Ian McPhee is a Canadian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
When McPhee was an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo he was a protege of influential professor Wes Graham.
[2] Graham assigned McPhee to work on Watfor, a Fortran compiler optimized for efficiently compiling the typical student program.
[2][3] McPhee became an executive at Sybase when it acquired Watcom.
McPhee would serve as an executive or director of several more successful software companies, currently being a director at NexJ Systems Inc.[2] He is also a member of the University of Waterloo's Board of Governors, as well as making notable donations.