Lorien is an entrepreneur and lawyer who was born in Malaysia while
his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. Off to a
cool start...
Lorien is an entrepreneur and lawyer who was born in Malaysia while
his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. Off to a
cool start, he spent the next few years of his life in Hawaii, San
Diego, India…before settling into the much more exciting, colorful and
exceedingly polite land of Canada.
In 1994, at the age of 24, when Lorien’s younger brother Matt asked him to run
his bourgeoning internet company, Lorien did what any self-respecting lawyer of 6
months would do--he quit. He moved the company from their parent’s basement
and over the next four years managed the growth of Interlog, one of Canada’s
first commercial ISP’s, to over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and annualized
revenue exceeding $12M. The company was then acquired by a large multinational
telecommunications provider. Determined not to be one hit wonders.
Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire
Networks - a managed web hosting and data-center provider which was one
of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was
acquired by AT&T Canada.
In 2003, Lorien moved to New York City. When not snowboarding or
surfing, Lorien has been known to run divisions of Fortune 500
companies (Micron), spearhead the exponential U.S. growth of a UK based
tech company (MessageLabs) as Global VP, Business Development, serve on
the advisory board of a number of start-ups (including Canada Web
Hosting) and whip up a mean breakfast of Spanish eggs.
Lorien has a LLB from Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School and is a
member in good standing with the Ontario Bar. He resides in NYC where
he can be seen running along the west side highway listening to the
latest DJ mix or a CBC Canada political podcast.
