Ali Salman

WorkSpace Modular Structures

Ali Salman is the CEO of Workspace Modular Structures, a company dedicated to setting new standards in modular construction through innovative design and business integrity. Ali’s leadership has been instrumental in delivering scalable, sustainable, and rapidly deployable infrastructure modular solutions across various sectors, including energy, healthcare, housing, and disaster relief.

Partner & CEO

Modular Building Institute

Spearheading research collaborations to bridge academic innovation and industry application in modular construction.

Leading initiatives that transform theoretical advancements into scalable, real-world modular and prefabrication solutions.

Actively engaging with top industry experts to produce white papers, design standards, and best practices that elevate the global modular construction sector.

Chair of MBI Research & Development Council

Lawtiq.com

Foreign Direct Investment & Business Immigration Advisory Firm

Partner

BIG Properties Group

Real Estate Investments - Explore lucrative commercial properties and cash flowing businesses that offer great investment potential. Whether it's office spaces, retail outlets, or industrial buildings, cash flowing businesses we help you make sound investment decisions.

Northgate Modular

Indigenous Partnerships Lead

Drove revenue growth and market expansion through strategic partnerships, especially with Indigenous communities, governments, and resource sector clients.

Led business development for turnkey modular solutions across mining, energy, education, healthcare, and workforce housing sectors.

Oversaw large-scale modular projects, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts while ensuring cultural alignment and community benefit agreements.

Developed marketing and sales strategies that increased lead generation and conversion rates, contributing to double-digit revenue growth.

Strengthened Northgate’s brand presence as a preferred modular solution provider for northern and remote projects.

Director Strategic Growth, Marketing & Sales

Cormode & Dickson Ltd.

Leading Modular Construction Division 

Built and scaled the modular construction division, delivering high-value projects across petroleum, industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential sectors.

Managed cross-functional teams, ensuring projects were completed on time and under budget, while meeting stringent safety and quality standards.

Secured strategic partnerships and repeat business from top-tier clients, growing division revenue by over 40% during tenure.

Provided design-build solutions tailored to clients' evolving needs, integrating future-proof modular construction methods.

Vice President of Modular Division

Keylo Inc

Advised on modular housing projects aimed at increasing affordable homeownership across Canada.

Collaborated with developers and investors to structure modular real estate deals, focusing on innovative financing models and efficient construction techniques.

Helped clients navigate regulatory landscapes and optimize project viability using prefab solutions.

Modular Housing Consultant

Director of Business Development

Gaps AI

Launched and scaled a digital growth agency specializing in AI-driven marketing strategies, digital transformation, and lead generation.

Built a client portfolio including startups, SMEs, and enterprises across Canada, helping companies achieve measurable revenue growth.

Successfully exited after acquisition, delivering shareholder value and client continuity.

Co-Founder - Sold

Extreme PIta

Operated and scaled six high-performing franchise locations, consistently ranked among the top in Western Canada.

Managed over 45 employees, handled P&L, inventory, vendor relations, and multi-location operations.

Implemented local marketing campaigns resulting in a 17% sales increase in Northern Alberta.
Successfully sold business to MTY Group.

Franchisee (6 locations) - Acquired

As Managing Partner at BIG Business Brokers, I lead a coast-to-coast team sourcing and closing mid-market acquisitions—$1 M to $50 M—for family offices, private equity, and entrepreneurial buyers. From hotels and gas stations to manufacturing firms, we package deals that de-risk the buy-side and maximise seller exits. My edge: hands-on operating and turnaround experience, giving clients board-level insight with an owner’s hustle.

Modular Visionary Fixing the Housing Gap
As CEO of Workspace Modular, I spearhead scalable, factory-built solutions—workforce housing, schools, clinics, and mixed-use projects—that slash timelines and costs while meeting CSA and local code. Our “design-for-repeatability” approach fast-tracks approvals and turns real estate into an off-the-shelf asset class.

Why Work With Me?
End-to-End Execution: From due diligence and capital stack design to post-close value creation.
Network Depth: 32 k+ investors, developers, and C-suite contacts across North America.
Data-Driven: Financial modelling, market analytics, and rigorous risk filters on every file.

15 years in operations, construction, and asset management—so strategies actually work in the field.

Let’s Build & Buy
Acquirers & Sellers: DM for confidential deal flow or exit planning.
Developers & Municipalities: Talk to me about plug-and-play modular projects that solve density and ROI.
Partners & Talent: Always scouting sharp minds who want to scale big ideas.

Fractional CMO

Partner Support, Partner Resources, Partner Success, Partner Recruiting

EJ@ats-business.com

If you are a project owner with a prime project fitting our criteria, then email EJ@ats-business.com for the project question form.

Complete the project question form with details.
Renewable energy projects must have offtake agreements, purchase power agreements covering more than 100% of the amount sought after. 
Oil and gas projects must have land and mineral rights, and while PPA's are not necessary they are better.

Return completed project question form to EJ@ats-business.com for review.  The first 7 questions must be Yes.

https://ats-business.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/above-the-standard

Global Vice President, Partnerships and Relationships

Bringing the Right People Together for Sustainable Realized Results! 

ATS delivers results by partnering and supporting the core competencies and uniqueness of each of our clients, with our customized, innovative, and proprietary solutions and global experts.

Team – Lead – Grow – Increase Profits & Improve Capital

Global Vice President, Client Growth, Partner Talent, Project Development

Bringing the Right People Together for Sustainable and Realized Results! ATS delivers results by partnering and supporting the core competencies and uniqueness of each of our clients, with our customized, innovative, and proprietary solutions and global experts.

Increase Profits, Improve Capital, Reduce Cost!

Global Vice President, MST

ATS delivers results by partnering and supporting the core competencies and uniqueness of each of our clients. Each solution is customized through our cutting-edge proprietary solutions and global expert team.

- AI Growth Solutions
- Procurement Cost Reduction
- Merchant Cost Reduction
- Energy Project Funding

Vice President - AI, Technology, Software, and Cost Reduction Solutions

Global Partner

Hedge Structures Inc.

Constructing many ultra-high efficiency structures such as greenhouses and buildings, resulting in very significant energy savings and quick ROI.

Visit https://www.hedgestructures.com for more information.  Email info@hedgestructures.com.

Chief Operations Officer

Business Insights to Growth and Success

This LinkedIn group provides a platform for business leaders including CXO's (CEO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CSO, CTO, COO, CIO), decision makers, visionaries, and those on the forefront of technology to share and discuss strategies in how businesses should wisely move forward in an ever-increasing pace of change in the world in order to grow and succeed.

Are you an executive who enjoys learning together and sharing experiences?  Are you someone who has successfully grown a business?  Are you someone with insights or proven strategies to create growth and success?  You are invited to join our group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13968545/ and contribute with engaging posts and discussions.

Let's participate and accomplish great things together!

Owner of LinkedIn Group

Remote Work | Work From Home | Virtual Work

This LinkedIn group provides a platform for discussions on remote/virtual work or working from home.  With technology advancing rapidly, new work arrangements are possible.  Business leaders including executive CXO's, HR professionals, recruiters, employees, employers/businesses, entrepreneurs, and people currently working remotely can discuss the benefits, challenges, and other pros and cons of remote work.

Is remote work only possible in certain industries?  Is it only certain positions that remote work would function successfully?  What characteristics are needed by people to be successfully working from home?  Is a feeling of isolation or a disconnect with other team members an issue? Let's discuss discipline, flexibility, training, advantages, and disadvantages.  Plus many other questions can be debated.

You are invited to join our group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13980532/ to create discussion with engaging posts and articles, and gain insights.

Let's examine working remotely together to see what conclusions we arrive at!

Integrated Marketing Platform

Integrated Marketing has developed a Marketing Workflow Management Platform (MWMP) that brings together top global talent to develop and execute well-integrated marketing strategies that help businesses achieve the highest return on marketing investment. Customers are from across business sizes, industries, geographies and markets.

Development of sales teams with the goal of maximizing revenue generation.  Recruitment, on-boarding, mentoring, contract review and feedback, weekly meetings, customer meetings, and development and execution of strategies to generate revenue.  Strategic advisor to Managing Director.

Vice President, Strategic Business Development

Strategic development of sales in the Calgary region.

Corporate Website:  www.IntegratedMarketing.pro

Vice President, Business Development, Calgary

Skywalker Marketing Ltd.

Skywalker Marketing Ltd. is a Calgary-based company providing businesses with first class quality affordable advertising and marketing solutions since 1996.

Grew solutions for businesses and today Skywalker Marketing is creating high quality professional websites.

General Manager

Sales Manager

TNC Publishing Group

TNC Publishing Group is a pioneer of custom magazines, having produced publications for corporate clients, industry associations and organizations across Canada and the United States since 1972.  Joined the team with progressively increasing responsibilities to developing the sales team and leading the marketing initiatives.

Director of Marketing and Sales

Regional Sales Manager

Marketing Director

Better Business Bureau

Top performer of complaint conciliation at Better Business Bureau Serving Southern Alberta and East Kootenay.

Trade Practices Consultant

Need $100M to $5B+ in Capital for a Shovel-Ready Project?
If you are a project owner with a world-class project in energy, infrastructure, or real estate, email Erwin Jack at EJ@ats-business.com to request our project question form to complete for next steps.

At the core of our services is project finance readiness consulting, helping project owners structure and prepare their projects to meet the necessary criteria for potential project financing. 

For formal clients of our firm, we provide direct access to a global network of project finance providers. These business relationships are available exclusively through our consulting services, ensuring that finance-ready projects can engage with potential funding sources effectively. To learn more, please complete our project form and we will review your submission to determine the next steps.

Core Industries We Serve:
Biofuel, Biomass, Carbon Emission Control Projects, Data Centers, Energy Storage, Environmental Social and Governance Projects, Geothermal, Hospitality, Hydro Power, Hydrogen, Infrastructure, LNG, Multi-use Real Estate, Natural Gas, Oil and Gas, Solar, Renewable Energy, Tech, Telecommunications, Water Production and Conservation.

Our Global Reach Includes:
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden.

With a legacy spanning more than 30 years, Above The Standard (ATS) has done many projects doing what we do best – Expert Project Finance Readiness Consulting and Procurement Cost Reduction.

Proven Results:
ATS has increased profits, improved capital, and reduced costs in the billions of dollars for many organizations.

Contact:
For inquiries and collaboration opportunities, reach out to Erwin Jack at EJ@ats-business.com.

Connect:
• Website: https://ats-business.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/above-the-standard
• X: https://x.com/ErwinJack_
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@erwinjack_ats

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