Sanctuary Appoints John Watson to Board of Directors

November 24, 2021 |Press Release

Vancouver, BC – Nov. 24, 2021 – Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Company supplied this day that it had appointed John Watson to the firm’s Board of Directors. As Neighborhood President, Buyer Ride, Watson leads Bell’s Buyer Operations, Self-discipline Providers, and other provider groups for BCE Inc., Canada’s biggest communications firm. Watson joins the fresh Directors of the Board: Geordie Rose, Ajay Agrawal, Martin Reed, Trace Evans, and Dave Cummings.

“As a major in organizational pattern, John brings a particular negate of skills and journey to the Sanctuary Board of Directors,” Geordie Rose, Co-Founder and CEO of Sanctuary acknowledged. “We are very happy that John is becoming a member of, and I am personally desirous about the views and suggestion he’ll lift as we work to attain our mission to produce the field’s first human-esteem intelligence in standard-aim robots.”

Leveraging industry-main investments in capacity pattern, enormous records, analytics, and machine finding out, with bigger than 22 years journey as an government officer at a series of publicly traded companies, Watson is currently delivering an improved Bell residential and wireless customer journey.

“Sanctuary is at a pivotal point in its industry, financial, and technology convey,” Watson acknowledged. “It’s an inviting time to be becoming a member of the Board, and I’m smitten by the firm’s mission and what’s in store for the lengthy speed.”

Watson has lectured on industry technique, customer journey, enormous records, marketing and marketing, leadership, and capacity pattern. He holds an MBA from the Schulich Faculty at York University.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-primarily based firm. Sanctuary is on a mission to produce the field’s first human-esteem intelligence in standard-aim robots that will relieve us work extra safely, effectively, and sustainably. And within the now no longer-too-a ways-off future, relieve us uncover, settle, and prosper in outer negate.

Members of the Sanctuary crew primarily based D-Wave (a pioneer within the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first employ of reinforcement finding out in a production robotic), and the Inventive Destruction Lab (pioneered a innovative formula for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The crew has journey launching market-defining innovations rooted in beforehand unsolved and deep scientific problems.

About BCE Inc.

Bell is Canada’s biggest communications firm, offering superior broadband wireless, TV, Data superhighway, media and industry communication services and products for the length of the country. Founded in Montréal in 1880, Bell is wholly owned by BCE Inc. To be taught extra, please seek suggestion from Bell.ca or BCE.ca.

Thru Bell for Higher, Bell is investing to produce an even bigger this day and an even bigger the following day by supporting the social and economic prosperity of its communities with a dedication to the preferrred environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. This involves the Bell Let’s Talk initiative, which promotes Canadian psychological health with nationwide consciousness and anti-stigma campaigns esteem Bell Let’s Talk Day and stressful Bell funding of community care and accumulate entry to, be taught and workplace leadership initiatives for the length of the country. To be taught extra, please seek suggestion from Bell.ca/LetsTalk.

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About Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Company

Founded in 2018, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-primarily based firm. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to produce the field’s first human-esteem intelligence in standard-aim robots that will relieve us work extra safely, effectively, and sustainably, serving to to address the labor challenges going through many organizations this day. Sanctuary AI’s increasing checklist of prospects and traders represents a large selection of industries across Canada, the US, and other countries across the field.

Members of the Sanctuary crew primarily based D-Wave (a pioneer within the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first employ of reinforcement finding out in a production robotic), and the Inventive Destruction Lab (pioneered a innovative formula for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). With journey at startups and technology leaders equivalent to Amazon, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung, the crew has journey launching market-defining innovations rooted in beforehand unsolved and deep scientific problems.