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Providing Executive Leadership and Change Management insight & expertise from conception to execution. Focused on identifying performance gaps and causes and developing solutions to elevate performance and accelerate results, moving both Leaders and the Organization to the next level.'Part-time' C-Level oversight and leadership to smaller organization's lacking these Full Time positions. Coaching and mentoring of Sr. Executives and enhanced performance of Executive Teams as well as Career Coaching & Counselling to Sr. Management & Executives.

Ontario, Canada

Led a full-scale strategic & commercial transformation to achieve a company-saving turnaround. Instilled a strong, focused, disciplined commercial culture, sales & marketing capabilities & analytics tools; rebranded and relaunched as a vibrant supplier of choice, introducing robust business process and vertical integration. Reversed a decade of sales decline, delivering multiple years of YoY revenue growth, sustainable growth trajectory and restoring market leadership.

Toronto, Canada Area

Recruited by the Board to revitalize this healthcare non-profit providing critical specialized laboratory testing to >400 hospitals across Canada. Instilled a new commercial culture, sales and marketing capabilities and challenged both company and industry convention to deliver breakthrough results. * Within 12 months, delivered the first annual surplus in a decade generating a 100% increase in revenue growth, 25% increase in gross margin and 180% growth in net income.

Toronto, Canada

Recruited to scale this specialty pharma/biotech commercialization start-up by leading sales & marketing JVs with off-shore and domestic life sciences players seeking Canadian healthcare commercialization expertise. Highlights: AstraZeneca JV to rebrand and re-launch legacy brands, reversing share erosion with 68% growth captured from market leading brands; launch of Med/Surg device to Hospital OR's, Surgery, Infectious Disease and Wound Care stakeholders. Genzyme JV (below), & driving growth of our own brand assets in Ophthalmology & Endocrinology. This string of successes led to increasing asset value 600% at acquisition by Valeant.

Greater Boston Area

In a Business Development framework, led the Genzyme/Theramed JV launch of Thyrogen which exceeded Genzyme sales targets by 300% and became Genzyme’s “model JV” globally. Based on success, Thymoglobulin sales & marketing and Rare Disease (Lysosomal Storage Disorders) strategic consultation was added to my responsibilities. During JV, I reported to Leadership at Genzyme Canada & Theramed Corporation with responsibilities to Genzyme 'America's' in Cambridge Mass

Toronto, Canada Area

Recruited to turnaround and restore growth to a medical marketing/communications agency that was losing share to aggressive competition. Rebranded & refreshed the service offering, opened 2 lucrative new lines of business and instilled a strong new sales & marketing culture & strategic capability that quickly took pitch:success ratio from 20% to 80%. Won Agency of Record status on AstraZeneca, & Eli Lilly brands to deliver 33% top-line growth in year 1, restoring market leader status. Contracted personally by AstraZeneca as Sr. Brand strategist for Seroquel and Atacand.

Toronto, Canada Area

Directed the market development and launch of GSK into cardiovascular medicine. Concurrently served as marketing lead and franchise manager for cardiovascular, metabolic and critical care emerging therapies (Stroke, Septic Shock); with full BU P&L responsibility. Served as Canadian lead on Global Franchise Development & Launch teams.BU creation & leadership of 2 JV’s (Boehringer-Ingleheim, Sanofi) including building, deploying and National Sales Management of a JV organization of >250 sales & marketing FTEs for launch and commercialization of key brands (Wellbutrin & Micardis) to primary care and specialist clinicians which we eventually grew from $0 to $300M. Seconded to a 1 year large-scale Business Process Re-engineering team tasked to re-design the Canadian pharmaceutical product launch process, to maximize launch impact, reduce time to peak sales, and reduce organizational resource stress of launches by leveraging technology, models and rigorous launch process.

Led the Information Technology Infrastructure team. Responsible for ITIL Implementation and support of large multi-platform (IBM, DEC, HP-UX, Microsoft, Oracle), 1,000+ user environment. Led corporate migrations to Microsoft Desktops, Back Office, and Open Systems (Unix/Linux). Responsibilities included ERP, Lab Information Systems, Telecomm, LAN&WAN, DRP, BCP, and developing technology architecture for highly automated & robotic manufacturing process. Set new bar for integrating IT Infrastructure team into Business Units to ensure IT strategy developed in alignment and to enable and propel BU strategic direction and goals.

Company providing premium technical IT training related primarily to Computer and Network Security. Primary clients included Ontario Ministry of Education , Shell oil

Independent IT consultant to Dofasco, where I held responsibility for all Infrastructure implementation, operations, 7x24 support and strategic direction for the Process Control & Automation Engineering Department. I was responsible for all Hardware, Software, Networking, Desktop, Vendor strategic recommendations to my Dofasco clients and both mission-critical production and development environments during the high-profile multi-year continuous caster steelmaking automation project.

Software specialist and client consultant for networking, office automation, selection and installation of hardware. Lead technical expert supporting sales team in pre-sales efforts. Post-sale, installed, implemented and trained staff on new system installations at client sites. Provided high customer contact, preventative maintenance visits, troubleshooting and on-call emergency response for mission-critical environments.