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Toronto, On, Ca

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

As Senior Vice President and Business Unit Leader of AGI Digital, I lead the strategic direction and operations of a high-growth agriculture technology division at Ag Growth International (AGI). With full P&L responsibility, I oversee the end-to-end functions of operations, manufacturing, engineering, product development, and customer service, ensuring the delivery of transformative digital solutions that drive global growth and innovation.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:• Strategic Leadership: Defined and executed AGI Digital's growth strategy, transforming the business through operational restructuring and market growth across North America, Brazil, and EMEA.• Ag Tech Innovation: Lead the development and product management of cutting-edge digital products, including IoT-enabled tools and advanced data solutions, that enhance agricultural efficiency and decision-making for customers worldwide.• P&L Management: Achieved record financial performance through disciplined cost management, operational efficiency, and revenue growth strategies, delivering record turnaround performance results. • Global Expansion: Spearheaded international market entry strategies, increasing AGI Digital’s footprint and revenue contribution from global operations.• Product Development: Directed cross-functional teams to accelerate product innovation cycles, successfully bringing market-leading solutions to commercialization.• Team Leadership: Fostered a culture of agility, collaboration, and innovation, achieving high team performance and aligning efforts with AGI’s strategic vision.• Mergers & Acquisition: Skilled in navigating complex M&A activities, seemlessly integrating to realize synergies, reduce costs and enhance value.I am passionate about advancing the agriculture industry through technology-driven innovation, positioning AGI Digital as a global leader in agriculture technology while driving sustainable growth and long-term value for shareholders.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

As Senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Experience, I led the global strategy for a multi-faceted organization, driving brand development, market expansion, and broad digital and technology transformation. In this executive role, I spearheaded initiatives that elevated the company’s global presence, built scalable marketing strategies, and aligned cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:• Global Strategy: Designed and executed a comprehensive marketing and customer experience strategy, aligning brand initiatives with corporate growth objectives across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.• Brand Development: Directed the evolution of the brand, repositioning it as an industry leader and leveraging its value proposition to build stronger customer loyalty and market differentiation.• Market Expansion: Drove entry into new international markets and strengthened presence in existing regions, resulting in increased market share and revenue growth.• Cross-Functional Leadership: Led diverse, high-performing teams across marketing, sales enablement, and customer experience functions, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.• Digital and Technology Transformation: Championed the integration of advanced digital marketing platforms, data-driven analytics, and customer engagement tools to enhance decision-making, streamline processes, and deliver measurable business impact.• Customer-Centric Innovation: Built customer experience strategies that optimized customer journeys, enhanced touchpoints, and consistently delivered industry-leading satisfaction rates.Through strategic leadership and a focus on innovation, I transformed marketing and customer experience into key drivers of growth and operational excellence. My contributions have resulted in significant revenue gains, a stronger global footprint, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Recruited as the global Head of Marketing (CMO) to lead the transformation of the marketing function into a modern, innovative, and customer-centric organization. Tasked with building a high-performing team and implementing cutting-edge strategies, I drove transformational marketing change across all channels, regions, and business divisions, delivering significant revenue growth and elevating the customer experience.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:• Marketing Innovation: Spearheaded the adoption of advanced MarTech solutions and data-driven marketing strategies, transforming marketing operations and unlocking new growth opportunities.• Revenue Growth: Developed and executed comprehensive marketing strategies that delivered measurable revenue increases, enhanced lead generation, and strengthened customer acquisition pipelines.• Customer Experience Leadership: Built a customer-first marketing organization focused on mapping and optimizing the customer journey to ensure seamless and impactful interactions across all touchpoints.• Core Marketing Capabilities: Directed key functions, including product marketing, branding, design, digital marketing, advertising, public relations, tradeshows, and product management, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with sales, product, and regional teams to deliver integrated marketing campaigns and commercialization strategies that accelerated growth and market share.• Team Leadership: Built and led a global marketing team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning while achieving outstanding team performance and engagement.Through visionary leadership and a focus on driving results, I established a scalable, modern marketing function that delivered transformational business outcomes and positioned the organization for sustained success.Specialties: Team Building, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Recruited to lead sales, customer service, marketing and corporate communications. Introduced and accomplished transformational change initiatives across all areas with deep and hands on leadership of sales performance, omni channel marketing, e-commerce and customer service management. Results:Delivered a 93% loyalty repurchase rate among subscriber sales, halting declines and growing subscription revenues at the TSO for the first time since 2010/11.Over 49,000 first-time customers acquisitions, growing under 35 audiences to more than 1/3 of total attendees.Introduced comprehensive customer personae profiling, loyalty analytics based on segmentation and frictionless multi-channel purchase pathway to propel online sales from 11% to over 80% in 3 seasons. Improved call centre operations, box office experience, and CSR team implementing a modern CX and CSR approach to sales and customer service. Restored overall audience health following years of declines as well as stabilized ticket revenues and increased average revenue per ticket. Achieved 63 sell-out performances in FY17, more than FY14, 15, and 16 combined.Specialties: Leadership, Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Negotiation, Business Development, Business strategy, executive management, risk management, P&L Management, sales management, customer service, project management, budgeting, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, revenue growth, distribution strategies, channel management.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Launched and grew a consulting practice specializing in sales strategies, revenue growth, commercialization, digital marketing, eCommerce, global branding, data and analytics, and customer experience journeys. Grew business and successfully developed a roster of clients in the US, Canada and the UK providing executive leadership, business strategy, business development, organizational design & optimization, online marketing, sales consulting and global expansion. Consulting expertise across Insurance, Financial Investments, Biotech, Energy, Ocean Sciences and with a range of start-ups.Additional Expertise: global branding, thought leadership, team leadership, organizational structure, business strategy, business development, operational teams, account management, go to market strategy, channel sales, direct sales, Digital Social Media Marketing. Mobile Location Marketing, Customer Experience (CX) Mapping, Marketing Automation, MarTech, B2B/B2C Marketing, Influencer Marketing, Content Marketing, Sales Planning & Forecasting, Public Relations, Brand Management, Market Research, Budgeting, P&L Management

