• Ensured the company incorporates or integrates operational, economic, environmental, and social factors at all levels of decision making and reporting.• Managed a development team in the building of a unique and industry leading M&A software offering that streamlines the M&A process from due diligence, through acquisition to management of the business unit.• Worked with other members of the executive team on budgeting, forecasting and resource allocation programs.• Created a repeatable onboarding and integration process to ensure efficiency and alignment for newly acquired companies.• Worked closely with senior management team to create, implement and roll out plans for operational processes, internal infrastructures, reporting systems and company policies all designed to foster growth, profitably and efficiencies within the company. • Provided key assessments within the M&A due diligence process to ensure acquisition targets provide the right value and alignment with corporate goals.• Worked with other executive team members in creating, growing and building a world class, industry leading organization.• Partnered with the CFO to achieve favorable financial results with respect to sales, profitability, cash flow, mergers and acquisitions, systems, reporting and controls.• Created effective measurement tools to gauge the efficiency and effectiveness of internal and external processes.• Provided accurate and timely reports outlining the operational condition of the company.• Spearheaded the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes.• Worked with the CEO and CFO in the capital raise process.• Developed and managed IT architecture and infrastructure.• Developed and managed corporate solution stack.• Oversaw all IT Management and Technology Program Management• Implemented and managed key controls to ensure operational consistency across all areas of the organization.

Reporting to the President/Group CIO a transformational and principal thought leader with responsibility for the IT strategy and operations of a $3B warranty and insurance provider supporting over 1000 auto dealers across Canada and the US. Responsible for the overall strategic and operational aspects of current and future technologies of the business including: IT Operations, Software Development, IT Governance and Security, Innovation and Data Analytics. Working as both the CIO and CTO in this dynamic organization to realize both the strategy and technological architecture of the core platforms.• • Worked with president and other executive team members to develop a technology strategy that will support customer centric solutions that empower internal resources to ensure the organization continues its growth and industry leading position.• Implemented technology strategy that allow for flexible growth within current revenue streams as well as enabling new revenue streams. The primary strategy was to have integration capabilities at the core of all systems (internally developed and third party). This strategy allows for maximum flexibility while minimizing cost. This was imperative because the only thing that is consistent is change.• Ensured technology is both a core competency and a core enabler for the organization. With technology being part of all areas of an organization it was critical to ensure that everything was done with a business first approach. Start with the business problems you are trying to solve and find the right technical solutions that solve those problems. This strategy was taught to both business stakeholders and the IT team to ensure consistency of approach.• Managed a 45+ person IT team with a major focus on internal development for customer facing applications

Reporting to the Group CIO the role functioned as a key role for technology across the entire $2B organization. The role functioned as both the CTO and primary enterprise architect. Leading an international team of solution architects, developers and core application specialists the position was key to the organizations leveraging technology for its success and growth.• A leader working with various areas in the development and implementation of technology strategy for global IT.• Implemented global IT strategy including staffing and hardware planning for global offices.• Had management oversight for various cloud based solutions (Azure/AWS).• Designed, implemented and managed various web, desktop and iOS applications focused around catastrophe modelling and policy mapping to aid in risk management.• Designed and implemented the first of its kind terrorism insurance tracking application (iOS) to mitigate proximity risk in various locations.• Implemented and managed parallel database environment to reduce processing times for large scale analysis. The implementation of this technology reduced some key process times from 2 weeks down to less than 2 hours.• Implement and manage high performance parallel computing environment focused on catastrophe modelling.• Key member of the global IT integration team for acquisitions – Flagstone Reinsurance (Canada/Bermuda), Western World (USA).• Managed Catastrophe Modeling environments globally.• Managed enterprise/solution architects and enterprise application specialists. This team was critical in guiding the overall enterprise application architecture and was also key in leveraging core business applications.• Managed global capital modeling applications.• Developed global database strategy for use with internal and external applications.• Assisted with development of IT hardware and software strategy for primary datacenters in Toronto, London and Bermuda.

• Developed and implemented financial plan for IT in Bermuda and Canada.• Developed and implemented IT strategy for IT in Bermuda and Canada.• Assisted with global IT strategy including software and hardware planning for global offices.• Implemented set of policies and controls to meet all regulatory requirements.• Key member of the global IT integration team for acquisitions - Talbot (Lloyd’s UK), IPC Reinsurance (Bermuda).• Performed SOX implementation and continued ongoing testing.• Maintained catastrophe modeling environments for Validus globally.• Managed Bermuda IT team during local growth from 40 to 90 employees. • Managed IT hardware and software strategy for Bermuda and Canada.• Managed data center architecture.

• Developed IT financial strategy for Business solution division.• Developed road map for IT strategy for Business solutions division.• Developed solution architecture for various clients.• Developed hardware strategy for various clients.• Managed team of applications support, implementation and development resources. This includes hiring and compensation planning for IT staff.• Designed, implemented and managed the design, build and implementation of custom solutions.• Completed project analysis and design.• Managed various IT projects. • Managed infrastructure maintenance

Lead developer for software development including Lotus Notes, Visual Basic, HTML, Microsoft Access.