Blog Posts

  • Developing and Managing Strategic Relationships within the APAC region

    Developing and Managing Strategic Relationships within the APAC region

    Region: APAC Country: Canada As the Director: Foreign Business Line  for the Royal Canadian Mint, I was responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships at the Ministerial and Departmental level with the Ministries of Finance across a range of jurisdictions, including Thailand, VietNam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, and the Philippines.  Product priorities included…

  • Trade and Investment Support  / Capacity Building (Asia Pacific Region)

    Trade and Investment Support  / Capacity Building (Asia Pacific Region)

    Region: APAC Country: Canada As Senior Vice President with an International Consulting firm, I was responsible for the development and initial management of the Canadian Trade and Investment Facility (CTIF), which developed and delivered trade and investment-related policy reforms to public and private sector stakeholders within the region.

  • Nationwide Money-Transfer System Development in Thailand

    Nationwide Money-Transfer System Development in Thailand

    Region: APAC Country: Thailand Led a cross cultural team of Canadian technology companies plus a Thai-based Systems integration firm, plus investors, in the development and deployment of a nationwide money-transfer system.   The deployment of this solution provided the business case for a significant investment in rural telecommunications nationally.

  • Acquisition and Integration of Purolator Courier

    Acquisition and Integration of Purolator Courier

    Region: North America Country: Canada Member of the team engaged in the Corporate Development effort to both identify a strategic partner for Canada Post Corporation for North America and Europe.  This included the acquisition, plus subsequent integration of Purolator into the Canada Post family of products, services and employees.

  • Strategic Business Plan and Investment Success: Postea Group’s Establishment in Singapore

    Strategic Business Plan and Investment Success: Postea Group’s Establishment in Singapore

    Region: APAC Country: Singapore Developed the business plan, plus managed the investment and acquisition negotiations to create a technology company focused on the logistics market.  Resulted in the creation of the Postea Group, plus an SPV with Singapore Post & Temasek, with an initial valuation $120M.