Chris J Gallant Email & Phone Number

Chatham-Kent, ON, CA

Canada, United States

• At The Coterie Group, we have developed a network of select groups and individuals who can provide customized and sophisticated funding solutions for your projects, worldwide. Our team offers an introduction to finance.
• luxury real estate
• large-scale affordable housing
• energy projects (including solar, wind, hydro, waste to energy)
• mining projects (for example gold, diamond and coal...the presence of minerals pre-mining must be well documented, ideally with a 43-101 report)
• infrastructure (for example hospitals, roads, railways, airports, schools, canals, supply of water, gas, electricity, telecommunications and others)

Ontario, Canada

• The Coterie Group specializes in helping businesses secure funding for development, expansion, or re-financing.
• Analyze applicant’s financial status, credit rating, and assets to evaluate loan feasibility
• Collaborate with banks, financial institutions, and private lenders to secure funding
• Work directly with business owners and organizations to evaluate their operations and reorganize them in order to meet lending criteria.
• In the past 2 years have placed over 40M in fundingPresent and past projectsNew Wave Homes, St. Thomas, ON - loan amount: $6 million. Thomas Canning, Maidstone, ON - loan amount: $19 million (2014-2015).Spruce.

Canada

• Developed a prepaid card program management company that created customized card programs designed to meet the specific needs of a variety of international clients.
• Established an international network of card providers from Panama, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Developed card programs that addressed payroll, sales forces, charitable donations, and the unbanked.

Switzerland, Brazil

• Recruited to launch domestic and international debit card programs, whichprimarily encompassed identifying a card issuer, overseeing softwaredevelopment, and negotiating the requisite partnership contracts.
• Initiated the program in just six months, well ahead of the original one-year time frame.
• Refocused the management team to orient the CEO on defining and advancing the organization's strategic direction.
• Realigned specific software development projects in Canada, Brazil, Russia, and Switzerland in accordance with the technical teams' core competencies.
• Established a project management framework that clarified the individual project strategy, the status of each project, the forecasted obstacles, and the timeline to achieve specified milestones.
• Oversaw core business and operations in Sao Paulo Brazil (22 programmers, 1 project manager), Belarus Russia (12 programmers, 1 project manager), and customer service staff in Toronto, ON, with Card One Plus, as well.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Conceptualized and developed a software application to administer and manage personal and financial data required for debit card programs. Directed engagements to customize and implement software for business clients.
• Capitalized on the emergence of stored value technology to initiate a stored value card program, CogicCard, for a religious organization with five million members at 10,000 centers around the nation.
• Guided the development of a software application that was one of the first in the industry to administer commission breakdowns at infinity levels deep.
• Incorporated functionality into the software that transmitted data received by the card processor and merged that with database information on the individual cardholder.
• Managed staff (32) related to customer service, marketing, and finance in Madison, WI, and oversaw a team in Atlanta, GA, project managers at Certegy in St-Petersburg, FL, and programming staff in Toronto, ON.►.

British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, USA

• Provided new strategic leadership as this global organization built brand as one of the first debitcard providers to operate in the digital currency arena.
• Defined the primary business strategy and outlined the critical paths necessary to achieve the key objectives, which were to forge partnerships with banks, debit card issuers, and software developers.
• Established the business’ first ever training program which involved the development of debit card seminars targeting service providers with client bases who could potentially utilize these cards.
• Coordinated the efforts of the Presidents of the Canadian, Australian and Bahamian divisions, as well as directly supervised a staff of 16 in the British Virgin Islands.

London, Canada Area

• Fully directed the launch of this organization, a software development firm that created one of Canada's first online shopping malls, as well as one of the first online city directories.
• Recruited the technical staff of programmers and web designers (31) and oversaw staff in three locations conducting technical production.
• Raised over $1 million in private sector funding.
• Ultimately positioned this business for lucrative acquisition by a publicly listed firm.

London, Canada Area

Insurance Sales: Les Prévoyant du Canada | Maritime Life ► Insurance sales in Germany for the Canadian Armed ForcesBroker: Laurentian Life ► Only Life Insurance broker for Laurentian Life west of the Quebec borderSales Manager: Imperial Life ► London Ontario branch, oversaw the monthly sales and training for 18 agentsReal Estate Sales: Canada Trust ►.

Ba(Hon), Business Administration And Management, General

Education record

Activities and Societies: Debate teamStudied electronics.

High School Diploma, General

Activities and Societies: First high school president, student council, events organizer.Student council, event organizer.