Blair Knippel, CPA, CA, CPA (Illinois) serves as Chief Executive Officer for Synergyne Imaging Technologies Inc. and Synergyne ART Analytics Inc. and has been involved with both companies since their inception. Blair assisted with the acquisition of the underlying technologies of Synergyne, the development of the underlying business opportunities relating to the technology and handles the day- to-day strategic leadership of both entities.
Blair is also currently Chief Financial Officer for a foreign-based private investment firm working with select agri-food and agri-business ventures.
Blair remains involved in the Saskatchewan business community. He is currently Chair of the Board for Canadian Isotopes Innovations Corp., a LINAC-based medical isotope corporation seeking to supply Molybdenum and Technetium to the North American health diagnostic industry. Blair is also member of the Huskies Football Foundation and has sat on its Executive Committee since its creation in 2001.
Previously, Blair worked with Deloitte LLP for 27 years and left public practice as a Tax Partner in 2015. He specialized in assisting Canadian and foreign companies to expand their businesses into various countries with a primary focus on technology and commercialization opportunities.
Blair was a co-founder of the Saskatchewan Capital Network, Saskatchewan’s only angel investment network, and is one of its past-presidents. Blair is a former director of MosoConf, Canada’s largest mobile social media conference. Blair was also involved in the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce from 2001 to 2009, serving as President in 2007-2008.
Blair has a B.Comm from the University of Saskatchewan and is both a Canadian Chartered Public Accountant (Saskatchewan – 1991) and a US Certified Public Accountant (Illinois – 2002).