Reconnecting the city to the wild. Wilderness Union runs over 100 unique wilderness adventures every year for our member community of young professionals and corporate teams wanting to get truly off-site.

Kanata Ventures is focused on investing in the most promising high-growth enterprise businesses from all over the world and helping them to access customers, grow their business and fundraise from top tier VCs in the North American market.

Global Director of Growth for Colliers Innovation, a global emerging technology and investment platform that complements our Strategic Investments and Technology teams as well as all business lines and platforms across Colliers. Colliers operates in over 67 countries with more than 18,000 professionals globally.

Brought Manulife's Goals Based Investing program from MVP to market release as Technical Product Owner

Product Manager at Manulife/John Hancock's innovation lab. - Responsible for new FinTech product strategy, leveraging internal AI and Blockchain teams- Scrum Master of an agile product team for a new investment product launch- Led product development, introducing lean startup, design thinking, human centred design to the wider organization- Authored strategy papers on the future of insurance

Directed strategy, recruitment and growth for this photography centered experiential marketing agency. Transformed Photostar from a Toronto photography company to a cross Canada activations agency with regional teams in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. Achieved average year on year growth of 400%, reduced temporary staff turnover and increased profitability in existing and new service offerings. Systematised the business for growth, instituting a CRM platform, operations systems and led… Show more Directed strategy, recruitment and growth for this photography centered experiential marketing agency. Transformed Photostar from a Toronto photography company to a cross Canada activations agency with regional teams in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. Achieved average year on year growth of 400%, reduced temporary staff turnover and increased profitability in existing and new service offerings. Systematised the business for growth, instituting a CRM platform, operations systems and led annual forecasting and budgeting. Show less

Sat on the board of directors at Camden Plus Credit Union drawing from experience as a former loan officer and running a microfinance operation in Vietnam.Helped introduce a simple banking product to our members, a payroll savings scheme andfundraising after local grants were withdrawn.

Volunteered as an approved Loan Officer in branch at Camden Plus Credit Union.

Established a microfinance pilot project in Hanoi. The pilot became Bloom Microventure's pioneering microfinance tour and laid the groundwork for a successful development project which continues to be run by local staff today.- Established key local and international partnerships- Recruited team of volunteer staff- Planned and managed operational logistics- Organised tours to the village in which we operated- Developed communications strategy, website and CMS.

Founder of this nationwide ball and school prom photography company. Grew the company from a dorm room into the UK's largest company of its kind with regional teams of highly trained local staff across the country.