Heerlen, Limburg, Nl

Joined Executive Team of Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd. - later purchased by DSM - as the global head of marketing to drive brand performance, innovation and create marketing and consult-sales solutions across all channels and regional business teams. Developed brand consistency for products sold in dozens of countries. Envisioned and spearheaded innovative strategies to maximize budget. Led the transformation of selling strategies, brand and digital marketing through creation of a broad based MarTech ecosystem and high performance team and people development. Developed strategy and structure for global marketing organization. Oversaw all digital marketing, social media marketing, SEO/SEM, public relations, strategic partnerships, direct marketing, website development, packaging, promotions, trade shows and consumer events. Instilled formalized go-to-market strategies & processes; wrote strategic plans. Exponentially grew business by providing added-value solutions to both customers and consumersHeld a key leadership role at executive level during the sale of ONC to DSM: responsibilities included liaison role with Deutsche Bank (NYC) and framing of all sale messaging (CIM, Management Presentation, Expert Sessions, etc.) for maximum enterprise valuation. Sale process resulted in successful transaction for $540 million CND.Specialties include: Leadership, Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Negotiation, Business Development

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited to lead the high profile Ford of Canada account – considered an extraordinary client partnership with the agency – playing a strong strategic role and business planning function to drive vehicle launch plans, multi-channel marketing plans and synergizing marketing operations. Used data analytics, research, buyer personae, segmentation and customer insights to stay ahead of customer purchasing patterns.Full P&L Management for complex cross functional and cross company delivery of marketing services. Provided c-level account management leadership and fuelled sustained sales success and continuous margin improvement without compromising customer satisfaction.Developed annual Ford Marcom plans; Negotiated Agency Scope-of Service and compensation agreements; Accountable for plan & annual marketing spend ($150 Million) across all vehicle lines. Team & organizational output recognized for excellence through numerous awards including a 2009 CASSIE; two back to back Global Marketing Excellence (GME) Awards; and a 2010 WPP Worldwide Partnership Award – the only team in the entire Y&R global network to do so.Specialties include:Leadership, Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Negotiation, Business Development, P&L Management, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Digital, Online Marketing, Social Media, Project Management, Sales, Account Management, Advertising, Branding, Brand Management,

New York, Ny, Us

Team leadership and account management for all marketing and advertising campaigns for Diageo, Guinness, Bayer, Mars/Effem accounts. Reporting to the CEO, served as executive team member with full P&L management responsibility. Developed new team dynamic and drove customer satisfaction excellence. Unified market research, consumer segmentation, target insights & product messaging into business-driving communications.Specialties include: Leadership, Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Negotiation, Business Development, P&L Management, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Digital, Online Marketing, Social Media, Project Management, Sales, Account Management, Advertising, Branding, Brand Management,

New York, Ny, Us

Team leadership and account management across multiple industries and clients. Developed and managed a variety of high performance teams for clients through a values-based management strategy that promotes new ideas, communication and hands on learning. Achieved sustained business development, budgeting, negotiation, marketing and business growth results.Industry experience includes: OTC Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Retail, and Technology.Specialties include: Leadership, Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Negotiation, Business Development, P&L Management, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Digital, Online Marketing, Social Media, Project Management, Sales, Account Management, Advertising, Branding, Brand Management,

Specialties include: Leadership, Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Negotiation, Business Development, P&L Management, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Digital, Online Marketing, Social Media, Project Management, Sales, Account Management, Advertising, Branding, Brand Management,

New York, Ny, Us

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

B.A. (Honours), Politics