Ira Thomas Traves

Prior to Knight's Bridge, Mr. Traves was the founding resident officer and division President of Packard Bell NEC Computers, for over 14 years, leading the Canadian business from its start in 1985.
Mr. Traves co-founded and led a successful Los Angeles, California based business specializing in smart card technologies for the Internet that supports affinity marketing services and applications for international credit card issuers and their related national banking members.
After the successful sale of that business he subsequently invested in, founded and built the new Canadian division of a global manufacturer and distributor of proprietary imaging products.
He has been able to combine his significant strategic sales, marketing and operational experience and he has successfully leveraged these management and leadership skills in leading both large enterprise businesses as well as start ups in Canada and the United States.
He truly understands private equity and sophisticated deal transactions, he has been on both sides of the negotiating table.
Mr. Traves is also an Ontario lawyer and a member in good standing of The Law Society of Upper Canada since 1977.
He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and has worked for a number of years in the early part of his professional career, as a business development and advisory manager for the national accounting firm, Ernst & Young (then Clarkson Gordon) in its Entrepreneurial Services Group.
Mr. Traves presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of some of the Knight’s Bridge portfolio companies.