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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

As the CEO of DDS, I was committed to shaping and executing our strategic vision while ensuring alignment with overarching objectives. Focused on driving growth, I led the revitalization of our core business units through strategic consolidation, transformation, and dynamic commercialization of the product portfolio.• Led the development of vision and strategy to achieve consistent and sustainable growth.• Reorganized and optimized operations across all global regions to enhance efficiencies and foster increased collaboration and alignment, driving cohesive synergy and maximizing overall performance.• Drove global operations and fostered growth by prioritizing the rapid integration of acquired entities, streamlining unprofitable product lines, and right-sizing various business units for optimal performance.• Championed innovation to develop cutting-edge vertical and horizontal products, positioning DDS at the forefront of cloud-based AI solutions in global markets.• Completed and launched the company’s strategic SaaS product, which had been continuously delayed for over 12 years, in less than 2 years after assuming the CEO role. • Overhauled the sales infrastructure to commercialize the new SaaS product in previously dormant key markets, securing multiple high-value contracts after a six-year period of no new client acquisition.• Increased overall sales growth by over 400% in the second year (over 2000% in EU and UK), with projections indicating even stronger performance for the current year.• Implemented cost-saving initiatives that reduced costs by over 30% (on target to reach 40% in the current year), improving efficiencies and throughput across the company.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

Transformed and positioned organization as a hypergrowth software company ranking amongst the top in the industry via cutting-edge SaaS platform, integrated payments, and commerce-accelerating technologies worldwide. Oversaw strategy, operations, finance, and product,• Spearheaded vision, mission, values, and strategy to produce consistent and lasting growth impacts.• Improved employee engagement while balancing requirements during significant transition and change during COVID, M&A transaction, business model integration, and cultural changes.• Negotiated/closed high-value M&A transactions with Advent International and completed global operations integration as the principal liaison with investors and stakeholders despite multiple challenges.• Achieved multi-year hypergrowth by posting a CAGR of 55%, including boosting annual recurring revenue 1000%, client base 1000%, and profit 450%. • Overhauled sales organization, increasing YoY sales 30%+ despite economic headwinds, emerging competitor offerings, and M&A transaction impacts. Achieved record customer satisfaction and cut costs 30%+.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

Led and supervised all business activities and overall company performance & growth. Oversaw strategy, operations, commercial, and finance. Positioned PerfectMind as one of the fastest-growing SaaS business management solutions in the industry. Consistently exceeded “the Rule of 40” financial framework. • Built fully operational and high-performance distributed teams worldwide. Grew the team 650%+ to 250+ FTEs in 3 years. Delivered drastic improvements to capacity, scalability, and efficiencies and achieved record annualized cost savings of 35%+. • Directed and managed corporate budgeting, forecasting, and resourcing, overhauled finance & accounting department’s processes, policies, and internal controls to ensure compliance and reporting accuracy.• Led all M&A and capital raising initiatives across their entire lifecycle. Sourced, negotiated, and received several M&A offers and term sheets for raising capital through debt or equity.• Developed superior go-to-market strategies to achieve sustained competitive advantage while boosting sales. Enabled the smooth integration of sales & marketing activities to increase ROI 40%+.• Oversaw global infrastructure transformation programs, including migrating IT/IS infrastructure to AWS to enhance global offerings and overall business resilience.

Led all business operations surrounding market-leading SaaS technology company in health and fitness. Provided valued input to the CEO to set and align vision and strategic direction, increasing knowledge at every opportunity with new technologies and business tactics. Organized budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation.• Overhauled finance and accounting departments to address chronic performance issues.• Rebuilt customer service department to improve productivity 300% and CSAT to 90%+ while reducing cost by 30%. Provided training to senior management, building a workforce of customer-focused leaders.• Revamped sales & marketing to align with changing market dynamics, increasing sales 30% and boosting opportunity pipeline 50%. Introduced other biz development strategies to enhance growth & profitability.• Improved product security and performance, achieving 40% cost reduction and 99.9% up-time.• Managed full-scale amalgamation and rebranding while constantly seeking out new savings opportunities.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Led large-scale fintech projects for T1/T2 financial institutions, including Canadian Tire Financial Services, American Express, Central1, First West CU, Westminster Savings Credit Union, Envision Financial, Alberta Motor Associations, and more. Guided highly complex banking projects with budgets of up to $50M annually.• Managed highly complex banking systems conversions and technology transformations from contract negotiations to solution implementation and post-implementation support• Sought as the go-to business and technology advisor to CIO, CTO and the Executive teams.

Mba

Masters

Cpa

Cma, Management Accounting

Pmp

Beng - Computer Engineering