Ingenia Communications Corporation
- Ingenia Communications Corporation
Ingenia Communications Corporation is the name of a Canadian internet technology company that [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns_re?company_select=3162214 was dissolved] in 2001. The company was incubated at Carleton University in Ottawa and produced many notables in the industry including software developer Mike Shaver who went on to become a strategist with the Mozilla Corporation.
Ingenia became known on the world stage for supporting the development of Canada's SchoolNet and received a number of awards. In the early dot-com days Ingenia had a fairly high profile at conferences and worked on marquee projects for the Canadian federal government and other organizations. President Karen Kostaszek received awards including the [http://www.top40award-canada.org/award/old/1995.shtml 1995 Caldwell Partners Top 40 Under 40 Award] .
In the mid 1990s Ingenia's faced leadership and strategic challenges leading to some exits by key personnel. In 1997 Ingenia ran into serious financial difficulties and the company [http://archive.ottawabusinessjournal.com/archive_detail.php?archiveFile=./pubfiles/obj/archive/2000/June/11/6929.xml&start=0&numPer=20&keyword=Ingenia§ionSearch=&begindate=1%2F1%2F1999&enddate=12%2F31%2F2007&authorSearch=&IncludeStories=1&pubsection=&page=&IncludePages=1&Include
] in being acquired by Stittsville-based [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns_re?company_select=2647826 Software Kinetics] for $100 and the assumption of $500,000 of debt. Software Kinetics was then taken over by [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns_re?company_select=4184548 Xwave Solutions] which in turn was acquired by Aliant.
Other notables from the former Ingenia include Keenan Wellar who represented the company at [http://www.isoc.org/isoc/whatis/conferences/inet/97/proceedings/G5/G5_2.HTM INET '97] and Neil Fraser who founded [http://digitalroutes.co.uk Digital Routes] in Scotland.
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