Lloyd Davidson

Lloyd Davidson is a technology business assessment advisor and consultant with 43 years deep, broad and varied experience. He provided lenders and investors with insights into the technology, management and markets, and provided strategic advice that recognizes marketplace realities. Mr. Davidson critiqued product design for the ingredients that make them appealing, easy for people to interact with and understand.

Lloyd is a savvy market watcher, providing insights into what sells and which competitors are doing what to the others and why. He has helped clients design products that make technology appealing and easy for people to interact with and understand, and has provided investors and lenders with valuable insights so that they could make sounder investments.

Lloyd began his career in computers with the world's first commercial computer at the University of Pittsburgh in 1956, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering. He spent seven years in the steel industry, then fifteen years at one of the world's pioneers in high tech, Xerox, followed by a short stint at Gulf Canada doing real-time control systems. Lloyd's four-year experience with his first entrepreneurial venture, a high-tech consulting firm gave him invaluable insight into the mindset and issues in an entrepreneurial startup. The 90s were devoted to CIBC (large Canadian Bank) in the fields of process design, user interface design and most recently - high tech business assessment.

For seven years up to 2002, Lloyd had been relied upon by CIBC's Commercial Banking Division to provide in-depth analysis and opinion regarding the technical platform, management ability and business model viability of Canada's emerging high-technology companies. He played a pivotal role in the assessment and decision-making process to partner with potential clients and provided ongoing advice and service to these clients.

Lloyd's principle focus was critiquing and assessing business models and plans, advising on strategy and the marketplace. His understanding of most technologies and marketplaces is very current. He has assessed hundreds of business plans (400+), technologies and management teams in a financial institution setting.

Today, Lloyd is "retired" and looks after over 120 Windows computers of friends, colleagues, family and neighbours.