By the looks of his Linkedin acct, Stephane left both his Sr. director position at IDT and the RapidIO steering commitee to take on the task of the SCC.
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/stephane-gagnon/0/b85/97
That's a huge endorsement IMO!
And to show the kind of folks he's rubbing shoulders with, here's the RapidIO partner list:
http://www.rapidio.org/about/list/
Air Force Research Lab
ASML
Altera Corporation **
Aeroflex
BAE SYSTEMS
Broadcom
Cadence Design Systems
Cavium Networks
CommAgility
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
Eclipse Electronic Systems, Inc.
ELTA Systems, Ltd.
Fabric Embedded Tools Corporation
Freescale Semiconductor *
General Dynamics - AIS
HCL Technologies Ltd.
HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd.
Honeywell Aerospace
Huawei Technologies
IDT, Inc.*
IIT - Madras
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LSI Corporation
Mercury Computer Systems
Mindspeed Technologies
Mobiveil**
N.A.T.
Nexus Technology, Inc.
Nokia Siemens Networks
Praesum Communications **
Prodrive NL **
RIOLAB Corporation
Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis
of the Russian Academy of Sciences SRISA
SEAKR
Silicon Turnkey Express
Tabula, Inc.
Texas Instruments *
Xilinx *
See any familiar names in there?! 
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