David Snell of the Chartwell Group provides high technology consulting in the areas of operations management, sales and marketing strategic and tactical planning, business development management and investments.

Welcome to Chartwell Group

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“I shall not attempt to answer the question regarding what your business should be. First, one should not answer such a question off the top of one’s head. . . . secondly, one man’s opinion, no matter how brilliant, is at best one man’s opinion. I can only ask questions. The answers have to be yours.”*

*what Peter Drucker urged the founders of the investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette to ask themselves




​Thank you for visiting Chartwell Group. We are a private company founded in 2002 specializing in providing high technology consulting and services as follows:
  • Occasional equity investments in promising new category, disruptive technology, high tech companies like FusionPipe Software, RezMonkey, QuickMobile (bought by CVENT 2018), EasyRez (bought in 2014), MAKE Technologies (bought by Dell in April 2012) and HotHaus (bought by Broadcom for C$414M)
  • Speaking engagements (keynote, workshop, educational)
  • High technology interim executive assignments (executive, operating, sales, business and channel development, and marketing) and consulting
  • Longer term executive management contracts
  • Sales and marketing consulting, training, CRM, strategic selling and account planning seminars and tutorials
Why Chartwell? 
Whether your business is introducing a new product in a new category, starting-up, re-organizing, re-engineering or expanding, key elements to the success of the company are: planning and implementing your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or as some refer to it now, your MAP (Minimum Awesome Product); strategic and tactical planning; business plans for investment purposes, team building, target market analysis; and, product marketing, and professional sales and marketing management. 

You may need a change agent to assist you in moving the company in new directions. You may need to investigate a new or existing market, potential channels and strategic partners, pricing, promotional initiatives and develop launch plans. You may want to develop a plan to build the business, improve profitability and find a buyer to monitize your investments. You may need to grow your business from zero software revenue to a trajectory of $100M (we have helped do this several times). You may need help in developing a business plan and position your company to raise additional capital. Chartwell Group can assist you in all of these areas with proven methods and processes which will enable you to ensure your success.

Our clients include small entrepreneurial and medium sized companies in various high technology and vertical market areas.  We have served organizations in: Chartwell Group is committed to providing each and every one of our clients with the best solutions for their business, conducted in a professional manner.

Advantage Magazine - Life Without Passwords

Advantage Magazine article overviewing FusionPipe's unique approach to end user authentication and David Snell's career leading to his position as co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors

TC3 Interview

Canada Startup Awards

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Startup Canada Announces that David Snell, CEO and Chairman of FusionPipe Software Solutions Inc is the BC and North Senior Entrepreneur of the Year.

TIA Awards Gala Most Promising Start Up Finalists

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David Snell, CEO and Chairman of FusionPipe Software Solutions, accepts BC's Most Innovative Technology Company award, audience choice. The award was presented at the recent NextBC gala hosted by DigiBC at Vancouver's beautiful Science World. Fusionpipe was also selected for a second time as BC's most innovative tech companies.

                                                 Frommer's COMPETE CMO Conference

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Jan Snell joins Chartwell as a Senior Sales and Marketing Consultant 

Testimonials...Please see "About Us"

Chartwell Chatter - Current Sayings

Steve Jobs

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“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

Read more: Some Inspirational Sayings & Quotes By Steve Jobs 

Peter Drucker

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"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

Read more at: Peter Drucker sayings 
Zuckerberg at Munich Security Conference - see announcement below
Apple CEO Tim Cook Delivers Keynote at WWDC June 22nd, 2020

Chartwell Headlines - Latest News

Apple releases a public beta version of iOS 14, which is the newest version of the iPhone’s operating system: Apple on Thursday July 9th 2020 released the first public beta version of iOS 14, the latest version of the iPhone operating system. The software allows anyone with an iPhone that came out in 2015 or later to try out the software that will launch with iPhone models in the fall. It’s not the final, fully polished version of iOS 14 — that’s usually released in September...more

IBM Acquires Assets from Spanugo: ARMONK, N.Y., June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Spanugo, a US-based provider of cloud cybersecurity posture management solutions. To further meet the security demands of its clients in highly regulated industries, IBM will integrate Spanugo software into its public cloud...more

