Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 25, 2004
RODERICK M. World Heart Corporation, and has held this position since
January 2000. Mr. Bryden was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
World Heart Corporation from April 1996 to December 1999. He has been a
member of the Board of Directors since the inception of the company in
1996. Mr. Bryden founded World Heart Corporation in 1996, along with the
Ottawa Heart Institute and Dr. Tofy Mussivand. From 1993 until 2003, Mr.
Bryden was the owner of the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club of the National
Hockey League, as well as the owner of the Corel Centre, the team's home
ice facility. From 1991 until present, Mr. Bryden served as Chairman of
SC Stormont Corporation, a financial management services company, of
which he was also the principal owner and one of three founders. Over
the past several years, SC Stormont Corporation has served as a
corporate vehicle for managing the ownership of Mr. Bryden's corporate
affairs and does not currently engage in active business. In 1974, Mr.
Bryden founded Systemhouse Ltd. and was President or Chairman of
Systemhouse until June 1991. During this period, Systemhouse grew to
become Canada's leading computer integration company with over 3,000
employees. In 1974, Mr. Bryden founded Paperboard Industries Corporation
(PIC) and was Chairman of PIC until 1991, during which period PIC grew
to become Canada's largest manufacturer of paper from recycled fiber,
and the largest manufacturer of paperbox packaging, with revenues of
$700 million and 4,000 employees. He received his education from Mount
Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick; the University of New
Brunswick, Fredericton; and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From
1967 to 1969, Mr. Bryden was Professor of Law at the University of
Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. In 1969, Mr. Bryden moved to Ottawa and held
various positions with the government of Canada, including Assistant
Deputy Minister of Regional Economic Expansion, prior to the
commencement of his independent business endeavors at the end of 1973. Profile
Mr. Bryden: WorldHeart is a business focused on delivering heart assist
devices that are implantable in late-stage heart
