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Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for revenue generation and growth strategies for SaaS and BPO opportunities and for enabling client satisfaction and growth across Canada, the Caribbean and LATAM. My team focuses on providing insights to asset managers to develop solutions that support their growth and enhance their business and operational effectiveness. Our approach is to challenge the status quo and to collaborate to uncover opportunities for new solutions that drive both growth and operational excellence.IFDS is one of the largest global providers of investor and distribution services for investment funds supporting Mutual Funds, Pooled Funds, Alternative Funds and many other categories of ‘unitized’ fund solutions. Our proprietary investor record keeping software, iFast™, is offer as a SaaS model or as a bundled solution combined with partially or fully outsourced fund operations. IFDS deploys SS&C’s Chorus™ enterprise wide to deliver exceptional experiences for both customers and employees. Chorus™ enables the scale across IFDS global teams with full control and governance.IFDS serves more than 250 Fund Managers around the globe through our offices in Canada, Ireland and Luxembourg from where support clients across Europe, in Canada, APAC, the Caribbean and South America.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Executive leader for business development and global new client on-boarding in Canada, LATAM, Europe as well as major APAC conversions. Responsible for leading prospective clients through the discovery, solutions and implementation process of the successful migration of data, technology and services to IFDS. Leading and influencing teams both within IFDS and with clients to drive significant change and digital transformation of existing operating models. A member of the IFDS Executive Committee providing leadership and direction for IFDS business growth, operational effectiveness and Information Technology development.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Sales leadership for IFDS Canada; Investment Management Solutions, Banking Services & Business Outsourcing. Executive leader for global IFDS new client on-boarding. and a member of the IFDS Executive Committee providing leadership and direction for IFDS Canada business, operations and IT.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Leading the development of a new line of business focused on providing operations and technology outsource solutions for Canadian Bank's/Trust's/CU's. Lead B2B sales in the Canadian Banking sector and drove change and adoption of digital transformation.

I am honored to serve on the the inaugural board of PACU helping the leaders and community guide a successful submission to the FSRA ensuring the Pan African Credit Union becomes operational.

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg , Lu

Lead teams in Ireland and Luxembourg that successfully execute a wide range of client conversions and major onboarding programs. Strong focus on client management and influence of partners at the client side and internally. Overall program governance leading strong implementation teams across multiple SaaS migration projects.

Working with financial companies to bring focus to senior management teams turning ideas into results. By applying a deep understanding of lending, investment and deposit products and operations, My focus was to drive strategic projects to completion.Canadian Life Co - Led a project to develop a strategic business case for retail banking products and operations. Created complete business case, operations model and analysed wide range of banking technology solutions.Major Canadian Bank – Researched and analysed direct lending niche products and market, providing full market and competitor financial analysis.Niche Mortgage lender – Developed product definitions and credit policy for an Alt-A mortgage business model.Consumer Finance Co – Advised ownership on sources of liquidity and complete a funding transaction with a Canadian Bank for alternate funding conduit for this consumer finance line of business.Start up BPO – Developed business case, financial models and sales plans in conjunction with core team and major Canadian IT / BPO group.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Reported to the CEO and had full P & L accountability for all product lines in addition to responsibility for all products, operations, underwriting, call centres and PMO/Business Process Management. This was role had the mandate to drive the growth a this start up virtual bank. We went from 15 staff to a team of over 500, grew assets, systems, process's and clients and learned a lot along the way.AGF Trust was an “on balance sheet” Virtual Bank, fully web based and digital, a provider of retail banking products; GIC's & deposit accounts, investment lending, sub-prime mortgages and Home Equity Lines of Credit with a distribution model that leverages independent financial distributors across Canada.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Business leader for all small business products and services, including; Deposit accounts and Cash Management, Loans and Lines of Credit, Commercial Mortgages, Electronic Access products and services. Significant business scope with 450,000 customers and over 600,000 active customer accounts; deposit portfolio of $10 billion and Credit portfolio of $3.9 billion.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Profit contribution of all deposit product lines (Chequing and Cash Management, electronic banking)Product development and enhancements, business volumes, margins, channel delivery issuesDevelopment of segmentation strategies and annual marketing plansDevelop and execute successful customer retention plans

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Developed and launched a 'start up' business line at CT. I launched a national Commercial Mortgage program delivered through 500 retail branches and with a dedicated sales force.Responsibilities: Profit contribution of Commercial Mortgage businessProduct development and enhancements, business volumes, margins, channel delivery issuesDevelop and execute successful customer acquisition and retention plans

Masters Of Business Administration, Financial Services

Cim, Certified Investment Manager

Diploma, Finance And Accounting