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35 Mccleary Court, Unit 6, Concord, Ontario

Owner of Concord, Ontario - based store selling glass and hardware used by Glazing Professionals to install Glass Showers, Glass Railings and Commercial Doors.See www.glasslines.ca

Specialist role:-Support sales of Thomson's Fixed income products and data across Canada and the North-East USA-Develop Canadian fixed income content Consultant Role:-Define Thomson Financial's Global Fixed Income Portfolio Analytics product strategy-Define Thomson's Canadian Fixed Income Data and Product Strategy

Strategic Consulting, including business plan, product and sales development strategy and acquisitions required to create a range of new Fixed Income data, index and analytic products for the Canadian Capital Markets Industry

• Responsible for marketing, product development and management, public relations, alliance development, contract negotiation, financial and statistical modeling and analysis, sales and staff management. • Launched and marketed a new electronic institutional Fixed Income trading system in Canada

• Responsible for all aspects of Basis100’s fixed income business including market research, product conception and development, sales, marketing and staffing. Created and sold Basis100’s Fixed Income Trading system and related support services to a Consortium of Canadian Banks who subsequently formed CanDeal.ca to operate the system.

• Responsible for Algorithmics’ entire product suite, data strategy, alliance management and new data related e-business.• Gained in-depth knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management techniques, technology, standards, and issues.

• Responsible for building sales team and running national sales & marketing functions. • Investor’s Press published topical, educational books and monthly newsletters, and organized round-table conferences for US Investment Advisors, Treasury professionals and Portfolio Managers

• Responsible for Reuters’ global electronic transaction and data gathering strategies and capabilities. • Specified and supervised the development-to-specification of Reuters’ web-based fixed income electronic trading and automated pricing systems • Led the global launch of Reuters’ first web-based fixed income electronic trading and automated pricing systems,• Developed a global fixed income data gathering strategy that encompassed new product development, modifications to global data administration systems, identification and design of more efficient processes for sharing information across databases, and organization structure improvements required to improve data gathering staff effectiveness.• Developed multi-media sales and marketing collateral to support global sales of Reuters’ cross-asset analytic products.• Obtained Trading system Pilot accounts in 8 countries and fostered global sales of Reuters cross-asset analytic products.

• Created a 5-year business and product development strategy to establish Reuters as a force in the Canadian fixed income market• Conceived, specified, and supervised the development of a domestic real-time data production facility that took in raw data from multiple dealers, added content via calculations and other Reuters’ data and produced a competitive fixed income data service. • Specified and brought to market new Electronic Data Gathering tools. • Negotiated real-time and historical data supply contracts from Dealers and other suppliers • Grew fixed income business $10.0 million over 4 years by developing a domestic Canadian Capital Markets product and a Canadian Domestic News Service.• Hired and supervised specialist staff to support fixed income analytics and data system.• In sales role (1989-91) consistently met or exceeded net new sales quota while fulfilling responsibilities for generating new sales, managing account base and supervising direct staff.

• Excelled in responsibilities for profitable sales and trading of fixed income products, new business development and account management.• Assisted in the specification and testing of an electronic trading system for the Money Market Division• Negotiated purchase of phone, data and designed desktop systems• Developed Market Risk and Syndication Participation systems for Money and Capital Markets divisions

Bba, Business - Accounting/Finance

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