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Markham, Ontario, Canada

Zurich, Switzerland

Providing strategic and operational advice to the Board and CEO for this Swiss start-up in high-end wellness and health supplements. The company serves multiple markets around the globe through e-commerce and distributor channels. Advice provided includes:• Strategic planning, product portfolio planning, North American expansion, investor pitch presentations and preparation, global distribution agreement negotiation, channel partner acquisition, and general operating assistance. Results include a GCC states distribution partner agreement as well as a key European e-commerce partner going live and exceeding forecasts

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Overall and P&L responsibility for a leading North American e-commerce as well as wholesaler, distributor and manufacturer of natural and certified organic raw materials to the cosmetics, lifestyle, and health and beauty sectors. Direct report responsibilities include Sales, Marketing, Warehousing/Distribution, Material Management, Manufacturing, Compliance, HR, IT and Customer Service. Developed and executed strategies, delivered operational improvements across the business, and drove high growth and profitability as well as a spearheaded all company efforts in the successful sale of the business to a Private Equity Fund.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Performed interim COO and other executive roles in leading various company performance turn around efforts and mission critical initiatives for organizations across numerous industry sectors. Led initiatives to transform organizational capability and drastically improve results such as strategy development/recalibration, operational planning and execution, management process implementations, KPI/data analytics use, fast-track organizational assessments, robust financial analysis and management, fast paced value creation and business development, team building/restructuring, contract negotiations/re-negotiations as well as day-to-day management.

Toronto, Canada

Key member of the senior leadership team that transformed, built, and led a 7 person professional services and customer support team that provided exceptional project delivery, customer service, and pre-sales support, initiated a successful Global Channel Partner program and provided direct involvement in various sales efforts greatly contributing to revenue growth and a successful sale of the business to Microsoft.

Nuechatel, Switzerland

Promoted to VP of Supply Chain and tasked with turning around a poorly performing department plagued by low on-time delivery and high cost of transportation. Developed and executed global Supply Chain strategy that turned department into a top performer. Overall accountability for a $40M+ supply chain budget and a 30 person global supply chain team across 3 continents. The team supported 100+ products and 20k annual units, over 30 suppliers, 2 Asian manufacturing locations, 4 multi-continent warehouses/distribution centres, and over 100 customer locations located in over 20 countries. Ultimately, the team delivered $600k+ to the bottom line from freight cost reduction while improving stock availability by 35 percent (overall 95 percent) and reducing inventory by 30 percent.

Neuchatel, Switzerland

In addition to the International Business Management role, promoted to spear-head start-up efforts for a global HQ and European operation and given interim COO responsibility for the European operations including International Sales and Customer Service, Local Marketing and Local Supply Chain (Material Management). Direct reports included International Sales Manager, European Supply Chain Manager, Customer Service Manager and European HR Manager.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hired and given full authority to drastically improve under-performing international business results encompassing sales, customer service, and marketing in all markets outside of North America. Increased sales from $3M to $12M in three years by opening new markets, replacing weaker distributors with more effective partners, and developing and executing a comprehensive distributor/partner program geared to drive sales and service.

Belgrade, Serbia

• Responsible for overall performance of the Oracle and IBM partner company including a team of 70 people that successfully developed and delivered ERP and large turnkey systems delivering 22% YoY top line growth• Led efforts to successfully retain key workforce personnel and customers in a very difficult economic and political environment• Participated in product and technology direction planning for ERP product(s), development tools and database platforms

Torrence, California

• Designed and developed a complete strategic planning and organizational balanced dashboard score card performance measurement system for a global manufacturer of airplanes as well as a large multi-state home care company• Performed extensive organizational assessments and business process improvement projects across various industries • Extensive management and business development responsibility including sales calls and executive relationship development, proposal creation, and marketing presentations resulting in strong company growth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Various projects in the areas of strategy development, operations planning, metrics systems, and IT system selections

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Operations, Strategy

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Entrepreneur Association, Marketing Association, Center for Technology Management, Operations.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering & Management Science