Practitioners first.
Builders second.

Our leadership team has run the operations we now serve. Managed the shifts. Inherited the spreadsheets. Troubleshot the legacy system at 3 a.m. Sat across the table from the auditor. That is not marketing language. That is the résumé.

Headquartered in Steinbach, Manitoba. Customers across North America. One hiring filter. Operational scars required.

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The people
running mode40.

Every name on this page has operated inside the environment they now help customers navigate. That is the non-negotiable. Titles come second.

Cameron Bergen

Founder and CEO

Thirty years in agri-food. Twenty-plus of them inside one of Canada’s largest primary food processors, moving from the field into senior operational leadership. Helped design a $150M processing facility that became Manitoba’s second-largest capital project the year it was built. Generated over $300M in documented annual savings with his team before any of it was commercialized. The business was acquired for over a billion dollars in 2018.

Founded mode40 in his basement in Steinbach in 2020. Known for a grounded, common-sense approach. His standard is simple. The solution adapts to how operations actually work, and the data has to prove its worth.

Featured in Tech Exec Magazine. Speaker at Hannover Messe 2026. Active in manufacturing, food, and defense ecosystems across Canada and the U.S.

Tracy Gromniski

Chief Product Officer

Sixteen-plus years building machine learning and enterprise software systems. Raised on a 150-cow dairy in La Broquerie, Manitoba. Red River College. Former Applications Manager at the same Canadian food processor where Cam spent his career. Former SVP of Business Solutions and Technology at Ellement Consulting Group. Former CEO at Strive Business Solutions, where she led digital transformation across pension, benefit, and group annuity administration.

Joined mode40 as Chief Product Officer in 2024. Runs the product organization. Keeps the platform honest. Her standard: if it does not work in production, it does not ship.

Brandon Wright

Director of Sales

Runs the sales organization at mode40. Works with prospects and customers across manufacturing, aerospace, education, and healthcare. The first voice most new customers hear from the firm, and the person accountable for whether a fit is real before we run a workshop.

Kerry Harris

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Builds and manages mode40’s alliance layer. Industry bodies, technology partners, investor relationships, and the deeper commercial partnerships that move the firm’s reach beyond the plant floor. Operates at the intersection of sales, partner strategy, and industry representation.

Meghan Esau

Sales, Lila

Leads sales for Lila, mode40’s comprehension platform. Focused on education and training environments where the data problem shows up in curriculum, student outcomes, and workforce development. Former educator and training operator before moving into enterprise sales.

Chip Martens

Director of Brand Marketing

Runs brand, creative, and demand for mode40 and its platforms. Twenty years in creative leadership and brand strategy across regulated, complex, and operationally dense categories. Responsible for how mode40 shows up in the market — from positioning through campaigns through sales enablement.

The Wider Team

The firm behind the founders.

mode40 is not the founders. It is a team of engineers, analysts, product designers, and practitioners who pass the same hiring filter every leader here has passed. Plant managers who became software architects. Production planners who became data engineers. Auditors who became compliance product leads. Developers who came up through operations, not the other way around.

The team works out of Steinbach, across Canada, across the United States, and with partner teams abroad. Every engagement is staffed with people who have operated inside the kind of environment the engagement is for.

  • 40+

    practitioners, engineers, and product leaders

  • 3

    countries (Canada, United States,
    and partner teams abroad)

  • 1

    hiring filter

How we decide
who works here.

Every role at mode40, regardless of title, is filtered through the same question. Has this person lived inside the kind of environment we serve.

Not adjacent. Not observed. Lived.

If the answer is yes, the rest of the interview is about craft, judgment, and fit. If the answer is no, the interview ends politely. That filter is what keeps the practitioner claim real. It is also why our team can sit down with a plant manager, a compliance lead, or a program director and speak the way a peer speaks. Not the way a vendor speaks.

“Would a plant manager sit down with this person at lunch and talk about real problems?”

That is the interview question under every interview question.

We hire for scars.
We hire often.

If you have worked inside a plant, a supply chain, a classroom, or a clinic and want to build the tools the next version of that environment will actually use, we would like to hear from you.