Talk:Terry Matthews

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Contents 1 Latest Edits - Sept/Oct 2006 2 Sources Needed 3 Previous Comments 4 Citizenship

[edit] Latest Edits - Sept/Oct 2006

Hello Trident13, Vast improvement on the original though I have several Issues with statements in the latest edition, specifically:

"Mitel became a technology consultancy company run from home, to the various companies around Ottawa's emerging tech district - including the National Research Council, the Communications Research Centre, and a tiny handful of pioneering start-ups included SHL Systemhouse and Quasar Systems (now Cognos)" - this is not stated the in the citation provided.

"Obtaining funding by other means from boths banks and BNR, " - Mitel was self (& Angel) funded and I do not beleive BNR had any involvement in the funding of Mitel.

"reacquired the Mitel PBX business and company name" - he also acquired the manufacturing arm that was subsequently spun out as part of breconridge it maybe more prudent ot say purchased all the assets of mitel except for the semiconductor division which subsequently became Zarlink.

I would disagree with the statement "return to mitel" he spent the majority of his time between 2001-2004 in March Networks. If my memory serves (it usually doesn't however) he tried to merge march and mitel but was unable to for some reason.

It would be nice if we could sum up his education. I know he attended University of Wales. DOes anywone know from what dates? which campus? a quick google didn't provide the answer. --Smartbettor 13:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi - thanks for comments: yes, the old article was awful! I have referenced in the sources from various articles, all of which are referenced/linked or at External Links noted at the foot of the article. At times, trying to piece things togther for a Bio is a bit like trying to put a train wreck together within in a PR machine - so there are things they want to forget, some things get merged by various editors, and then you have the PR-spin element of whatever they wanted to achieve from that article. If you think I have got things in the wrong order/completly wrong, then please go ahead and correct, or limit back to where you feel it is right. Certainly the early days (education-why/how Canada-Mitel) could do with a lot more work/sourcing. The failure of the lawn mowers, the re-trench to home consulting and the launch of Mitel on the chip PHD is well sourced; but happy to remove the listed companies consulted for - only one source. The Breconridge piece could also do with some more work, and yes he tried to merge Mitel/March. The fun thing while researching this article, was a blogger source (listed) who attended a meeting with Matthews in Australia, and quoted the then Wiki article - which Matthews said was mostly not quite right. Love to know his thoughts after our renewed efforts! Rgds, - Trident13 13:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources Needed

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[edit] Previous Comments

What is Terry Matthews role in Breconridge?

Terry is an investor and a member of the Board of Directors at Breconridge. Bruce Rogers, Breconridge's CEO, worked for Terry at Newbridge Networks where Bruce managed manufacturing operations.

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How can you have margins of 1000%??? The original author must have meant "almost 100%" margin or else 1000% markup.

[edit] Citizenship

Surely Matthews would be counted as Welsh, not Canadian?

He resides in Canada and most of his investments are there.

Yeah, but residency does not mean origin. Tom Jones lives in the US, but is still counted as Welsh.

First of all the Origin (birthplace) of someone on wikipedia does not pigeonhole their categorization, its usually the place where they became wiki-worthy (ie where they became famous, or the place where they resided during their rise to fame).

Also - He holds Canadian Citizenship, he lives in canada, he's been a resident for over thirty years, he started each of his companies in Canada, the vast majority of people employed by him are in Canada. Plus matthews is listed under the Welsh entrepreneurs category, Canadian businesspeople, Knights Bachelor, Natives of Newport. His welsh connections are firmly linked in his bio. I don't think that there's anything missing except a link to the ottawa business people category (if it exists.) The tom jones reference is a bit silly since he hold no US citizenship and the majority of his fame came from when he was located in the UK.

Hmm...I thought Tom Jones held US citizenship, but it appears I was wrong. My mistake.