In the role of President, Bruce will focus on the day-to-day operations of HumanWare, ensuring that we optimally manufacture and bring to market the best products in the industry while continuing to maximize customer satisfaction. Bruce will also be responsible for effectively integrating new strategic partners to provide additional innovative solutions to our customers.

Bruce has been with HumanWare for 18 months, leading the commercial organization in the role of Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. In this role, he has aligned and focused the commercial activities, resulting in accelerated sales growth. He has been in the optical industry for 10 years as an executive at Essilor, the global leader in vision correction. Bruce is a Chartered Professional Accountant; he also has an MBA from McGill University and a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University.

Bruce will continue to report to Gilles, who will be able to spend more time focusing on the long-term strategic management of HumanWare, including the R&D product roadmap as well as identifying strategic industry partnerships.

“I am honoured and very excited to continue to passionately pursue our mission of empowering people with vision loss to fully participate in society by providing innovative solutions.” says Bruce Miles. “There are so many opportunities to pursue, it is a very dynamic time in our industry.”

“With my over 30 years in the industry, we are seeing unprecedented industry changes that are bringing great opportunities to provide even better solutions to our customers with vision loss,” adds Gilles Pepin. “Please join me in congratulating Bruce on his new position.”