Company Directors

Dean Thrasher Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Thrasher is a senior executive with more than two decades of start-up business management skills, mergers & acquisitions, product launches, product development, and funding experience in the technology, wholesale, manufacturing, distribution, retail and franchise sectors, as well as extensive international business and public market experience. Dean has run and managed several private companies as well as a TSX-Venture listed public company. His previously tenures include being Chair of both private and public companies, as well as holding a seat on the Board of Directors of these entities.

Keith Morrison Independent Director (Chairman)

Mr. Morrison is the CEO of North American Nickel, a TSX-V listed Canadian mineral exploration company that is focused on the discovery of Nickel-Copper Sulfide deposits in Greenland, the United States and Canada. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Era Resources, a TSX-V listed company with a Copper deposit in Papua New Guinea. He was a co-founder and CEO of Quantec Geoscience from 1986 until 2008, that developed industry leading ground geophysical subsurface imaging technologies and has completed more than 3000 resource projects around the world. Keith has an undergraduate degree in Engineering Geophysics from Queen’s University and has completed the ICD Director’s Education Program at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Business.

Karim Kanji Independent Director

Mr. Kanji is a senior, global executive with a proven track record in positioning companies for growth, profitability and acquisition. His experience has been focused on engineering based technology companies with a broad knowledge in the industrial, energy, transportation and healthcare sectors. Karim’s wide-ranging competencies include macro corporate strategies, operational planning, M&A tactics, paths for growth, product development, cost reduction, cash management, and commercial / legal compliance.

Mr. Kanji’s tenures include; President and CEO Lumen Dynamics (managed a successful sale of the company in November 2013), President Clinicare/Chartcare IT Services (negotiated the company’s divestiture in year-two of his contract), Executive Officer at SEALS Ltd. a subsidiary of ICTS Europe Group (completed acquisition and post closing activities – 2011), Vice President and Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Siemens Canada, General Manager and Finance Director Siemens Canada and has served on several boards of both public and private entities.

Karim also holds several degrees including his eMBA, MBA, CPA, CMA, and his masters in law from Osgoode Hall.

Bryan Ganz Independent Director

Mr. Ganz brings more than 30 years of global business experience in sales management, manufacturing, new product design and development as well as mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Ganz will assist SDI with sales & marketing, expansion of the company’s product range, review of operations, implementation of cost control measures, development of strategic alliances and financial oversight. During his career Mr. Ganz has bought, built and sold more than half a dozen global businesses with combined sales in excess of $1.0 billion. Most recently, Mr. Ganz sold Maine Industrial Tire LLC to Trelleborg (based out of Sweden) for $67 million, generating a 7.0x return to investors over a three-year period.

Mr. Ganz is a graduate of Columbia Law School in New York City and completed his accounting designation at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Karen Bowling Independent Director

Ms. Bowling brings more than 25 years of diverse executive management experience to the board of SDI. Some of her skill-sets include; government affairs, lobbying, public relations, government procurement, marketing, communications, operations, and local and state-level legislation. Ms. Bowling has also spent part of her career in the less-lethal sector for a long-range acoustic hailing device company.

Karen’s recent positions include; Public Affairs Director at Foley & Lardner LLP, CEO at WiseEye AI, (an artificial intelligence company focused on the healthcare sector for CT scan identification and classification), Chief Administration Officer for the city of Jacksonville, FL (with a budget in excess of one billion dollars and over 5,000 employees), and Co-Founder and CEO of the Solantic Walk-In Urgent Care Centers. Ms. Bowling has sat on and chaired numerous boards across a dozen sectors, and has recently been Gubernatorial appointed to the board of the Florida State College in Jacksonville.