Executives and Board

Kevin Simzer

Senior Vice President, Marketing

Kevin Simzer is the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Entrust and is responsible for all aspects of marketing globally including product management, marketing and business development. With over 17 years of experience in the software development industry, Kevin has held a variety of executive roles.

Kevin’s career began at Bell Northern Research, Nortel’s Research and Development arm, working in several organizations all focused on the software for large-scale telephone switching systems. Key projects include the world’s first telephone switching system supporting Integrated Services Digital Network and a highly scalable distributed system built using Advanced Intelligent Networking technology.

In 1995, Kevin joined a strategic business unit within Nortel called Nortel Secure Networks. Excitingly, within 1 year, the business unit was spun-out from Nortel and Entrust was born. During his 8 year tenure at Entrust, Kevin has held various senior management and executive roles. Most recently, Kevin was responsible for all aspects of Research & Development at Entrust and was instrumental in transforming the product portfolio.

In addition to his career at Entrust, Kevin is a founder and co-President of the Canadian-based Software Executive forum. The sole objective of this industry forum is the betterment of software products through the sharing of technology, process, procedures and best practices. Members include Cognos, Corel, Entrust, IBM, and Oracle (amongst others).

Kevin completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa and St. Lawrence College. In addition, he earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.