Brandon Waselnuk Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

San Francisco, California, Us

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Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Dignified was an Agency, Studio, and Founder Collective where we built products and companies for others, from bootstrapped founders to publicly traded on the Fortune 50, as well as created our own products with top tier founders.We deployed over 30 products for our clients, helped 8 companies raise their next venture round, and built strong teams for our clients through hiring strategies. We stopped working on Dignified because the cofounders founded a new product and it went really well. The raised and went all in.Our vision was to create steadfast and enduring companies and their products.Relevant highlights:- Replatformed Wikileaf.com and created SaaS product lines to diversify revenue, prepare for public offering, and adapt to COVID restrictions by enabling all dispensaries to offer 'click & collect' online ordering to outdoor pickup;- Worked with Anheuser-Busch InBev to create a new Direct-to-Consumer platform leveraging Shopify that helped fuel first-responders during COVID and grow a newly acquired beverage line increase revenue by 680% during it's first quarter of operations within AB InBev;- Created multiple products for the Venture Capital, Cryptocurrency, and Venture Debt company CoVenture including; internal systems for capital calls, vintages, and more.Personal achievements:- Lead all GTM activity - full cycle prospect to closed/won every contract;- Lead all product work with customers, from low-fi wireframe drawings to production applications;- Created & ran Null to Zero podcast - sourcing interviewees, researching, recording, editing, publishing, and distributing the podcast as a GTM support tool for 15 episodes (1 season);- Lead all customer success activity.

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New York, Ny, Us

As the VP of Product and Venture Partner, Brandon worked on:Helping the founders in our Portfolio build their companies by;- Building their products from -1 to MVP and iterating with founders;- Teaching product management to portfolio companies;- Implementing a Product methodology and process internally at Portcos & CoVenture.Growing CoVenture by;- Finding great companies and investing in them;- Building our PortCos companies & teaching founders product;- Building product for CoVenture's Cryptocurrency index fund;- Building internal tools for CoVenture including LP management tooling, debt fund vintage tracking, capital calls, & business intelligence dashboarding, and tooling for deployment of capital.Accomplishments:- Helped bring 20 companies to market; through building the product, go-to-market, and iterating with customers & founders;- Hired and grew Canadian operations to 4 full time employees of Senior and above Engineering talent;- Helped portfolio companies hire 5 full time cofounder candidates to lead engineering in their respective companies;- Identified and brought hundreds of possible venture investments into CoVenture's dealflow;- Many companies we worked on have scaled to Series B+, exited, or are still operating today.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

As the Director of Product Strategy at Assent, a unicorn company and leading provider of compliance software for conflict minerals, anti-human trafficking, Brandon had these duties:- Product manager for Assent's Anti-Human Trafficking product that supports Fortune 500 companies in finding and stopping human slavery in their supply chains through the use of technology;- - Alongside a subject-matter expert Brandon created this product from -1 to MVP in market with key-accounts for design partnership including Everlane which he sole-sourced and got to closed/won;- Product manager for Assent University a specially design Learning Management System that trained >1,000 end-customers on running their compliance programs;- Defining and implementing the Product Management process internally;- Working on long-term product roadmap;- Built & operated customer and strategic advisory boards;- Sales support on key customer accounts;- Fundraising support for leadership team (helped them raise first outside capital & institutional round).

Responsible for Tattoo Hero (previously: tattoohero.com), OpenTable for Tattoos - where people found and booked their tattoos and artists ran their business with a cloud based ERP that powered tattoo shops globally.Was actively engaged in day to day business operations including; Product, development, hiring, management, marketing, business strategy, growth, raising capital, revenue generation, strategic partnerships, and everything else a CEO of a startup does - including mass caffeine injections and insomnia.Accomplishments included:- Growing new customers 19% week over week;- Received the Global Entrepreneurship Week award for Rising Star - a fast growing company in our region;- FounderFuel May 2014 graduates, Backed by Real Ventures - view our Demo Day presentation here (http://vimeo.com/95865851);- Hired 3 full time staff (in addition to my cofounders Minh and Steve) 2 Sr. developers (front and backend) and 1 GTM hire.

Focused on understanding the next generation of donors (age 18-35) and building rapport with them.Duties include: Fundraising, event planning, logistics, strategy, governance & succession planning, and campaign creation/management.This is a Volunteer Position.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Ran IBM's internal program for determining investment areas within the Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (BI&PA) portfolio, including Watson AI at the time.Ran the 'Decision Checkpoint' group 1 with GM of Business Intelligence & Predictive Analytics & 11 other leadership team members across business functions including sales, customer success, service & support, marketing, engineering, product, pricing & packaging, to vote on investment areas for business growth. Managing ~$1Bn in budget across BI&PA.Lead a team of 5 product people across BI&PA product lines as a portfolio product manager:- Help them manage their budget, team headcount, projects;- Develop product strategy & roadmap for their projects;- Create & implement go to market strategies and plays;- Preparing them for Decision Checkpoint meetings to present their business case for investment to the committee.Creating new internal communication structure and system, and supporting executive's communication (internal and external) for the General Manager of Software Group (overseeing all software at IBM):- Created the first ever Ask me anything (AMA) at IBM for the GM of Software group to connect with employees and their ideas; leading to impactful outcomes via projects surfaced in these talks.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Managed the creation & development of Design Thinking @ IBM. A large scale program to educate and deliver the best user experiences possible to our customers.Work included: creation of the program alongside design leadership, iteration as we ran developers through it, internal Marketing & communication, evangelism, education, speaking, strategy development, project management.Outcomes included: Trained >7,000 developers personally, Design Thinking became a global phenomenon (I was part of a large team to make this a reality), elevated design & craft within IBM scale.Built a Design Research Program to assist the User Experience team in gaining rapid access to end users for testing, empathy mapping, and other research needs. Helping 70 team members access hundreds of end users monthly. Including IBM's Design Thinking methodologies.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Involved in projects with Social Media, Research and Analytics, Radian6, Mobile Application marketing and development, Project Management, and many more hats to wear. Entrepreneurial driven team and environment.Helped manage the development, marketing, and launch of 6 mobile applications.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for helping to plan the HOPE event with focus on the Referees, working with 3 others on the Referee team towards making HOPE as successful as possible. Managed, as a team, over 50 Refs, Court Runners, and Data Entry volunteers. Worked with Corporate, Competitive, and Recreational teams.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Working in the IBM Business Analytics(BA) Office of Strategy on multiple projects that will help define the direction of the company. Projects include: Event Planning and Management, Working with Senior Level Customers (C-Level), and Working with IBM BA Executives. Collaborating with a global team.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

This was a Volunteer position. Worked with a client list to help drive membership to Volunteer Canada. Including calling multiple lapsed members and cold calling to secure new members to join with Volunteer Canada and their vision.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

Working in a team environment to ensure quality service for Metro's customers. Had a partial supervisory role, trained new hires, and worked closely with Management to give ideas on new display ideas and designs. Managed receiving and ordering.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Worked in the IBM Cognos Services Marketing team performing many tasks and working on multiple projects. Focused on Sales enablement, one major project was the development of a Wiki from -1 to MVP that would assist the sales team for years to come.Outcomes from the Wiki & adding search capabilities helped move revenue recognized deals up by an entire Quarter on average. This lead to IBM being able to recognized ~$100M in revenue a quarter earlier than expected.

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Certificate, Marketing

High School Diploma