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California, United States

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Key role hired oversee to oversee key finance and operations team to help Canopy Planet.Org scale with its winning of the TED Audacious Project of over 60M. Hired to help transition supply chains for global fashion and packaging industries to more sustainable materials, protecting forests and climate.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Rejoined Indigo Books & Music Board to do my best to support an amazing company and to help turn the business around. Serving on the Audit Committee and as a General Board member.

Founded my own consulting firm targeting high-growth companies. Key activities included: Coaching and mentoring the CEO; Scaling the company to prepare it for financing; Advising on the build-out of the brand and the customer acquisition funnel, and acting as a Chief Digital Officer. Clients included:Simple Feast - Michelin-starred chefs started an at-home restaurant service that was founded in Copenhagen Joined the team in the US to help scale US direct-to-consumer, US retail, and overall global operations. The company delivers incredible plant-based meals and grocery products.M13 founder-in-residence, funded by Pepsi Co. Team built early-stage consumer goods and technology in the health and wellness space. Worked directly with other founders and the LA office.Vetted Pet Care - an at-home vet care service, funded by Foundation Capital. Vetted was a direct-to-consumer pet care service that delivered the vet to your home. Service was live in LA and SF.

Mont-Royal, Qc, Ca

DAVID’s TEA is a NASDAQ listed company that operates an omni-channel health and well-being brand across the web and 250 stores in North America with annual revenues of $240M in the tea & accessories category. Brought in to turnaround the brand and retail comp and to help the company become a major e-commerce player and build a wholesale business.• Doubled e-commerce growth from 15% to 30% with upside for 50%• Launched DAVIDs TEA 2.0 - a renovation concept - that delivered +15% comp and a payback < 1 year• Created wholesale deal and launched brand into Loblaws - Canada’s premier grocer• Re-built most of the management team including Product Development, Merchandising, HR & CFO• Re-structured the entire organization to save over $3.5M of SG&A to re-invest in e-commerce• Reduced inventory by 15% via an an open to buy system and a move to single DC facility• Put Amazon marketplace in place for 2018 launch• Stabilized US store base from -15% to 0% comp• Accelerated e-commerce business launching Salesforce Commerce Cloud within 1 year

Investing at the intersection of brands and technology. TrilogyGrowth is a $25M Series A fund focused on North American retail, wholesale & brand early stage companies.• Led the review of over 100+ deals to select 3 key portfolio companies for investment• One portfolio company was poppin.com, an omni-channel office products product brand• poppin.com has grown from under $10M when Trilogy invested to $70M in revenue today• iStore has grown from a handful of stores to 24 airport stores delivering > $30M of retail revenue• Board member for all businesses • 500% revenue growth over 5 year investment timeline

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Key executive P&L owner that drove turnaround of the company from post-merger +42M EBITDA to +73M+ EBITDA. Drove year-over-year comp sales for 7 years. Engagement at the board of directors’ level. Comprehensive understanding of the business and its drivers. A key executive team member who joined after the merger with a competitor to transform the customer experience & business processes resulting in world-leading performance gains.• EBITDA increase from $42M to $73M• Stock price increase from $5 to $15• Significant gains in net promoter score driven by customer satisfaction• Indigo is one of the respected consumer brands in CanadaLed the strategy to position the company to have 30%+ of its products as general merchandise (toys, gifts & paper), away from unprofitable risk categories of music, DVD & magazines• Launched & refined Indigo Kids experience in stores and online resulting in $50M of revenue• Doubled lifestyle gift & paper business from $50M to $100M through a 360-degree view • Drove investment in visual merchandising, fixtures and new processesKey digital & e-commerce executive helping the company manage its transition away from books• Early KOBO eBook supporter, serving on both Indigo & Kobo’s board of directors• Kobo eventually exited to Rakuten for more than $300M• Owned P&L for an $80M e-commerce business and its full integration into the consumer experienceImplemented key business processes to improve customer experience including:• Built merchandising process to create the monthly seasonal turnover store experience• Built open to buy, performance reporting, bi-weekly forecasting & annual planning• Multiple large IT projects including SAP install, warehouse upgrades, POS & CRM

Founder of SalesDriver, a provider of on-line business-to-business sales incentives to Fortune 500 customers. Grew business from 0 to US$10 million in revenue and achieved a run rate of $25M; sold firm in 3 years to Carlson Marketing Group in Minneapolis.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Profit responsibility for $100 million soap category. Led 4-member team to develop $10 million marketing plan.

Mba, Business

Hba - Honours Business Administraton, Business