide a better experience for our partners.

Peter Sandiford – CEO
Peter's goal is to establish Level Platforms as the long term leader in the global managed services revolution made possible by next generation remote monitoring and management technologies. Peter has led teams that delivered market-changing product and market innovation throughout his 30 year plus career. As President and Vice Chairman of SHL Systemhouse Inc. for nine years, he led their growth from $35 million to over $1 billion in revenues as a global outsourcing pioneer to global enterprises, ranking number 43 on the VAR Business 500 before its acquisition by MCI and eventually EDS in the late 1990s. Peter founded Level Platforms in 1999 convinced that small businesses needed a "level platform" to deliver IT with the same quality and cost as that achieved by larger enterprises and has led its growth to achieve this ultimate objective.

Barry McKibbon – VP Finance and Administration
Barry manages all finance and administration functions in Level Platforms ensuring effective internal operations, reporting and controls. As a senior finance executive, Barry has been heavily involved in merger, acquisition and investment financing activities at Nuvo Networks, TrueArc Corporation, Critical Telecom Inc., and Nakina Systems Inc. Barry was corporate controller at JetForm Corporation and held finance management positions with SHL Systemhouse in Ottawa, Toronto and London, England. Barry is a Certified Management Accountant.

Dan Wensley – VP Partner Development
Dan drives the continued growth and success of the Level Platforms' global Partner community with responsibility for sales and marketing including solution providers, managed services providers and the expanding network of corporations adopting Level Platforms as the SaaS platform of choice for managed services. Dan served as VP Channel Development with Net Integration Technologies where he spearheaded the rapid growth and adoption of NITIX prior to its sale to IBM. He previously launched MCI WorldCom Canada's highly successful first channel and vendor partnership program.

Paul Renaud – CTO
Paul works with the CEO to ensure that Level Platforms maintains its role as the leader in remote monitoring and management technologies. Paul was formerly Vice President Development at Cognos and played technology leadership roles at Platform Computing, Nortel, and SHL Systemhouse. As a founder of The Lanigan Group, he has provided product strategy services to IBM, RIM, Sprint, Mitel, Bell Canada and many others. 

Robert Berndt – Executive Director Partner Services
Robert's team delivers the award winning customer training, support and professional services that help our partners maximize their success with Managed Workplace. Prior to joining Level Platforms, Robert was Director of Global Customer Support Services at Corel Corporation with responsibility for strategy and execution of services delivery for all Corel products delivered from operations around the world. He has also provided services management consulting to government and private industry in the areas of best practices, organizational design and software productivity tools.