Mike Fox’s Bio

Mike is passionate in his efforts to help organizations meet their true potential and has spent the last 20 years connecting technology companies with great people. Mike has a deep understanding of what drives small and mid-sized technology firms and is a voracious student of business. Monthly readings include Fortune Magazine, The Economist, Business Week, Fast Company, Red Herring, Information Week, Harvard Business Review, and Strategy and Business Magazine among others.  Some of the many business books he has read are reviewed in his free monthly newsletter.

For 11 years Mike was a senior recruiter for one of Canada’s largest recruiting firms and was the top performer, out of 150+ recruiting specialists, for each of his last five years with the company.  Previous to that Mike worked with Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services, Hamilton Computers (which later became GE Capital), Vernon Computer Financing, and ran his own training company.  He has been a sales representative, sales and branch manager, a product manager, and a fledgling entrepreneur.  This has provided him a wide base of experience from which to provide his clients a unique perspective on the best candidates possible.

Mike interviews 300-400 professionals each year and brings a wealth of knowledge to provide companies with information on best practices.  He has been a speaker at a number of Conference Board of Canada National Conferences as well as the IHRIM (International Human Resource Management Association) National Conference.   In addition Brightlights co-sponsors a Teleforum series with CATA (Canadian Advanced Technology Association) on issues which help technology firms grow.

Mike is very active in the community and sits on a number of not-for-profit boards.  He has a B.Sc. from the University of Guelph and spent two years in Nigeria as a High School Biology and Chemistry teacher with CUSO (Canadian University Service Overseas) before starting his business career.