​CNET February 16th 2020 Zuckerberg: "Facebook content should be regulated, but under a new model At the Munich Security Conference, the Facebook exec reportedly pitches a system of regulating harmful content that's somewhere between a newspaper and a telco."​​

IBM Closes $34B Acquisition of Red Hat: The acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source, enterprise software maker, marks the close of IBM’s largest deal ever. It’s one of the biggest in U.S. tech history. Excluding the AOL-Time Warner merger, it follows the $67 billion deal between Dell and EMC in 2016 and JDS Uniphase’s $41 billion acquisition of optical-component supplier SDL in 2000...read more
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Apple iOS 14 Redesigned Home Screen With Widgets - Release Date Likely Sept 2020
The 5 biggest tech trends from CES 2020
  1. Impossible Pork redefines pigging out. Impossible Pork in a Banh Mi sandwich at CES 2020. ... 
  2. Toyota's city of the future has no human drivers. The Woven City will be located near Mount Fuji in Japan. ... 
  3. New sensors are coming to upgrade your health. ... 
  4. Computers are folding like phones. ... 
  5. Tech getting less techie and more subtle.

Top Tech Trends To Watch In 2020 

Mergermarket Technolgy January 23rd 2020: ​Every year, a handful of themes drive deal making. This year’s innovations are in the logistics, construction, retail and electric vehicle segments.

Top 10 travel tech trends for 2020

Travel Daily January 9th 2020:  Now is the perfect time to peel back the veil of perception and peer into future — of what is the most sci-fi sounding date you will ever experience, lest someone finds a way to hack that tricky mortality problem and we all get to cheer in the year 3000 — and take a look at ten travel tech trends we will be obsessed with this year.


                                           Lindsay Willms - Snell, Finalist (Top 5) 
                              in Canada's CBC Television Champions of Change
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Selected News Items 

Jan Snell Joins Chartwell, Vancouver: With over 20 years of sales, marketing and staffing experience, Jan Snell has joined Chartwell to help its clients in these areas of her expertise...more

Vancouver BC: Chartwell Group announces that its Pricipal David Snell, has spoken, or is scheduled to speak, at several major events and meetings as an expert speaker on end user digital authentication, mobile trends, the integration of mobile solutions with travel programs and social networking as follows:
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- Association of Travel Executives annual meetings New York, Paris, London and Berlin
- Hyatt Regency annual meeting of Accenture's Top World 100 CIO's Florida
- Global Business Travel Association's "Mobile Revolution - Why Should You Care?"
- cruise3sixty Fort Lauderdale - Mobile 101 Workshop​
- TC3 Telecom Council Mountain View
- ACTE Singapore - Integration of Mobile Solutions With Travel Programs Workshop
​- Disney DREAM Earmarked Conference  - Mobile in Travel and Entertainment Workshop
​- Motorola Start Up Day Schaumburg IL
- Vancouver Board of Trade with Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield
- B-Sides Security Conference Vancouver BC
- BCTIA Technology Impact Awards
​- Canadian Financing Forum
- RAMP Chicago 
- Green Meetings Industry Council, Montreal Canada
- IMEX "Mobile Revolution" Frankfurt 
- IMEX America "Mobile Revolution" Vegas
- COMPETE CMO Conference "Mobile Travel Apps with Frommer's Success Story 
- IMEX Frankfurt - Mobile For Events mobile industry workshop
- MTS Beaver Creek CO - Mobile 101
- BTMS London UK - Panel on Social Networking 
- Various other industry events

                           Whoopie Goldberg introduces Tribeca Film Festival mobile iPhone app:

                                                 

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David Snell of the Chartwell Group of Vancouver BC, provides high technology consulting in the areas of Executive management; change agent; strategic selling and training; target market, territory and sales development and management; channel and strategic partner relationships; online marketing. David Snell's experience includes: founding, expansion and sale of a vertical market software solutions company; leading Regional, National and International sales, services and marketing; and, the building and sale of two small high technology companies into worldwide leaders in their markets.