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Burlington, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

North America

Founded a business consulting firm that helps growth-stage startups scale via M&A, strategic partnerships, and creative acquisition funnels. Also assist clients with product-market-fit, sales strategies, creative acquisition funnels, story-telling, go-to-market, fundraising, corporate structure and cross-border expansion. Provide frequent pro-bono mentoring to early-stage startups.Key Clients:Charli AI - Collaborated with the company’s CEO and VP of Growth to transform Charli AI… Show more Founded a business consulting firm that helps growth-stage startups scale via M&A, strategic partnerships, and creative acquisition funnels. Also assist clients with product-market-fit, sales strategies, creative acquisition funnels, story-telling, go-to-market, fundraising, corporate structure and cross-border expansion. Provide frequent pro-bono mentoring to early-stage startups.Key Clients:Charli AI - Collaborated with the company’s CEO and VP of Growth to transform Charli AI into a data-centric organization. Built ways to track website visitors, campaign performance, product activation and engagement rates. Leveraged data insights to maximize marketing spend and product direction. Led Charli AI’s acquisition of Teamsync Bookmarks, a complementary company, from contract negotiation through due diligence and close; acquisition substantially increased the Charli AI user base. Integrated the acquired company with minimal disruptions, hired an offshore development team, and built automation to grow CRM. Moved on to building out the sales function, identified and validated product-market fit, and closed major deals with Colliers International and Cisco. Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The ecosystem for marketplace e-commerce, Carbon6 is simplifying success for online businesses around the world.

Greater Boston Area

Joined the company during its first year to drive business growth at a startup that applied big data best practices to performance marketing in the home services space. Responsible for identifying big opportunities that had been overlooked and executing a plan to create value. Hunted down creative data sets to supplement in house data and measured efficacy in terms of CPM, CPC, CPL, CPA.My efforts led to the creation of 3 internal lead-generation businesses: Renterkit (a rentals site… Show more Joined the company during its first year to drive business growth at a startup that applied big data best practices to performance marketing in the home services space. Responsible for identifying big opportunities that had been overlooked and executing a plan to create value. Hunted down creative data sets to supplement in house data and measured efficacy in terms of CPM, CPC, CPL, CPA.My efforts led to the creation of 3 internal lead-generation businesses: Renterkit (a rentals site featuring 500K+ listings), Door Champion (a site connecting landlords and property managers), and America’s Best House (a marketplace for home services). Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

Joined the executive team at Slyce, a retail-focused visual search company, following the company’s acquisition of HOVR.IT. Built out the sales function and managed the end-to-end sales process; formulated value proposition, prospected and presented to C-level executives, created and optimized pricing and business models, negotiated contracts, oversaw technical implementation, and managed accounts. Led Q&A testing, benchmarking, analytical reporting, and action plan… Show more Joined the executive team at Slyce, a retail-focused visual search company, following the company’s acquisition of HOVR.IT. Built out the sales function and managed the end-to-end sales process; formulated value proposition, prospected and presented to C-level executives, created and optimized pricing and business models, negotiated contracts, oversaw technical implementation, and managed accounts. Led Q&A testing, benchmarking, analytical reporting, and action plan development.Developed partnerships and sales processes that led to 10+ major retail contracts; closed deals with major retailers including Neiman Marcus, HSBC, Home Depot, Toys “R” Us, and Nordstrom.As a company Slyce was brought public on the TSX-V exchange in Canada in July 2014 and upwards of $35M has been raised to date. Show less

Toronto, Ontario

HOVR.IT uses image recognition technology to make online images clickable for product search. In 18 months turned an idea (on paper) into a disruptive functional company that was acquired [by Slyce]. Responsible for business development and funding arrangements for the company including government grants, angel/VC investments, and loans. Worked with universities to employ computer scientists (machine vision/learning). Co-facilitated an acquisition from which we later received patented… Show more HOVR.IT uses image recognition technology to make online images clickable for product search. In 18 months turned an idea (on paper) into a disruptive functional company that was acquired [by Slyce]. Responsible for business development and funding arrangements for the company including government grants, angel/VC investments, and loans. Worked with universities to employ computer scientists (machine vision/learning). Co-facilitated an acquisition from which we later received patented proprietary image recognition technology and an R&D Department.Managed an external sales team, prepared financial statements, tax returns, SR&ED claims, payroll, term sheets, cap tables, corporate governance and a variety of comprehensive contracts. Together with the co-founders I had regular input into the HOVR.IT product, use case generation, pricing/business model optimization and validation, product-market fit, and value proposition. From June-Nov 2013, was responsible for facilitation of the acquisition of HOVR.IT by Slyce.WE HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED!!!! Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

Boomurang is a location based mobile social network that allows the user to share, communicate, and interact with location specific information in real time without checking-in, friend’ing, or following. Responsible for use case generation, product-market fit, business development, financial statements, legal (contracts), SR&ED claims and all tax related issues. Boomurang was accepted into [IN]Cubes’ Technology Accelerator in Toronto Ontario for Q3 of 2012 which included comprehensive… Show more Boomurang is a location based mobile social network that allows the user to share, communicate, and interact with location specific information in real time without checking-in, friend’ing, or following. Responsible for use case generation, product-market fit, business development, financial statements, legal (contracts), SR&ED claims and all tax related issues. Boomurang was accepted into [IN]Cubes’ Technology Accelerator in Toronto Ontario for Q3 of 2012 which included comprehensive investor meetings, pitch competitions, term sheet preparation and negotiation. Show less

Mississauga Ontario

Conduct strategic negotiations and settlements of complex accident benefits claims. Full control of decisions on claims worth up to $100,000. Author professional correspondence to claimants and vendors and maintain positive relationships with policyholders, brokers, claimants, and lawyers. Communicate medical concepts to patients using layman’s terms to facilitate understanding. Conduct formal and informal training to junior staff (Led a 3 week training program for 4 new hires).

Cpa - Cma

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Hons), Life Science

Activities and Societies: McMaster Marauder Varsity Soccer