Mike B.

Partner Performance Marketing | Senior Growth Strategist | Instructor @McMaster Marketing📊

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Senior growth marketing leader with a decade across financial services, travel, CPG, tech, and automotive. I lead growth functions that turn paid activity into business outcomes, building the measurement, martech, and team capability that sustain them. My combination of senior strategy and hands-on platform work is rarer than it should be at this level. I've kept both. Most recently: cut CPA 44% in three months at Shift Auto Group while expanding the team's remit from shallow acquisition-only paid media into full-funnel. Before that, 25% YoY at EF Educational Tours alongside a full martech and analytics rebuild. Now at Microsoft on the partner marketing side. I also teach Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategy at McMaster in the evenings and weekends, sharing my passion for this industry with up-and-coming digital marketers across degree and con-ed students.

Experience

  • Ast. Partner Marketing Manager at Microsoft
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • Instructor - Digital Marketing at McMaster University
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    Part-time instructor teaching Marketing Analytics and Digital Data Management. I focus on practical, industry-relevant skills: GA4, attribution, measurement frameworks, and marketing technology implementation. I teach in the evenings alongside my primary work in growth and performance marketing.

  • Digital Marketing Consultant at MBDC
    Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Digital marketing consultant services for mid-market orgs who need clarity in their marketing.

  • Senior Manager, Performance Marketing at Shift Auto Group
    Oct 2025 - Feb 2026 · 5 mos

  • Manager, Growth Marketing at EF Educational Tours Canada
    Nov 2023 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Led growth strategy across paid media, web, and content for a high-consideration travel brand. Managed two direct reports, supervised a full website redesign, redeveloped martech stack across analytics and CRM, and built leadership reporting from scratch. Reduced CPA 25% YoY.