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Quarterhill Appoints Chuck Myers as CEO
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Quarterhill Appoints Chuck Myers as CEO\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n TORONTO\n \n \n ,\n \n \n Sept. 5, 2023\n \n \n /CNW/ - Quarterhill Inc. (\"Quarterhill\" or the \"Company\") (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF), a leading provider of tolling and enforcement solutions in the Intelligent Transportation System (\"ITS\") industry, announces that\n \n Chuck Myers\n \n , a member of its Board of Directors (the \"Board\"), has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (\"CEO\") of the Company.\n \n \n A member of the Quarterhill Board since\n \n May 2023\n \n , Mr. Myers most recently served as CEO and board member of Cogniac Corporation, a\n \n San Jose, California\n \n -based provider of enterprise-class AI deep learning solutions that automate visual inspection through image and video analysis. Under his leadership, Cogniac was named \"2021 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in Computer Vision\" by Frost & Sullivan and \"A Global Leader\" by IDC in 2022.\n \n \n \"Chuck's ITS background, public company experience and familiarity with Quarterhill makes him the ideal CEO and leader for the Company,\" said\n \n Rusty Lewis\n \n , Chair of the Board at Quarterhill. \"Chuck brings more than 25 years of leadership experience as a CEO, board member, and founder for private and public companies, including a co-founding role at Transcore, an ITS leader, and we are very excited for him to take the wheel at Quarterhill to drive growth in the business and in shareholder value.\"\n \n \n Mr. Lewis continued: \"At the same time, I'd like to thank\n \n John Gillberry\n \n for his many years as a director of the company, as well as his most recent stint as Interim CEO. John retired from Quarterhill's board earlier this year and assumed the Interim CEO role at a time when the Company needed to make difficult decisions to stabilize operations and lay a firm foundation for growth. An experienced special situation executive, John led the charge, resulting in the implementation of the Company's \"shared services\"...