Stephen Baird

Stephen Baird, Coreio’s Chief Technology Officer, has an extensive 30+ year background in large complex companies heavily dependent on IT systems, particularly with two of the largest Canadian financial services companies, where he held numerous roles in the Infrastructure and Operations field.

Stephen’s success is founded on delivering reliable solutions with a focus on agility, consolidation and simplification. He is known for his ability to work with business units at all levels in the development of solutions to complex business problems. He enjoys developing and leading high performance teams which rapidly translate a vision into action. Among many accomplishments over his career, Stephen led the Systems Engineering teams at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), which was recognized by Gartner as providing top decile performance in both cost and quality measures when compared to peer North American financial organizations.

His background includes risk and information security, systems management, operations and operational improvements, project management, process assessment and road mapping, organizational change management, IT service management, and complex solution engineering and deployment.

An active member of the Porsche Club of America, in his off time Steve enjoys an occasional turn on the racetrack in his Porsche. He is also an avid cyclist and golfer. Steve and his wife reside in Burlington and have two children.