Andrew Evans has 35 years experience covering all areas of corporate operations, including service delivery, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance and legal. All of these skills have been necessary in his successful senior roles with emerging companies. His particular specialty is in product commercialization; discovering and implementing those final adjustments to a product that make it perfect for the intended customer, setting up a complete marketing program, establishing sales and distribution channels, and leading the drive to take a young company to maturity.With Bachelor degrees in Commerce and International Business Law and the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation, Andrew has the ability to strategically plan at the highest corporate level.In the past, Andrew headed a major corporate newswire, selling press release services to more than 1,000 public corporations and taking the company from startup to #2 in an incredibly competitive industry and facing incredible technical growth difficulties. Subsequently Andrew led a company in the solar industry, selling some 10,000 systems to municipal governments across North America and around the world, taking the company from startup to #1 in the industry. Previously, Andrew started his career as a stock broker, creating sophisticated options trading programs for executives in the Calgary oil patch and winning a new account contest over 800 other brokers. Andrew particularly enjoys working with emerging situations where he can make a solid contribution to all aspects of the company, from deep involvement in R&D to establishing lean manufacturing programs to directing sales and marketing and oversight of financial responsibilities. Married for 35 years, Andrew is a best selling published (fiction and nonfiction) and self published author and avid sailor.