Yukon Venture Angels

I’m here to do exceptional work that empowers investors, uplifts founders, and creates something unforgettable. Let’s build the future of the North together.

I lead the charge in building the Yukon’s angel investing ecosystem by connecting visionary entrepreneurs with strategic investors to fuel scalable growth. Focused on aligning operations with strategic goals, I’m here to ensure YVA thrives—delivering value to diverse members, building community, and creating a pipeline of investment-ready opportunities.

In my first 90 days, I’m driving membership engagement, streamlining processes, and crafting a Strategic Plan that blends governance precision with big-picture vision. I’m also forging partnerships with organizations like NACO (National Angel Capital Organization) to expand opportunities for investors and founders alike.

Think strategy meets creativity, where no challenge is too big and no detail is too small. It’s about crafting scalable systems through fostering connections. This role is about lighting a fire on the mountain of the Yukon’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Shapeshifter 

Business Operations

Kinnikinnick Studio

🚅 Beginning with web development and brand proliferation execution this contract grew to management level. 
🚅 Explored, reported, and analyzed public opinion on high-impact topics (ex bike lanes, traffic, trains).
✅ Coordinate, manage, and develop market research, messaging, logistics, and up to 20 staff
✅ Analyze meaningful data to be communicated to diverse stakeholders and public
✅ Disrupt City-wide engagement methods by going “to the people”
🚅 Budgeted time/money aiding security of future bids and partnerships

🚅 Accomplishments
✅ Spearheaded alternative project types creating efficiencies by utilizing local influencers
✅ Drew over 1800 LRT survey respondents when minimum requirement was 400 (that's more than 4X)
✅ Liaise between volunteers, city staff, provincial representatives, contractors, sans conflict

Public Engagement, Events, and Project Manager

Gitcoin

● Conducted a comprehensive deep dive and listening tour into all Developer Relations, community relations, events, and social listening initiatives resulting in crafting and implementing an annual Citizen Engagement Strategy, enhancing community involvement and participation both digitally and physically
● Spearheaded the experimental "IRL Grant Rounds" initiative, attracting hackers for new Citizen onboarding,
essential for continuous novel builds for emerging products
● Facilitated product roadmap sessions to achieve business goals, including a GMV target of $50 million
● Secured new contract, worth $75,000 USD+, within the first 10 days, and continued management of these partnerships and staff while accountable for successful outputs
● Facilitated founder's on-site activities at TED Talks, including running an impromptu Quadratic Funding round
● Bridged company cross-functionalities across Grants Lab, Ecosystem Collective, DAO Foundation, and public citizens to ensure cohesive operations
● Actively participated in governance, contributing to strategic decision-making and policy development
● Onboarded high-profile contractors, establishing KPIs and success metrics, and ensuring accountability

Chief of Staff, Interim

Rome Blockchain Labs Inc.

🪙Responsible for strategic planning and execution of marketing, growth, product, and communications campaigns. Serve as the key strategic advisor to Executives, driving cross-functional teams to quantitative growth objectives. 🪙

🪙 Lead executives, developers, and creatives through a comprehensive brand refresh and digital overhaul:
✅Tripled Twitter following to 9000 in one month
✅Achieved a 54% engagement rate on Twitter

🪙 Leverage new creative positioning and a sophisticated long-tail keyword strategy:
✅Quadrupled referring domains in six months
✅Maintained a cost-per-click (CPC) average for YouTube ad below $0.03 

🪙 Implemented cutting-edge growth hacking techniques, impacting user engagement and retention:
✅93.4% 30-day retention rate for engaged users 
✅Product of the Week on ProductHunt
✅Crypto Award for Benqi within first thirty days
✅ Recruited and engaged with focus group for product testing and improvements

🪙 Crafted and executed 9 unique go-to-market strategies for global B2C and SaaS B2B launches 
🪙 Introduced AI to fuel learn/fail prototypes cross-functionally resulting in a flagship product pivot
🪙 Explored creative tactics like “RBL Degen” mascot ❌, “Liquid Stonking” ✅, and daily podcast “Go FUD Yourself” ✅ 
🪙Developed deep relationships with external partners across networks, dApps, and TG communities, including but not limited to: AVAX, Cosmos (Flare, Evmos, Kava), DFK, BNB, ETH, MVR, METIS, Pizza DAO, Revenant, Disruptor DAO

Director of Growth Marketing & Communications

NorQuest College

📚 Acted as an SME for an intro to business course for FBET
📚 Course was designed for the ML Program
📚 Relevant knowledge was gained regarding OERs, NorQuest's facilities and resources for instructors,and current pedagogy expectations

🏫The new, modern course included🏫
👩🏼‍🏫 Storytelling across industries
👩🏼‍🏫 Reflective exercises to bring the stories to life
👩🏼‍🏫 Multiple voices from the local community
👩🏼‍🏫 Mentorship for the individual
👩🏼‍🏫 EDI knowledge and anti-racism melded into each module
👩🏼‍🏫 Self-refelction based evaluation to ensure learners were meeting personal and professional goals
👩🏼‍🏫 Practice of core competencies like writing, reading comprehension, presentations, group collaboration,time management, and critical thought
👩🏼‍🏫 Assessments that include a human, emotional factor
👩🏼‍🏫 Assessments that recognize the individual’s growth rather than an obscure benchmark

