Management Team

Barry Matfield - Chief Executive Officer

Barry is the president and co-founder of SageKey. "I quip that I'm the chief bottlewasher. My primary job is setting the tone, being the custodian of the culture and influencing conditions to tend naturally towards success. I strongly believe in using influence and common goals rather than brute force to create results. Exceptional things happen when people resonate together well."

Barry has an Honors Degree in Electronic Engineering from Bath University, England where he specialized in Digital Computing and Signal Processing. After a year travelling around the middle east and a stint working in Africa on an oil exploration crew, Barry joined Mobil Oil, Canada focusing in the areas of high tech computing and geophysics. He spent the last 8 years at Mobil in various management positions. At Mobil, Barry was also trained as a process reengineering and meetings facilitator.

In 1995, Barry and his wife Barbara moved to the Okanagan Valley in British Colombia as a conscious lifestyle change and together they started SageKey Software. SageKey has consistently grown over its 14 years and currently has over 3500 customers in more than 50 countries.

Barb Matfield - Chief Financial Officer

Barb is vice president and co-founder of SageKey. "My main role is company visionary and growth mentor. I focus on in house processes, long term vision and growth of the company. I've taken on many roles as SageKey has grown, While I've always been the long term thinker for the company, over the years I've had my hands in most of our infrastructure components. Barry and I have always taken joint responsible for hiring and looking after our people."

Barb was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. She started her career as a nurse in 1972 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and worked at that profession for the next seven years. In 1983, Barb traded in her scrubs and joined the oil and gas industry in Calgary where for the next 11 years she worked in the Geophysics dept at Canadian Hunter Oil and Gas Inc. She praises Canadian Hunter for being an exceptional place to work: inspiring their people to be entrepreneurs and practice progressive, people centric business practises.

In 1995 Barb and her husband Barry took a leap of faith, left the oil and gas industry and moved to the Okanagan Valley for a less hectic lifestyle. It is here that they started SageKey Software.

Steve Sharman - Technology Manager

Steve has a Bachelors Degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. While attending Simon Fraser, Steve participated in the Co-op education program where he gained valuable real-world employment experience in a range of Software and IT roles.

After graduating in 2000, he started working full time for Quest Software in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he had worked during one of his co-op work terms. At Quest, he progressed from a junior developer into a lead developer position on Quest's ActiveRoles, an Active Directory Enterprise Management application.

In 2002, Steve returned to the Okanagan Valley and spent two years with SkyTrac Systems working on their flight tracking software and firmware for their satellite based flight tracking hardware. In 2004 he joined the team at SageKey Software and was part of the development team for the Cardiovascular Goal Manager software.

Over the next five years, Steve displayed his expertise and knowledge on numerous occasions, and in April of 2009 Steve was made Technology Manager. He currently to oversees SageKey’s IT infrastructure and leads the research and development of new technologies.