About
Serial Social Entrepreneur. Brand building, acquisitions & repositioning; insurance, re-insurance & retro, capital markets; food & beverage; PLM (kinematics); broadcast media; luxury hotel real estate.
Merging real world physical businesses (non-financial services) with capital markets (financial services) to enact long-term competitive advantage.
Work history
Clearly Canadian, Chairman & Chief Creative
Steward of Clearly Canadian® - National Heritage Brand of Canada - Est. 1987
4NCapital Partners, 4NCapital Partners
M&A, venture development & finance. Principal focus on multi-target reinsurance platform roll-up (facultative & treaty: P&C only) and derived asset management.
Extasy Records International, Staff Member to Yoshiki Hayashi
Part of core team of Japanese mega-star Yoshiki.
Universal Poly-Gram Holdings, Assistant to the Vice-President of Finance during Merger
Production of extensive merger presentations based on due diligence, industry research, economic impact and demographic analysis. Heavy interaction with senior executives of Universal & Seagram’s.
Lind Waldock, Alaron Trading; Consultant to Republic National Bank, Goldman Sachs, Perry Capital, Derivatives Trader / Risk Manager
Involved in numerous areas of the derivatives business. Early involvement in the opening years of Credit Derivatives, Electricity Derivatives, EFPs. Specialized in Dollar/Yen trade.
Continued focused on macro and volatility-based trading opportunities.
Education and qualifications
Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Vesalius College , International Affairs
Columbia College Chicago , Producing