Curriculum Developer

🚀 Advised the C-Suite on strategic planning, transformation management, and creative team management, while prototyping and scaling college initiatives and new business lines.
🚀 Pioneered the Innovation Studio, transforming it into a strategic incubator for cross-functional moonshot projects, alternative revenue streams, and a testing center for emerging technologies 
🚀 Orchestrated the evaluation, funding, and development of over 75 projects annually employing a rigorous test of viability to scale or pivot strategies based on community impact, profit potential, and alignment with the strategic masterplan
🚀 Rebranded $100 000 quarterly Strategic Initiative Funding into the "QPrize," an eight-month development opportunity that supported cross-functional, learner, community, and environmentally focused strategic initiatives, enhancing the college's brand and community engagement while exploring new business lines
🚀 Active relationships with Major Donors, Naming Donors, and government officials
🚀 Led the creation of a strategic roadmap for the integration of emerging technologies including: 🔭 Experiential Reality (VR and AR), IoT, 3D Printing technologies, and blockchain credentials across the college, enhancing educational delivery and operational efficiency
🚀 Developed and managed a rolling annual business plan/budget focused on alternative revenue 
🛰️ Led all facilitation measures regarding visioning, change management, and digital transformation:
🛰️ Led team of directors and VPs in crafting the Zoom In/Zoom Out 20-Year Strategy, CX Strategic Plan 2025, Reimagine Higher Education 2030 
🔭 Serve on the Disruption Committee, 10-Year-Zoom-Out Committee, Inclusion Fusion Working Group, Redesigning Classroom Working Group, Anti-Racism Working Group, Corporate Challenge, and more
🔭 Transition College Wide Learning Day, the largest event of the year, online

Lead, Innovative Practices

Habit 

(Maternity Cover)
Created marketing strategy and business development plans for industrial and healthcare clients. Executed strategy and created transition documents for the incoming marketing coordinator. Developed broad-scale OOH, mail and digital media purchasing skills as contracted to media buying agency.

Marketing Strategist

Sherbrooke Liquor

Proposed as an experimental position. Beginning with basic advertising and promotions, transitioning into management, the position has instigated store-wide culture change. 
By increasing community involvement, lifestyle events, and proliferation of product and branding, "Creative Projects" encompasses operations, events, business development and storytelling through emotive communications. 
Meet revenue/budget targets through creation and implementation of marketing
Coach management and partners in brand adherence
Lead promotions increasing sales, tourism and lifestyle engagement
Actualize, create, book, and direct all external media, including radio, print, OOH, WOM
Schedule and manage all partnerships, events, and trade shows
Research, design, and launch new product developments, partnerships, programs, events, and sponsorships 
Champion management and staff in new technology adoption and culture evolution
Pilot community engagement programs benefiting staff, recognizing goodwill, and increasing business community loyalty
Comprehend international market to strategically launch new business developments and value-add programming
Evaluate success and evolve copy, presence, and purchasing of all campaigns

Accomplishments
Create and enforce usage of/team goals towards cross-functional KPIs
Conceptualise, prototype, and launch new product mixes, events, and subscriptions
Example:“Beer Scouts”, a subscription product motivated by nostalgia, enabling a self-managed community on UnTapped and in-store
Disrupt product offering with thousands attending alternative tastings
Reiterate importance of Tasting Room to local beer community post initial surge in bookings by establishing a sold out “Beer Week” featuring fourteen events, mirrored product offerings, and a partner based digital campaign
Use AGLC loophole and network with Rogers Media to personally greet 240 first-time customers in one day, promoting the new Tasting Room events and retail products

Creative Project Finagler

Mabinogion Mead, The Celt Experience

*Employment as per terms with MSc Marketing and Creativity*
Brought on as a branding intern, this position resulted in the take-over of multiple, well-established operations. From ingredient procurement to staff management using Gantt Charts, events to e-sales, all business operations became integrated and appropriately managed with attainable goals. Includes trade show integration; advert, spec sheet, and banner design; B2B and B2C campaigns and relationship building; international import and export management; international crisis management; agricultural liaising; government lobbying; and change management.

- Forecast all aspects, from operations and sales to corporate culture
- Actively run production and packaging of all products
- Book and attend promotional events and festivals
- Manage operational staff of 1-60
- Construct marketing plan in-line with natural world
- Promote artistic and experimental endeavours
- Actively seek possibilities for green location
- Liaise and negotiate with wholesalers, pubs, restaurants, and end consumers alike
- Attend trips and ensure adequate paperwork for EU exports
- Create and establish concepts in-line with the provided branding

Operations, Marketing, and Ethical Legacy Manager

I drive a 91 VW Jetta Wolfsburg edition. It's a diesel. 
Does this matter? Sort of. Driving a car like that, an "antique" with an irreplaceable windshield, isn't about getting from here to there. 

There's a passion behind driving. 
A tedium behind maintenance. 
A strategy keeping it on the road. 
A community of passionate builders. 
There's a look, a sound, a feel. 

Everything I do is with purpose, with community, and with a long-term strategy. 
None of this can happen without understanding the small details. 

You go to work each day and so do I. We can't do that without a driving force, a belief. Mine is a passion for equitable finance, for revolution in the way things work. Data, credentials, filing, social media, money. Give me Web3 already. 

Right now I'm doing strategic ops for a burgeoning startup DAO. I've also been in innovation, management, customer service, emerging technology, strategic planning, transformation, and more. 
My expertise spans from operations in established breweries to bootstrapping sports teams. But I have found an incredible fit for my beliefs in the revolution that is Blockchain Finance.

I've had the privilege of managing up to 60 people toward a common goal. 
I have a history of developing, inspiring, retaining, and coaching high-performing marketing and product teams to drive the attainment of ambitious company objectives. 
User counts, revenue, efficiencies, and yes, dreaded vanity metrics are all in my portfolio - and the portfolios of my team members. Give credit where it's due. 

If you want to see how Options in crypto can work for you, can't get the oil filter out of your lowered car, or want to enter the Web3 space, I'm here for you.

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