Richard May
Industrial Technology Advisor at University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRichard May is an entrepreneurial technology executive and advisor with nine years of recent experience guiding SMEs and startups from concept to market, currently serving as an Industrial Technology Advisor at NRC-IRAP in Calgary. He has a rare blend of hands-on product and R&D leadership—having founded and led companies that secured venture and grant funding, filed patents, and launched novel wireless and AI-driven products—while also driving operational transformations that unlocked millions in revenue recovery. Richard regularly teaches new venture finance and innovation courses at the University of Calgary and SAIT, translating practical startup and VC experience into curriculum and hands-on coaching. Known for building strategic alliances across industry, academia and investors, he excels at repeatable go-to-market playbooks, process optimization, and early-stage due diligence. A subtle differentiator is his track record of commercializing deep-technology IP (from chirp spread-spectrum wireless to enterprise AI) while maintaining a practitioner’s focus on measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Marketing and International Business, MBA, Marketing and International Business at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityB ESc, Electrical Engineering, Dean's Honour List, B ESc, Electrical Engineering, Dean's Honour List at Western University
English, Spanish, French, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
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raspberry2
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raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
richamay/ButtterDIsh
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
richamay/esp-at-lib
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Communicate with wifi mcu from host MCU using AT parser library
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
hostcommunicateespressifparser-librarymcu
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