About us

Maestro Digital Mine manufactures Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices and last mile digital networks for the underground mining sector.

Our products and solutions deliver worker safety and productivity improvements while reducing the mines energy and greenhouse gas footprint.

Maestro Digital Mine provides significant CAPEX and OPEX savings to the mines project delivery, technology (IT/OT), ventilation, energy occupational heath & safety professionals.

Our Core Purpose

To enhance lives by the pursuit of productivity and safety excellence. Read More

Our Core Values

• Striving for Excellence
• Winning by Merit
• Integrity and Accountability
• Industry Leading Innovation
• Listen, Learn, Act
• Service before Self

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Our Vision

Our vision is to change the way that underground mines communicate and to strip out complexity in the automation sector by utilizing IIoT solutions and driving down CAPEX and OPEX.

Working in partnership with the mining companies to develop solutions to real-time challenges, our digital solutions are recognized in over 38 countries and deployed globally in 150+ mines.

Product Positioning

• More time at the face and higher production rates by allowing safer and quicker re-entry times after blasting.
  Regulation and compliance monitoring by using modern IIoT devices and software tools for accurate and real-time data capture.
• Energy savings by directing ventilation air to the areas that require it and reducing it to the areas without miners or operating equipment.
• Greenhouse gas reduction to support global warming and energy initiatives by reducing the ventilation demand by 20-50%.
• CAPEX reductions by replacing expensive and complicated legacy hardware and software including analog based instrumentation and PLCs with modern, reliable and proven IIoT devices.
• OPEX reductions by eliminating legacy equipment and providing real-time diagnostics and maintenance decisions for IIoT maximum uptime.

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Maestro Digital Mine is proud to be members of the following associations:

Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce
sudburychamber.ca

Mine Connect
mineconnect.com

CIM ICM
cim.org

MSTA Canada
mstacanada.ca

Michael J. Gribbons

President, CEO and Co-founder

Mechanical Engineer – University of Waterloo (1984)
President of Synergy Controls Corporation (Incorporated in 1992)
President of High Grade Controls Corporation (Incorporated in 2012)

Mr. Gribbons was born and raised in the Sudbury region. Michael has 38 years of experience in mining and industrial process control. Synergy Controls, under Michael's leadership, has won dozens of sales awards along with two Innovation Awards since its inception in 1992.

As CEO and co-founder, Maestro has received two Innovation Awards, an IoT Commercialization Award and recently a Company of the Year Award. Michael has been an active volunteer with the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce in advancing roles as board director, treasurer and sitting on the executive board. Michael also served two terms as a board director and treasurer of CAMESE, now called MSTA a national (Mining Supply and Services Trade Association), two terms as Board Director and Vice President of MineConnect as well as a two terms of Board Director and co-chair of MIRARCO Mining Innovation.

Steve Moutsatsos

Corporate Counsel

Queen’s University – LL.B. (1987)
London School of Economics – LLM (1993)

After five years of service on Toronto's Bay Street, Mr. Moutsatsos returned to Sudbury in 1993. Steve provides corporate and commercial law within the mining sector.