Rob Cruickshank has been appointed president of the British Columbia Technology Industries Association (BC TIA), replacing George Hunter who stepped down last March to devote his full time to the presidency of Leading Edge British Columbia. Cruickshank comes to BC TIA from TELUS/BCTEL where he held several executive positions including president of BCTEL Mobility. He left BCTEL when it merged with TELUS in 1999 and served as president of Mobile Data Solutions before returning to the merged company in 2001. Cruickshank attended the Harvard Business School program for Management Developmentā¦.