Conrad Guziewicz and Sandbank Homes Inc.

Not Conrad Black. He's busy these days getting ready with his co-defendants and lawyer Eddie Greenspan for his fraud trial scheduled to open March 14 in federal district court in Chicago. No, down here in the County these days when you mention Conrad you may well thinking of another Conrad -- and a very popular, if somewhat mysterious one, at least to some local folks. That would be none other than Conrad Guziewicz. Conrad who? That's right, Conrad Guziewicz, the man, who along with Picton-based Sandbank Homes Inc., has just donated $200,000 worth of land in Wellington to Duff Sprague's new Prince Edward County Family Health Team to allow Dr. Helen Cluett and Dr. Blair Scrivens to build a new clinic. The docs are now located in somewhat cramped office space at Wellington on the Lake, which bills itselt as an active adult lifestyle community with almost 300 homes built since 1998. If you want to know more about Sandbank Homes Inc. or Sandbank Developments Group, you can visit them at 35 Bridge St. in Picton or give them a jingle toll-free at (800) 353-7823 or (613) 471-2001 if you're in the local calling area.

As for learning m0re about Wellington benefactor Conrad Guziewicz, you might want to check out the vice-president of sales at ZipLip, Inc. in San Jose, California, who has more than 20 years of high-tech and information technology experience in selling to Fortune 500 customers under his belt.

Previously he served as director of sales at Foundry Networks in Santa Clara, California, where he formed the global go-to-market strategy that grew sales from under $1 million to more than $40 million in 12 months, resulting in Foundry Networks having the third-largest IPO in NASDAQ history. Among the deals he did at Foundry was one with NetRover Inc. of Sarnia, Ont., an Internet provider with some customers here in the County, although operating primarily in southwestern Ontario.

Prior to Foundry, Guziewicz was vice-president of worldwide sales at GigaLabs Inc. of Sunnyvale, California. He also served as director of sales and channels at Santa Clara-based UB Networks, where he managed a $100 million business unit. A wholly-owned unit of Tandem Computers Inc. in Cupertino, California, Tandem sold UB Networks to Newbridge Networks of Kanata, Ontario.

ZipLip, founded in 1999, makes email archiving software, integrating compliance, discovery, storage offloading and knowledge management on a single system. Additional capabilities include secure email and secure file management. Customers include Walgreens, ADP, Hancock Bank, Morgan Keegan, Regions Bank and Bank of New York.