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Toronto, Ontario, CA

Started April 15th, 2024.

Burnaby, British Columbia, CA

• Led the transformation/turn-around of SPUD firstly from restructuring and then into growth by focusing on continuously adding value for customers. Our Strategy:
• Increase relevance with the customer via modernized marketing & merchandising.
• Increase resonance with the customer using an omnichannel/one-team approach.
• Build trust with the customer through delivery and fulfillment excellence.
• Respect and perfect the experience for customers, vendors, and the team. Our Results:
• SPUD became Western Canada’s largest taste-forward, local, healthy foods and products ecommerce/in-store retailer and Canada's #1 venue to launch new and exciting healthy food products.

Burnaby, British Columbia, CA

Brought in to help FoodX reorganize. Promoted to CEO in December 2021.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

CEO and General Manager, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Staples Inc (USA). Responsible for~300 team members who collectively drove platform revenue from $400M to $1B in less than three years, reaching 65M active end consumers across several leading retail brands including Costco, FedEx Office, Walmart, Sam's Club, and Walgreens. Head of the leadership.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Leader responsible for the growth of PNI Platform implementations across the retail eCommerce market. Implementations included Costco, Walmart, Sam's Club, FedEx Office, Tesco, Hema, Samsung, Microsoft, Office Depot and several others. Drove licensing deals and renewals to lift platform revenue from <$100M to $400M over six years.Led platform innovation.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Key areas of responsibility included Investor Relations (TSX, OTCBB), co-development of new growth strategy, SEC/Regulatory/PR filings, M&A, and alignment of the leadership team with Board of DirectorsDrove $33M in shareholder value in Year 1.Developed and deployed a new strategy, expanding the platform into new larger markets in year 2.Tripled coverage to.

Winterthur, Zürich, CH

Terraview tackles climate change head-on by enabling pre-symptomatic insights into vineyard operations for the global wine trade. Based in Barcelona, our team and platform are enabling mid- and large-scale viticulture operations to gain early-stage insights into harvest yields, canopy cover management, smart irrigation management and imagery analysis.

Framingham, MA, US

Part of Staples Inc (USA) acquisition of PNI in July 2014. The core area of responsibilities has included BD for Staples US Retail Division (Print & Marketing Services, specifically). Currently, a member of CTO’s leadership team helping to drive technology strategy across 60K person organization.

Bristol, CT, US

A start-up later acquired by ESPN that developed IP automating consumer-oriented video/movie creation for broadcast on social media. Included scalable back-end content verification platform that scanned for integrity on the fly at scale.Grew sales from nil to $1.9M via licensing deals with multiple US retailers including Meijer and Disney Stores

A start-up that designed, developed and distributed platform that enabled consumers to easily create personalized retail products/gifts. Grew sales from $700K to $18M via licensing deals and distribution partnerships.

Victoria, BC, CA

Launched initial BD program, driving licensing deals via OEMs, etail, retail, and global publishing partnersA key driver of sales from <$1M to $34M.Launched first OEM bundles, adding more than 100M registered users.Opened first international reseller relationships, lead to 34% of total sales.Became 3th largest shareware application in the world (circa 2003).

Authentic Leadership Development Program, Organizational Leadership

Executive Education, Finance And Management

Certificate, Artificial Intelligence

High Potential Leadership Program, Organizational Leadership

Diploma, Management Of Technology

Ba, Political Science And Government, Economics