Ken Spencer
Ken Spencer is the retired CEO and co-founder of Creo Products. Founded in 1983 with two people Creo grew from a startup to over 4,000 employees in British Columbia, United States, Europe and Israel. It was BC's largest high technology company with sales of almost $1 Billion. In 2005 it was sold to Kodak.
Ken retired in 1995 but stayed on the board of Creo. He now spends some of his time mentoring other CEO's and serving on boards. He is Chair of the Board of Bycast Inc. and Redlen Technologies and is on the board and Treasurer of the Canadian Education Association. Previously he has been Chair of the Board of Science World, Spectrum Signal Processing Twinstrand Therapeutics and CityXpress and a member of the Board of BCIT and AceTech. He is also chair of UBC's Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Committee and on the advisory board to the Dean of Applied Science at UBC and the and the advisory board to the Dean of Business at SFU.
The rest of his time he spends skiing and travelling, as much of it as possible by bicycle. In 1996 Ken, his partner Judy and their son Wylie spent a year travelling around the world, much of it by bicycle.
