Green Slate Solutions Ltd. is in the agricultural marketplace to improve the global food chain and help feed an expanding population with a food supply that is safe, healthy and nutritious. The main product, GroAloe (Aloe420), is soil amendment that helps improve soil conditions and makes things easier to grow. Where GroAloe differs is that it does not have harmful chemicals, is 100% organic, and helps promote chelation in the soil, thus increasing the nutrients available to whatever is planted.

Bridging your enterprise to the next level.Specializing in change management; strategic planning and facilittion; company turnarounds; business plan development for revitalizing an enterprise or to raise investment funding; helping companies to start or accelerate their Lean journey.Participate on both Boards of Directors and Avisory Boards of public and private companies as well as start-ups and non-profits.Assistance with the implementation of Lean Manufacturing with a focus on continuous improvement and eliminating waste from an enterprise. Lean will reduce your enterprise’s carbon footprint and help offset the carbon tax costs being paid in British Columbia without the large investment in new technologies. Assistance in this area can range from explaining what a Lean journey is all about, re-energizing your lean journey, doing a Lean assessment of your enterprise to a full day hands-on simulation course that demonstrates the tools of Lean and the dramatic effect it can have on an enterprises bottom line.

There are currently two types of Okanagan Peer Mentoring Groups (OPMG), one for executives and the other for operational managers. Each group consists of individuals from non-competing companies that come together once per month to help each other to continually improve their management skills and the efficiencies and profitability of their companies.The OPMG allows you to spend time on your business by pulling away for just half a day a month and discussing issues with peers that are all there to help and support each other and learn from others in different businesses. It is all about helping each other to be the best that you can be and improve your company’s operations with a focus on increasing profitability.

Decisive Dividend Corporation came into being from a simple idea – acquire fundamentally strong companies, hold them for the long term and pay regular dividends to our shareholders.Armed with that concept, Decisive Dividend Corporation was formed with a mandate to acquire a growing stable of well established companies with strong predictable cash flow and to provide regular and growing dividend payments to shareholders.

Responsible for the British Columbia Division of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME-BC) with the focus on policy and advocacy and raising the profile of the manufacturing and exporting sector with both the provincial government and the public. Also responsible for membership and business development, which included the development of new programs, events and obtaining funded projects.

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In this position Mr. Jeffrey was focused on taking this manufacturing company to be the world leader in its expertise. With this objective as the goal, the Company changed its culture to become a Lean Enterprise, spent twice both the national and provincial averages on employee skills level training, used some of the highest technology in its sector of operations, and teamed with Okanagan College and both the University of British Columbia campuses on research and development projects. Under Mr. Jeffrey’s guidance the Company reduced work-in-process from 1,175 parts to 67, reduced excessive travel by 80%, reduced raw material inventories by 61%, freed up 36% of plant space for additional work, and, most importantly, reduced order to delivery time from 22 days to 12 hours and between 4 to 6 hours on one value stream production line. The Company also became the industry leader in North America in resin transfer (closed) moulding, volume production. In three years productivity increased by 28% on the open mould value stream, while closed moulding saw a productivity increase of 46% over the same period. In March 2007, FormaShape was awarded “Innovative Organization of the Year” by the Okanagan Science & Technology Council recognizing a leading organization that has demonstrated innovation, leadership, sound business practices and community involvement in the research, development and/or application of science and technology. In October 2008 FormaShape won two more awards. One was the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce’s Business Excellence Award for Big Business of the Year, and the second was the Canadian Innovation Award for Productivity Enhancement given at the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters’ annual 2008 Innovation Awards.

Peter was born and educated in England where he obtained his Chartered Accountancy degree (FCA). He worked in Africa with Coopers & Lybrand and the Bahamas with First City Bank of New York before settling in Vancouver in 1974.Peter has a broad range of executive management experience having held senior management positions with various companies. Prior to joining FormaShape as President in Kelowna, he has held various positions with start up companies including Legend Power Inc., he was President & CEO of Radical Elastomers Inc. where, in eight months he reduced monthly operating expenses by 50% and simultaneously increased productivity by 60%. Prior to this, Peter was President & CEO of Avcorp Industries, a Canadian aerospace manufacturing company. In five years, he achieved a major turnaround of this company, increasing revenues by 225% to $90 million, profits by 190%, and capitalization by 549%. The company employed 800 people in 5 divisions located in British Columbia and Quebec. During his tenure at Avcorp, Peter introduced several advanced innovations, including anthropomorphic robotics for assembly production, a first in North America. He was responsible for establishing the first facility purpose-built for flexible integrated cellular manufacturing in British Columbia and he made Avcorp the first Canadian company in its industry to use high-speed, flexible manufacturing cells to produce components.Upon resigning from Avcorp Industries in 1999, Peter went on to operate his own company providing management services specializing in start-ups, high-tech, and financing at the seed, venture and major exchange levels.