About NIRIX

NIRIX, founded in 2001, is a closely held, privately-owned, Edmonton-based advanced Cloud Services Provider (CSP). NIRIX has operations primarily in Western Canada.

NIRIX specializes in delivering state-of-the-art, advanced Cloud-based services and network solutions to highly-regulated industries and publicly-traded organizations. We specialize in delivering advanced Cloud Computing services such as Microsoft Exchange messaging and collaboration services (oneExchange), virtual desktop and computing services (oneDesktop), Windows Server services (oneServer), and data and workload protection services (oneBackup).

The Name – “NIRIX”

Over the years, many have asked what exactly does the word “NIRIX” mean. How was the name chosen? And why? For the past ten+ years, the team at NIRIX have never been able to answer this question directly. However, from the very beginning, the founder of NIRIX had wanted a name that was totally unique and maybe a little undefined. A decade has since passed and we are quite confident NIRIX remains undefined in a good way! We have done many Google, Yahoo, and Bing searches. Surprisingly enough, the search results only list our company. Therefore, at NIRIX, the word means “different”, to think out-of-the-box for solutions to complex business problems.

The Corporate Logo – The Cloud

The corporate logo is a symbol of a cloud representing NIRIX’s core competency in the Cloud Computing space. The three sections of the cloud logo represents the three most common models of Cloud Computing: Private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud.

The Tagline – “Computing Differently”

Given that we have now defined what “NIRIX” means, our next step was to define what it is that NIRIX does that makes us uniquely different. All organizations are different from one another. At NIRIX, we compute differently, approach business problems differently, and look to deliver different solutions that ultimately add real value. At the heart and soul of our business, we deliver solutions where businesses are “computing differently” to maximize efficiency and reduce costs by leveraging the cloud to re-invent tomorrow.

Management Team

Henry Yip
Executive Chair

In addition to chairing the advisory board for
NIRIX, Henry also chairs on the advisory board for the Prototype Development Centres initiative, involving TRLabs, NAIT, SAIT and Red Deer College. An active member in the community, Henry is the vice chair of the University of Western Ontario Engineering Advisory Council. He is also involved in the Youth-In-Motion organization as a judge for the Top 20 Under 20 award and as a mentor for the winners of the award. He is also the chair of the Canadian Youth Business Foundation’s Edmonton-based Loan Review Committee. Henry brings to NIRIX his strengths and broad experience in corporate business, operations and implementation.

Steven Hsu
President and CEO

Steven Hsu is the founder of NIRIX. In 2001, Steven started NIRIX in the true HP sense – as a “one man shop”, out of the basement of his home. Since 2001, with his personal business philosophy acting as his driving force, Steven has worked diligently over the decade in turning his vision into reality by recruiting talented people, developing new innovative product offerings, and delivering top-notch customer service.

Steven is responsible and overlooks the overall execution of the company strategy and growth. Since 2001, Steven has quickly and successfully transformed NIRIX twice over the decade. In 2004, NIRIX made the strategic decision to tranform its business revenue model from non-predictable revenue stream to subscription based model. By 2009, with the business transformation complete, Steven lead the charge and developed a forward looking five year strategic and operational action plan to further transform our product offering and corporate identity to aggressively engage and capitalize the “Cloud Computing” revolution is now upon us. Today, NIRIX has five advanced cloud services designed to meet the requirements of the highly-regulated industries.

Stanford Hsu
VP Technology Operations

Stanford Hsu joined NIRIX in 2004. Prior to joining NIRIX, Stanford was responsible for the service development of various managed services implemented at the national level for TELUS Corporation in Calgary. Since joining the NIRIX team, Stanford’s focus has been on technical implementation and development of technology operational excellence.

Under Stanford’s guidance and direction, NIRIX has grown from operating servers in a “closet” to delivering advanced cloud services with guaranteed uptime and availability in a a world-class datacenter. With the projected growth ahead for NIRIX, Stanford’s focus will be on designing and implementing new cloud technologies such as virtualization, storage, load balancing, and advanced network security.

Board of Advisors

Henry Yip
Chairman

Henry is a senior business executive, with an extensive background in the telecom industry (former Vice President of TELUS and Executive Vice President of Allstream (formerly AT&T)). He is involved in advisory roles for early stage companies and is active in evaluating and investing in early stage business ventures. He was the CEO of DriveABLE Assessment Centres Inc., and has served on and chaired many boards. In addition to chairing the advisory board for NIRIX, Henry also chairs on the advisory board for the Prototype Development Centres initiative, involving TRLabs, NAIT, SAIT and Red Deer College. An active member in the community, Henry is the vice chair of the University of Western Ontario Engineering Advisory Council. He is also involved in the Youth-In-Motion organization as a judge for the Top 20 Under 20 award and as a mentor for the winners of the award. He is also the chair of the Canadian Youth Business Foundation’s Edmonton-based Loan Review Committee.

Henry brings to NIRIX his strengths and broad experience in corporate business, operations and implementation.

John Pinsent
Advisory Member

John currently serves as Director of the Alberta Venture Channel and is a founding partner of St. Arnaud, Pinsent and Associates Chartered Accountants (SA&P). John previously worked with Ernst and Young LLP as an Assurance Senior Manager and their Director of Technology, Communication and Entertainment (TCE) assurance services for Northern Alberta. He also served as the Steering Committee Chairman and was the co-author of Ernst and Young’s annual Alberta Technology Report. He remains active in a number of information, communication and technology (ICT) initiatives within the Province, serving as an advisor, board member and/or director on a number of boards of technology and biotechnology companies. John has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA) Distinguished Service Award for his support of the Province’s high technology community, the ICAA Early Achievement Award and the Economic Development Edmonton Ambassador Award for his formation work on the Greater Edmonton Competitiveness Strategy.

John brings to NIRIX’s Board his strength in financial planning and fundraising, which will influence NIRIX’s future growth, as well as the direction the company will take in the coming years.