Chair Profile: Ken Rowley

Professional

Ken Rowley helps leaders of large enterprises chart their courses to higher individual and operational performance. A career innovator with a proactive, analytical approach, Ken draws from over thirty years of experience developing and leading new teams, building complex customer/partner relationships, closing strategic multi-million-dollar sales, and securing record revenue growth in competitor-dominated markets. Recognized as a trusted mentor and sales and marketing leader in the technology industry, he has proudly helped numerous direct reports rise to C-suite roles through one-on-one coaching and supporting the journey to realizing their full potential.

Ken is known for his ability to launch new technologies into international markets, and for evolving the culture and operational resilience of businesses under constant change. In addition to his executive roles in both public and private companies and founding his own successful ventures, Ken has mentored entrepreneurs in a multitude of early-stage and scale-up companies to realize 400% year-over-year performance—and even achieve IPO status.

Through his successful consulting practice, Ken has dedicated his most recent years to helping leaders define their goals and achieve their maximum personal and organizational trajectory. Now, as a TEC Canada Chair, Ken has a new capacity to help business leaders in the Greater Toronto Area solve their most pressing challenges and leverage opportunities in a confidential safe space. Members of his TEC CEO group will immediately experience his unwavering commitment to their development—collectively growing into better versions of themselves along the way.

TEC Group Vision

We are a tight-knit community of entrepreneurs, each seeking to scale our growth, be challenged by peers, and become better leaders and authentic changemakers as a result. We share a commitment to a growth mindset and stepping out of our comfort zones in this safe, peer-led community that welcomes shared experiences for personal and professional growth.

Personal

• Resides north of Toronto with his wife Debra, their two sons, and Golden Retriever, Willow.
• Advisory Board member, BBBT – Boulder BI Brain Trust. (Global Business Intelligence think tank – 180 members worldwide).
• Director, CIO Association of Canada.
• Avid hiker and lover of all things in nature, continuous learner, furniture restoration, digital photography.
• Volunteer – Habitat for Humanity.