Built by operators who have shipped before.
SkyeConnex was founded in Ottawa, Canada to make data sovereignty enforceable at the data layer — not promised in a contract. The team has built and exited enterprise infrastructure before, and is building this one for the regulated buyers who can no longer accept "trust us."
The thesis
Trust models scale with relationships. Mathematical guarantees scale with files. Every previous sovereign cloud offering has been a relationship: with a national champion provider, with a regional reseller, with a contractual framework. SkyeConnex's design choice is to encode the guarantee in the data itself.
That decision shapes everything: the cryptographic stack is FIPS-only so the certification path is months not years; the storage substrate is multi-cloud RAID rather than multi-cloud sync; the sovereignty surface is a real-time view rather than a quarterly audit. See the architecture.
Where we are
The platform is in production at app.skyeconnex.com. More than 400 HTTP API endpoints. 14 storage provider plugins. Six client surfaces. A sovereign on-prem inference subsystem, CPU or GPU. Post-quantum encryption (FIPS 203 ML-KEM-1024) and post-quantum signatures (FIPS 204 ML-DSA-87) shipping today.
A 90-day pilot proposal is in the hands of the Honourable David McGuinty, Minister of National Defence. Active executive engagement is in train at Treasury Board, Health Canada, the federal cyber team, and at the Senate level. The Standards Council of Canada has engaged us through its Technical Committee on Data Sovereignty. BARC briefed our architecture and characterized SkyeConnex as the first and only operational implementation of the patterns their findings describe. Gartner has been briefed.
Corporate & counsel
Patents pending — SkyeConnex (39 claims, DGSI-aligned) and SkyeGXU. Corporate and securities counsel: Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. Standard Canadian corporate structure. Ottawa-headquartered.
Leadership
Operators with decades of experience in enterprise infrastructure, distributed systems, and growth-stage finance — shipping SkyeConnex from architecture to production.
Founder of AssetMetrix, the first IT-asset-management SaaS platform — acquired by Microsoft, where the platform's core became the foundation of Microsoft Intune and elements of Microsoft Graph. Subsequently founded CykoMetrix. Three decades operating at the intersection of enterprise infrastructure, IT operations, and what is now called observability. Architect of the SkyeConnex platform.
LinkedIn →Kimihiko leads SkyeConnex's technology strategy, guiding our distributed systems architecture and platform engineering to deliver secure, resilient storage at scale.
Lora oversees SkyeConnex's financial operations and growth strategy, ensuring the company scales sustainably as adoption accelerates. Public-company and growth-stage finance background.
LinkedIn →Sean brings 20+ years in the MSP channel, with Level Platforms, SolarWinds/N-able and ConnectWise, and was named to SMB Nation’s Top 150 (2010) and SMB 150 (2012). He leads business development and the strategic channel program: partners, resellers, and route-to-market for sovereign storage. Based in Ottawa.
LinkedIn →Governance & strategic oversight
Experienced directors guiding SkyeConnex, with deep expertise across regulatory affairs, governance, enterprise software, finance, and long-term company building.
Lawyer, energy executive and corporate director with three decades of regulatory, environmental and governance experience. President of Blue Bridge Energy. Previously a board member of the National Energy Board, Vice-Chair of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, and General Counsel at Synenco Energy, with senior regulatory roles at Talisman Energy, PanCanadian Petroleum and Encana.
LinkedIn →Member of the Order of Canada. Long-tenured Canadian technology operator and entrepreneur, with a record of building, scaling, and exiting Ottawa-headquartered enterprise software companies.
LinkedIn →Senior CPA-CMA financial leadership across Canadian enterprise and not-for-profit sectors.
LinkedIn →Thirty-five years in enterprise software across Novell, Microsoft and Qualtrics. Helped create ZENworks and rose to VP at Novell, then eighteen years at Microsoft building multiple billion-dollar businesses and new classes of products, followed by five years at Qualtrics.
LinkedIn →Trusted guidance from industry experts
Advisors bringing decades of insight in enterprise IT economics, public-sector leadership, and strategic technology operations.
Recognized across the industry as the "Father of TCO" — the Gartner analyst who originated the Total Cost of Ownership methodology in 1987 and built it into the dominant enterprise IT economics framework of the next twenty-five years.
LinkedIn →Four decades commercializing pioneering technology — guiding B2B startups from funding through to acquisition. Enterprise go-to-market leadership built at Microsoft, HP, and EDS.
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