PETERBOROUGH – Norm Slater, who in 1993 helped found Capella Telecommunications Inc. and served as the president of the broadcast and television vendor for 23 years, passed away on Tuesday, one day short of his 69th birthday.
Slater battled pancreatic cancer over the past six years, according to Wayne Rabey, who replaced Slater as president when he retired in 2016 from the company that provides technical solutions to the broadcast, cable television and telco market.
Rabey said he passed away peacefully.
Slater spent 40 years in the industry. In 1976, he joined Cablesystems Engineering, the forerunner of Rogers Engineering, after graduating from the University of Western Ontario in engineering. He was involved in the engineering of cable plant as Rogers expanded in the U.S. in the early 1980s. He later joined Comlink supporting customers deploying technically complex systems.
“The industry has been very good to me over the years with the opportunity to make many friends and to be part of an exciting period of technical change,” Slater said when he announced his retirement in 2016. “After 40 years, I’ve decided to spend more time with my family.”
