Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of success in the retail, internet, technology and wholesale industries. Strong professional skilled in building and fixing organizations, creating harmonized culture, mentoring the team, developing systems and processes, building a metrics driven organization, and driving growth and prosperity.
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be opening my first of many Wendy's restaurants in Downtown Montreal in March 2025. Located at Ste Catherine St. & St. Mathieu and servicing the downtown core and Concordia neighborhood, we are excited to be a part of the Wendy's expansion across Quebec. At Wendy's, we're all about serving up fresh food, even if it means going the extra mile.
Manteaux Manteaux owns and operates 35 retail stores in Quebec and Ontario. We specialize in coats and ladies fashions.
W.I.T. is a Montreal-based, privately funded startup that has re-invented the way people search by giving users a non-biased approach to accessing recommendations from their friends on the web and mobile. What Is the Industry Saying? According to Techcrunch, "One of our products is one of the most ambitious players in the social search market right now." Mashable cited, "Wajam has created a more useful social search experience for Google than Google could." Wajam continues to make strides in offering the most comprehensive and easiest social search by growing its team of developers as it continues to index millions of pieces of content each day. • Successfully sold the company to an international strategic partner. • Developed and implemented turnaround initiative to bring the company back to profitability. • Broadened the company’s portfolio of revenue generating products. • Expanded distribution to South America, Central America, Russia, Australia and the Far east • Created new brands with Millions of units distributed. • Navigated organization and products successfully through new Microsoft and Google requirements and international government regulations. • Renegotiated terms with partners including Yahoo! And Ebay. • Streamlined the reporting process and implemented best practices in email alert notifications. • Optimized profitability through cost cutting initiative. • Eliminative unprofitable business units. • Prepared the company for acquisition. • Managed team across 3 continents.
Beyond the Rack is a private shopping club for men and women who want designer brands at prices up to 70% off retail. We work with major brands to hold limited-time sales that are open exclusively to our members. Each sale starts at 11:00 and typically lasts only 50 hours. After the sales ends the merchandise is no longer available. Members are notified by email in advance of each upcoming sale according to their preferences. • Created organisation from a business plan to $160M in sales in 7 years. • Built out marketplace with over 14 million members and over 5,000 brand partners. • Assembled 500 member team in Canada, U.S., Philippines, & India. • Hired key staff, developed processes, and systems for all aspects of the organization. • Built merchandising and marketing Departments across 3 cities. • Developed “best of class” production environment to photograph, produce and upload over 2,000 SKUs daily. • Designed warehouse process to ship up to 30,000 packages daily across 3 North American warehouses. Optimized the shipping routes, and cross border logistics. • Established international Customer Service team handling up to 5,000 contacts daily. • Assembled 90 person technology team across 4 countries. • Recruited and integrated C level candidates for continued growth to Enterprise version of BTR. • Implemented and managed various versions of Website, Marketing, Email, Production platforms from small business version to Enterprise version. • Managed Business Intelligence and built out systems, KPIs and metrics package. • Created private label direct imports program. • Raised over $80 Million in equity and debt financing over 8 rounds. • Built business valued at over $185 Million in 2015. • Ranked by Internet Retailer as North America’s fastest-growing e-tailer in 2011. • Listed by Profit Magazine as the 3rd fastest growing company in Canada in 2012. • Winner of 2014 Canadian Brand of the year.
Gosh Marketing is a retail marketing company that works with major retailers to develop and source product lines that meet their specific market needs in both Canada and the United States. Merchandise categories include Gift Bags & Accessories, Gift Items, Toys, Souvenir, Household & Consumer Electronics Accessories.