Davide V.

President & CEO | Fortune 500 trained expert strategist and executive enabling start-ups to billion-dollar brands to differentiate, compete, grow and scale predictably in any market condition.

I believe the future will be shaped by leaders who understand people, build durable systems & use AI to amplify positive impact.

I am a Fortune 500–trained CEO with 25+ years leading complex organizations across CPG, retail, and healthcare in Canada and the U.S.

I have led national organizations, nine-figure P&Ls & enterprise transformations through turnaround, scale & modernization, delivering sustained margin expansion, growth & organizational resilience.

I have also lived the personal cost of leadership done without systems. The tension between performance and health, ambition and family, scale and sanity is not a personal failing. It is a systems failure.

As a CEO, I align strategy, operations & talent into a coherent operating rhythm. I remove hidden friction that drives burnout & inefficiency, install decision clarity & accountability, and build governance cadence that boards can trust.

My work is grounded in execution, not theory. I connect dots others miss and translate complexity into systems teams can actually run. The result is calm, predictable execution at scale.

Despite my experience & training, I operate with a beginner’s discipline. Business is my NHL. I never stop training, studying the game, refining fundamentals, and adapting to faster play. I keep investing in learning across leadership, systems design, AI, governance & human performance. 

Sustained advantage comes from continuous improvement. Compounding is a moat.

ManagementOS® is the outcome of my Executive MBA thesis & years of real-world application as a CEO. It is my trademarked executive operating system for North America, documented to formalize how I think, lead & differentiate as an operator. It replaces heroics & ad-hoc decision-making with repeatable operating rhythms across strategy, operations & talent. ManagementOS® is not a commercial pitch. It is the protected expression of my leadership craft, and I apply the same discipline to my own brand.

Strong leadership today requires fiduciary responsibility not just for the P&L, but for durability, operating rhythm & human sustainability. That is the lens I bring to every organization I lead and every board I serve.

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Davide Viola, MBA
Dad | Hubby | Son | Loyal Friend
CEO | Fortune 500–Trained Exec
ManagementOS® - Intellectual Property

Chief Executive Officer

► President and Chief Executive Officer reporting to a board represented by each province across Canada
► Canada's largest network of retail health and wellness operators representing over 9 figure sales in the growing category of natural health and wellness.
► Founded in 1999, Health First Network, is a national network of 140+ independent health and wellness stores offering supplements, organics, gluten-free foods, natural health & beauty aids, as well as sales, marketing, retail flyer, category management, and distribution services.
►  The focus will include growing retail member sales across all vendors, increase retail traffic and revenue through collaborative vendor partnerships and best-in-class marketing to drive demand generation.
►  Responsibilities include sales, marketing, business development, category management, finance, operations, warehouse, procurement, new product development, and vendor/partner relations.
►  Hybrid retail/CPG model
►  Coast to coast representation across English and French Canada

Marcus Aurelius would ask:
“What’s actually within my control?”

Charlie Munger would reply:
“Invert the problem. What am I ignoring that could quietly hurt me?”

That question spurred me to do some research.

Our biology evolves slowly.
Our environment has changed at warp speed (I love Star Trek and wanted to get a reference in here!).

Food systems, stress, light exposure, sleep, toxins, pace of life. 
All are radically different from what our bodies evolved to expect.

Some people debate supplements emotionally.
I wanted to look at the evidence calmly.

So I went down the rabbit hole. Peer-reviewed research. Nutrient adequacy data. Bioavailability. Quality differences. 
What’s the signal? What’s noise?

Here’s the simple inversion:

It’s not “Will supplements magically fix everything?”
It’s “What’s the cost of ignoring well-documented gaps between modern life and human biology?”

Marcus reminds us to focus on what we can control.
Munger reminds us to avoid obvious, avoidable mistakes.

That lens changed how I think about health, supplementation, and longevity.

I just published a new edition of my newsletter, breaking this down. 
Calm. Evidence-based. No hype. No fear. Just peer-reviewed facts.

If this resonates, don’t start with Google or AI. 
Start with a human.

Visit a knowledgeable, independent health retailer who can help you think critically about quality, bioavailability, and fit.

🇨🇦 Canada: Health First Network retailers: https://lnkd.in/gsAtSCHu
🇺🇸 U.S.: INFRA independent natural retailers: https://lnkd.in/gmkjTPTW

Would love your thoughts and experiences.

#Health #Longevity #EvidenceBased #DecisionMaking #Leadership

Davide Viola, MBA

CEO | Fortune 500–Trained Operator | Operating Systems for Scale, AI Leverage & Leadership Health | ManagementOS® | TEDx Texas

The Question That Changed How I Think About Health Here's something that stopped me in my tracks during my research: Your DNA is essentially the same 

Open article: The Ancient Body in a Modern World: Why Supplementation Isn't Optional Anymore by Davide Viola, MBA • 10 min read

The Ancient Body in a Modern World: Why Supplementation Isn't Optional Anymore

CEO & FOUNDER at CREWASIS | FORTUNE 500 EXEC | HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL AI & METAVERSE RESEARCH | TEDX SPEAKER | ON DECK | C100 | BWOB | DATA SCIENCE SOLUTIONS | AI | METAVERSE

CEO, and Founder of CREWASIS.AI, a platform that finds and ranks ideas. We are on a mission to find data-driven insights that change the world.  The platform uses publicly available data to predict trends in the form of insights and trends using AI and statistical analysis.  I am a Fortune 500 executive with 20 years of enterprise marketing and sales experience.  I left corporate in 2018 to pursue an idea after attending Harvard Business School and I wanted to create a company with a unique culture focused on diverse talent and thinking.  Recognizing that marketers have the largest discretionary budgets in the world yet know they can be better spent, she set charge to build a platform to do it.  I created CREWASIS during the pandemic and started experimenting with fine-tuned data science models to generate speedy ideas delivering 3x higher ROI and 3x lower costs.

