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Accomplished senior executive and advisor possessing over twenty-five years of leadership, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience across sectors, including financial services and fintech innovations, management consulting, and consumer and products. Executive Leader, adept at building trust and positive and productive relationships with stakeholders at all levels and leading highly productive teams. High-profile speaker on open banking, innovations, fintech development and integrations, and partnerships. Leverage expertise in financial services innovation and fintech, management consulting, and consumer products. STRENGTHS & EXPERTISE Financial Services & Fintech | Strategy Planning & Execution | Business Transformation | Client Relationship Management | Innovation Leadership | Team Development & Leadership | Management Consulting Regulatory Expert | Strategic Partnerships | Stakeholder Management | Mergers & Acquisitions Change Management | Business Planning | Digital Strategy | Public Speaking

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Seasoned operations executive and accomplished generalist with 20+ years in business leadership. I add value where legacy industries and the digital economy intersect, with particular experience in scaling high-growth SaaS companies. I have a deep background in back-office processes, eCommerce, revenue operations, M&A integrations and solving gnarly problems. My advantage is my ability to maintain a big-picture view of the business while driving critical results. I am always seeking to support businesses of all sizes through mentorship, advising and consulting opportunities. If you are interesting in working with me, please reach out!

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Co-founder @ Tomorrow, my product studio, building Boom (boomvideo.app), Previously Product Director @ Shopify and creator of the Shop app (used by 100M+ people)

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Ben launched and is responsible for Colliers Innovation from strategy through execution of the emerging technology investment platform across all markets, geographies and service lines. Colliers operates in over 60 countries with more than 18,000 employees globally. Ben is a part of the Global Executive team. Prior to Colliers, Ben was the Managing Director and led the Colliers Proptech Accelerator powered by Techstars, a joint initiative by two leading global organizations in real estate and technology. The program was a unique opportunity for property technology startups to rapidly commercialize, scale and fund their business, working closely with Colliers global leadership, the broader real estate industry and Techstars network of highly renowned mentors. Prior to Techstars, Ben was at Ritual, a top-tier silicon valley venture-backed technology company that raised over $120 million USD, where he was a member of the senior leadership team, focusing on creating growth strategies globally. He led global partnerships, focused on new market entry. Prior to joining Ritual, Ben was an early-stage tech investor at one of the most active funds in Canada. He actively sourced new deals, evaluated investment opportunities, and worked with companies both prior and post-investment to help them scale and achieve their potential. Prior to that, Ben was a consultant in Accenture’s global strategy group and helped build Accenture’s Venture Capital Strategy Consulting Practice where, he provided advisory services to private equity clients resulting in over $100 million in growth capital financing and an IPO in September 2018. He worked on M&A engagements, developed growth strategy initiatives for exec teams and developed industry solutions within the firm. He is an avid problem solver with a strong track record of success in evolving ideas into products/solutions and then rapidly scaling them globally. He is the capability founder of the Digital Factory at Accenture where he obtained funding and built the first digital interactive mobile capability - a first step for Accenture in content creation for digital ad as a service. Today, Accenture Interactive is the world's largest digital Ad agency.

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Internationally experienced growth stage CEO and Board Member. SaaS | Mobile | FinTech.

Marek Nakonieczny

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MBA Graduate of Canada’s first Social Enterprise focused degree at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Passionate about the roles of capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship in achieving positive social impact.

David Verbeeten, CIP, PhD

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Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Nayms

Jonathan Naymark

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10+ years scaling businesses for growth. Specialize in developing new revenue streams at e-commerce and online media companies. Digital nerd passionate about using technology to transform consumer experiences.

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Backend software developer at Robinhood, building and deploying scalable backend services for core financial products using Python/Django, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes. PhD graduate in Statistics from the University of Toronto, specializing in generative modeling, anomaly detection, and stochastic differential equations. Experienced in Python, R, MATLAB, SQL, C++, and machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. Strong academic foundation with a background in pathobiology, statistics, and mathematics.

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Zack is a passionate and dedicated designer with over 10 years of hybrid UX design and front-end development experience within industry-leading organizations with a focus on SaaS products, eCommerce, documentation, and advertising/marketing. His technical design skills include user research, prototype development, information architecture and interface design. Additionally, he has a deep understanding of HTML, CSS/Sass and JS/React development which have been vital to his design practice. Zack has experience mentoring designers with different backgrounds and skill levels, and leading engineering teams in shipping successful projects. As a gay/queer person, Zack has unique lived experience and a diverse perspective which he brings to every challenge he encounters allowing him to reframe problems and deeply empathize with users. Zack excels on teams that value data, technology, humanity, empathy, diversity, and good design.