David Yach

David Yach was most recently Chief Technology Officer of Auvik Networks, a Canadian enterprise networking startup. He is the former Chief Technology Officer of Software at Research In Motion (BlackBerry).

David received his B. Math from the University of Waterloo in 1983 and an MBA from Wilfred Laurier University in 1988. After completing his undergraduate degree, David went to work for Watcom, an early UW spinoff, developing language interpreters and compilers, transitioning to the development of the SQL Anywhere database management system.

David was at RIM from 1998 until 2012, and in addition to his management responsibilities was often involved in the design (and sometimes implementation) of the end-to-end BlackBerry solution. David is a co-founder of Auvik Networks, a SaaS solution for managing corporate wired and wireless networks, and was CTO from its founding in 2012 until his retirement in 2019.

Mr. Yach is the inventor or co-inventor on numerous patents and patent applications. He is the recipient of the 2004 J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation from the University of Waterloo.