About Northern Village
A personalized, collaborative, "village" approach
Northern Village is based on Guelph, Ontario. We were established in 2002, and are a certified B Corporation, a designation that verifies the company meets high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.
We make sure we do things right, and take pride in providing personalized customer service through a collaborative approach. Our "village" of carefully vetted creative and technical experts provides a wide range of complementary services, including content development, SEO optimization and social media management.
We’ll deliver a complete project from start to finish, or integrate with your existing team for specialized support, according to your needs. Either way, your end result will be an engaging website and efficient software solutions at an affordable cost.
Northern Village Team
Arni Mikelsons has been building software and websites since the beginning of the Internet. He founded Northern Village to help small businesses, organizations and charities have accessible technology. He combines his software experience at Open Text and Burntsand with his care for the community to deliver purpose-driven solutions. Arni brings extensive board governance and volunteer leadership experience to empower innovation and creativity in the Northern Village team. Arni is currently the Chair of B Local Ontario.
Fun Fact Hockey, hiking, rock collecting, cycling.
Erin Caton is an accomplished project and product manager with substantial experience in web development, and app development. At Apple Inc., Erin was a senior engineering project manager on .Mac, .Me and iCloud. Erin has also worked on the NPR and eBay iPad apps via Strobe Inc. Prior to this, Erin primarily managed website development for EA Games and Nintendo through digital agency Blast Radius. They also had a long career in online games, working their way up from IT support to Director of Web Development with Mindspan Entertainment.
Fun Fact Gardening and biking on Guelph's amazing trails with their daughter.
Chinthan is a software developer with strong skills in cloud architecture, artificial intelligence, and backend systems. He approaches problem-solving with a balance of technical depth and clear communication, valuing collaboration and shared ownership within teams. At Northern Village, Chinthan contributes to building scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions while working closely with others to support mission-driven initiatives.
Fun Fact Playing cricket, skating, and trekking.
Dr. Mark Goldberg is a serial entrepreneur who has started 4 companies and an NGO. He has over 25 years’ experience in business in several capacities, including director of research, CEO and board chair. He currently works part time as a Mentor at Innovation Guelph where he helps entrepreneurs start and scale up technology companies.
Fun Fact Favourite sport is hockey but also skiing, canoeing, fishing and hiking.
By placing intelligence at the edges, rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Vinton Cerf
Internet pioneer