Leadership Team
Vision, dedication, and passion
Darren Gibbons
Co-founder and President
Darren has guided and led OpenRoad since co-founding the company in 1995. A unique blend of strategic thinking, technological know-how, and great people skills, Darren maintains a presence in many of OpenRoad's projects. His hands-on approach has helped organizations like the BC Supreme Court, Electronic Arts, Intrawest, and the Workers Compensation Board achieve success with innovative and powerful web applications.
Darren majored in Applied Physics at Simon Fraser University. He has been a guest speaker on topics ranging from Java to network security and is co-author of a book on JavaBeans 1.1 published by McGraw-Hill.
Gordon Ross
Vice President
An OpenRoad partner, Gordon has played a key role in refining the firm's development methodologies. Since 1996, Gordon has worked throughout OpenRoad's project design and development cycles extensively, doing project management, systems analysis and strategy work for some of BC's largest web projects. His portfolio at OpenRoad includes a wide range of work with clients like BC Hydro, the City of Vancouver, ICBC, the Ministry of Attorney General, Ministry of Transportation, and the Vancouver Public Library.
Gordon earned a BA in Communications at Simon Fraser University. He has taught IT project management and e-business topics for Simon Fraser University and lectured at BCIT and the Vancouver Film School. An advocate of user-centred design methods, Gordon is involved in the organization of the Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE).