Ira Thomas Traves

Managing Director

Ira Thomas Traves, LLB is a managing director of Knight’s Bridge Mr. Traves has had over twenty-five years of senior management experience in the technology sector both in Canada and in the United States. He was the founding resident officer and division President of Packard Bell NEC Computers, for over 14 years, leading the Canadian business from its start in 1985, which at its peak was generating annual sales in Canada of over $200 Million.

Mr. Traves then co-founded and led a Los Angeles, California based business specializing in encrypted smart card technology applications over the Internet. After the successful sale of that business in 2003, he subsequently invested in, founded and built the new Canadian division of a global manufacturer and distributor of proprietary imaging products. He has a proven combination of strategic sales, marketing and operational experience and he has successfully leveraged his management and leadership skills in both large enterprise businesses as well as start ups in Canada and the United States.

Mr. Traves is also an Ontario lawyer, and is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and worked for a number of years in the early part of his professional career as a business development and advisory manager for the national accounting firm, Ernst & Young (then Clarkson Gordon, in its Entrepreneurial Services Group).