About: As a professional independent director, Best has served on both for-profit and not-for-profit boards. These included the for-profit boards of Consultronics (member), a telecommunications test equipment manufacturer , Novotech Ventures, Inc, (chairman) a food processing commercialization venture supported by all the major food processing corporations of North America, Home Ticket Network (chairman), a web-based entertainment ticketing corporation, Poptronik (Chairman), a motion picture, music and multimedia development company, SavageTel (chairman), an ISP based phone service and IFM (member), a financial management company. He also served on the boards of Saynor Varah Inc. (member), an electronic component distributor, and Fonorola, Inc. (member), a Tier 2 Telecommunications Service Provider. His service on not-for-profit boards included The Institute of Corporate Directors (Canada) (member), The Information Technology Association of Canada (founding member), York Technology Association York (member) Competitive Telecommunications Association (founding chairman), Canadian Federal Government SAGIT committee for international trade (member), and the North American ISDN Users Forum (member).