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CANADIAN INDUSTRY ONLINE - NOVEMBER 2015Northern MicroNORTHERN MICRO CELEBRATES 30 YEARS IN BUSINESSFOR THIS MONTH’S tech series, CIO had the privilege of inter- viewing three innovators from Ottawa’sNorthern Micro: Herman Yeh, President and Founder, Gilles Comtois, Senior Director of Product Management, and Richard Perkins, Senior Director of Pro- duction and Corporate Quality.Northern Micro, started in 1985, delivers integrated IT solutions to busi- nesses using expertise in computing, infrastructure, and datacentre technolo- gies. The company is a full-service part- ner to its clients, armed with a compre-hensive portfolio of top tier enterprise technology solutions, end-user com- puting devices, and providing profes- sional consulting services.Why did the company start? What gaps were in the marketplace that need- ed to be addressed?Herman Yeh: I’ve always had a passion for technology, and how it could be to get work done more efficiently. Be- fore PCs, everything was calculated by either large computers, slide rules, and written with typewriters and I always believed that technology would change the way we work.After working for five years in50| Canadian Industry Online | November, 2015
