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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Founded the food start-up to address an underserved and growing niche market(keto desserts). Managed Strategy, Product Development, Production and Pricing,scaling it to CAD250k/year

Responsible for short- and long-term strategy development, and for providing guidance to senior leadership on risks and opportunities- Worked with the Asset Management BU to articulate their 5-year strategy

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for liaising with Technology and internal clients to improve a business intelligence tool for cross border payments - Went from zero banking experience to a subject matter expert in cross border payments and consulting source of business intelligence for multiple teams in the organization- Created tailored yet flexible self-serving business intelligence solutions after identifying internal customers' recurring needs- Managed operational expenses, budget and forecasting for Correspondent Banking

Responsible for defining the organizational structure of a newly created Marketing area. Negotiated with Sales and Product headcount, employees’ movement, roles and responsibilities

Responsible for developing actions, improving processes, offers and incentives so that the remote sales channels could reach their acquisition and retention targets (2 Mi units / year), leading a 16-people team - Created a success story getting a channel from a result crisis into a benchmark for others by demonstrating that revenues were a better metric than units- Developed tools that gave retention a fulsome client view, minimizing revenue loss, improving customer experience and retention - Owned forecasting, reporting and budget for all products' churn

Responsible for managing the Advanced Communications Solutions Portfolio for B2B (450 Mi CAD / year), leading a 14-people team, defining processes, pricing and portfolio development - Transformed the area from transactional and reactive to innovative, creating a roadmap with incremental improvements for the future vision of the portfolio - Spearheaded a cross-functional project to eliminate high liability legacy products- Mitigated the impact in the B2B BU of a $1 Mi CAD revenue write-off by gaining collaboration and prioritization from other BUs and support areas to identify the source of and solve an intercompany billing issue

Responsible for providing thought leadership to senior management- Led a 7-people team responsible for financial budget, results forecasting and reporting, 5-year strategic planning, main performance metrics (KPIs) and aligning business initiatives to the corporate strategy for all B2B Latin American operations - Created models used for forecasting, evaluation of trends, identification of opportunities and supporting strategic decision making- Held an advisory role to senior leadership on business planning and strategic decision making - Successfully led a cross-functional team in a high-level project to migrate 300k clients from the Residential to the B2B business unit, increasing the B2B client base by almost 40%

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive Mba

Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering