Corey Velan Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

- Pitched our first product (FixMeStick) on CBC's Dragons' Den in 2014 and got offers from all 5 Dragons- Pitched our second product (StartMeStick) on CBC's Dragons' Den in 2020 and got offers from all 5 Dragons again- Successfully crowdfunded FixMeStick for Mac on Kickstarter- 9th fastest growing company in Canada in 2017 (PROFIT 500 ranking)- 15th fastest growing technology company in Canada in 2017 (Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking)- 33rd fastest growing company in Canada in 2016 (PROFIT 500 ranking)- Sold over 1.5 million FixMeSticks and StartMeSticks worldwide in stores like Best Buy, Walmart, and Staples and TV shopping channels like HSN, QVC, and TSC

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Shipped the platform and product projects fundamental to Radialpoint’s business transformation. Supported a series of company restructures.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Led a team of between 30-50 developers building desktop security, online backup, service delivery platform, and premium care products. Responsible for architecture, design, and implementation as well as recruiting and managing the development team.Part of the management team that closed a $98 million investment in 2008 from TA Associates, one of the top US private equity firms.Helped integrate two company acquisitions.Promoted to Lead Architect of the Engineering team.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Joined as co-founder of a new team to build a new business unit at the core of Radialpoint’s expansion path. Created the architecture for the product, hired 12 talented individuals for the team, and shipped the first version of the next-generation service delivery platform. Secured first customer ship deployments at Verizon and BellSouth. Promoted to Director of Development.

Product Manager and Developer, Repro - Application Recorder for Software, July 2003 – April 2004Co-conceived and co-developed the product and its vision; organized industry and customer contacts to provide feedback and support; gathered competitive intelligence; developed marketing strategy; performed customer demonstrations at key development milestones. Recruited to join Radialpoint to build a new business unit.Product Manager and Developer, Enterprise Marketing Platform, March 2002 – July 2003Co-lead contract development project to develop an enterprise quotation system to support over $1 billion/year in quotations. Deployed solution on schedule. Technologies: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, XPATH, and XSLT.

Implemented (SQL, PL/SQL, java, JDBC) fine grained access control system for an Oracle 9i database.Dev lead for co-development with IBM of an XML-based language for expressing data handling policies for customer information.Promoted to Freedom Engineering Manager (managing approximately 40 engineers), declined and left to co-found startup.

Led team of 12 developers through the Beta cycle and shipment of the client component of Freedom 2.0, a cross-platform (win95/98/ME/2K/Linux) client/server Internet privacy solution.

Designed and developed (C++, IPC) client-side web form filler for IE on win9x/ME/2K.Designed and developed (C++, MFC) diagnostic tool for finding and solving problems with the Beta release of Freedom 1.0.Coded the client side (C++, STL) of the Freedom system’s secure-private mail.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bsc, Applied Math

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