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Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

With a 70% market share worldwide, Sherpa is the leading provider of mobile application solutions and indoor geolocation technologies for the events and exhibitions industry (www.sherpasolutions.com).● Reporting to the President with a cross-functional mandate to oversee daily operations and establish business, infrastructure, solution offering and technology licensing opportunities to improve global competitiveness in a 27-employee company. ● Managing and developing major reseller accounts worldwide and one-off events to grow client base and drive revenues across all product lines. ● Qualifying and managing relationships with vendors and maintaining an extensive national and international network of influential players in the tradeshow and RFID industries.ACHIEVEMENTS: ► Developed new distribution channels for mobile applications and technologies in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico to achieve faster, smoother foreign market penetrations to drive market dominance in the event industry worldwide ► Created new revenue generating sponsorship opportunities for mobile applications (i.e. push notifications, advertisement banners and QR code-based incentives) ______________________________

Montreal, Qc | Toronto, On | Las Vegas, Nv

With 120 employees serving 300 events internationally each year, Showcare Event Solutions is North America’s leading provider of integrated event data solutions including online registration, membership data management, ecommerce, lead retrieval, social media and innovative technological solutions (www.showcare.com).● Reported to the President and led the integration, streamlining, standardization and optimization of business processes and best practices in a newly-merged organization with P&L responsibility.● Instrumental in shaping the organization by making the majority of the technology decisions on solutions that delivered 100% of revenue ($10M to $12M) and became the foundation of the company's current leadership status.● Directed international service delivery across 10 solutions and a portfolio of 200 clients including associations, trade shows, conventions, exhibitors, pharmaceutical companies and Fortune 500s.● Oversaw 5 managers and a multidisciplinary team of no less than 65 employees.● Led the design, implementation and marketing of new QR code technology-based, value-added services for event exhibitors and attendees.● Sourced and managed vendors and negotiated contracts up to $385K.● Provided strategic and active support to shareholders during the merger, restructuring and rebranding of the company’s assets. ACHIEVEMENTS: ► Grew departmental revenues by a minimum of 10% annually ► Reduced overall operational costs by 17% ($600K) from 2009 to 2011 ► Delivered $400K/year in cost-savings by eliminating redundancies and reducing payroll while ensuring the continuous quality and integrity of operations ► Saved the company’s restructuring efforts by successfully negotiating with main creditors and spearheading/managing an ambitious plan to regain control of data servers (most valuable asset) hosted by a hostile creditor______________________________

Montreal, Qc | Toronto, On | Las Vegas, Nv

(See above company overview)● Oversaw the provision of international services and account relationships to 100 clients across 4 service lines.● Planned and led daily operations of the Montreal office and managed 10 employees and project teams up to 20 persons.ACHIEVEMENTS: ► Planned and oversaw the delivery of solutions that generated $1.7M to $2.5M annually (50% of total business) ► Instrumental in defining the company’s offering and competitive position by being the first to identify the need for the RFID tracking service and subsequently leading the development of the technology ► Reengineered on-site service delivery to eliminate 25% of man hours ► Streamlined IT department positions by 50% while maintaining service levels ► Reducing freight costs by 50% ► Consistently exceeded all targets and earned a promotion to VP Operations role after 18 months______________________________

Montreal, Qc | Washington, Dc

With 70 employees, Laser Registration offered white-glove event data management and event registration services for more than 20 years before being combined with Showcare AR Systems and rebranded as Showcare Event Solutions Inc.● Directed all aspects of the Exhibitor Sales department with P&L repsonsibility.● Led the sales force, daily operations and product management, recruiting, training, administration and the marketing of services primarily targeting the US medical and pharmaceutical conference market.● Actively managed 40-50 key accounts.● Drove revenues and technology development as a member of the Technology Committee with a mandate to develop two generations of electronic badge scanners that generated $3M+ in revenues.ACHIEVEMENTS: ► Rebuilt the Exhibitor Sales department from the ground up ► Increased annual sales from $2.1M to $3.5M ► Implemented new customer services best practices and performance benchmarks ► Created and implemented a patented, cutting-edge RFID room access verification system that generated $2M+ in revenues and gave the company an exclusive competitive advantage in the North American market ► Reengineered business processes to reduce costs by approximately $460K ► Earned a promotion to Director of Operations in newly-formed organization (Showcare Event Solutions). ______________________________

Montreal, Qc | Washington, Dc

(See above company overview)● Led departmental operations, sales, telemarketing, hiring, training, on-site service delivery, logistics, CRM and 5 staff.ACHIEVEMENTS: ► Rebuilt the Exhibitor Sales team from scratch ► Planned/led sales and customer support operations, strategies and processes that grew sales from $1.2M to $2.1M and triggered the highest growth period in company history______________________________ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Montreal, Qc

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