We are excited to announce the appointment of Randolph Mank to Lexum’s Board of Directors. Mr. Mank is a global business executive and a three-time former Canadian ambassador who brings over thirty years of experience in both the public and private sectors. In business, he has been Vice President Asia-Pacific for BlackBerry and President Asia-Pacific for SICPA of Switzerland. In government, he served as Canada’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia.
Currently, Mr. Mank is President of MankGlobal Inc, supporting clients with business development, government relations, and representation services while writing and speaking on global affairs. He serves on several boards and is also a Fellow of both the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He contributes articles to Troy Media and other fora and co-authored the book Emergency! Quarantine, Evacuation, and Back Again, published in the spring of 2022.
Born in Kitchener, Ontario, former Ambassador Mank obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo and conducted doctoral research at The London School of Economics. He speaks English, French, Japanese and Indonesian.
He joins Lexum’s other Board members:
- Antoine Aylwin, Lawyer, Partner and Chief Privacy Officer, Fasken, and Director, Barreau du Québec
- Crystal O’Donnell, Vice-chair, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Counsel, Heuristica LLP
- Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase
- Kayoko Takeuchi, Vice President, Administrative Services and CFO, Douglas College
With over thirty years of experience, Lexum offers online technology services designed for producers and managers of legal information, as well as digitization, conversion, and publishing services for legislation, case law, secondary material, and other legal materials.
“We are pleased to have Mr. Mank join our Board team. With their contributions, we are well positioned to realize our vision of offering products for easy and efficient access to legal information. Our goal is to expand our presence within the legal services market in North America and globally,” said Ivan Mokanov, President and CEO of Lexum.
Welcome to the Lexum team, Randolph!