The goal of the company is to identify blind spots and uncertainty. CREWASIS.AI was developed to harness the power of data and AI to surface the next big trends translating them into insights before they become headlines and before competitors see them.

Sharon's Background:
MBA, Marketing, and Strategy
Thesis, Psychology, and Neuroscience  
Research: AI with HBS, Cognitive Psychology University of Windsor
Data Science focus with a proven track record of growing business and brands at Fortune 500 companies.
Passion for turning data into actionable intelligence.

Sharon Joseph

People sometimes ask me, “Why do you work so hard?”

It’s rarely a neutral question and seldom called ambition. 

When I am, it’s framed as concern, as if effort needs an explanation.

So here’s the simple truth. 

I don’t work hard because I’m trying to prove anything. I work with intention because the work deserves it. I work because I see results when I do something I love.

Long before founding an AI company, I spent two decades inside Fortune 100 organizations, building and scaling consumer brands where execution mattered, and decisions carried weight. Those environments trained me to think clearly, move deliberately, and respect outcomes. Pressure wasn’t dramatized; it was part of the job. Credibility was earned quietly, through follow-through.

Starting a company didn’t make the work heavier. It made it cleaner.
Building an AI business means deciding without perfect information, prioritizing what actually matters, and protecting trust, with customers, with employees, with investors, often simultaneously. There are no inherited systems to lean on. You design the machine while running it. 

That requires presence, not panic. 
Discipline, not noise.

What some people read as intensity is simply clarity.

Preparation is care. 
Consistency is leadership. 
The focus is on sustaining momentum without burnout. 

I’m not interested in being seen as busy. I’m interested in reducing friction, closing loops, and building something that holds up under real-world pressure.

As we move into 2026, the work is becoming more refined.

Fewer initiatives.
Cleaner decisions.
Real customers with real problems.
Products that simplify instead of impress.
Conviction that doesn’t wobble when it’s tested.

I don’t work hard because I have to justify my ambition. I work with purpose because I see the full landscape.

Customers rely on the product.
Teams rely on leadership.
Companies only survive if someone stays steady when things get uncomfortable.

That’s not intensity. That’s stewardship. And it’s simply good business.

Happy New Year to everyone crushing big goals this year.

#founder #nyctec #entrepreneurship #founders #2026 #newgoals #foundergoals #newyear #2026newyear #goals #futureofwork

Founder & CEO | The Future of Work: Making better business decisions using AI | Techstars ’24 | Raising $1 Million Pre-Seed

Some connections really do stand the test of time.

Had the absolute pleasure of reconnecting with Debbie Bolding this week—a full decade after we last worked together. 

Ten years, multiple companies, new cities, new chapters… and somehow it felt like no time had passed at all.

We talked about everything from:

• building and protecting iconic service brands
• supporting franchisees at scale (without losing the human touch)
• why consistency and trust still beat “on-demand everything”
• how AI can actually help teams see around corners—not just automate tasks

Debbie Bolding leads communications Merry Maids® across North America, and it was inspiring to see how she’s blending deep brand stewardship with a very modern, tech-forward mindset. 

Grateful for work relationships that evolve into long-term professional friendships—and for the shared GSK-era roots that still connect so many of us years later.

Here’s to reconnecting, reflecting, and building what’s next. 

#founder #merrymaids #comms #nyc #newbusinesses #oldbusinesses #sales #marketing #nycfounder

We are pleased to announce our newest partnership with Water Pik, Inc.       

This collaboration has led to a remarkable success story on our platform, showcasing our ability to uncover hidden insights that no other research can find. 

Thank you Suzanne Carranza and Nicholas Leavitt for your partnership. 

For more details, check out the success story here: 
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Open article: From Impact to Action: Waterpik's Success Story! by mailchi.mp

From Impact to Action: Waterpik's Success Story!

Automation doesn't come from living and breathing AI.  

The future of work is about taking manual work and automating so we reduce the tasks that we don't need to spend countless hours on.

I started in very manual jobs. They still are. If anything, AI will help remove some of the friction in these roles and hopefully allow for more human interaction.

My path to AI is a narrative many founders can relate to: blood, sweat, and tears.

For a decade, I juggled multiple jobs to finance my education. As the child of Guyanese immigrants to Canada who had three kids, my parents couldn't financially plan for my schooling, so I took it upon myself to earn the money needed to pursue my dreams and goals.

Becoming a founder at a young age wasn't an option for me. I consider myself fortunate to have had a solid career that allowed me to save and eventually take the time to build my own venture.

The future of work is my passion, and I know where it all started.  

Driving a Frito Lay Truck is still one of my favorite parts of my story.

I hope my story resonates with some of you.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. 

#founders #nyctech #ai #futureofwork #aiautomation #nycfounders #entrepreneurship #firstjobs #careerjourney #founderlife

Open article: The future of work didn’t start with AI for me. by medium.com

The future of work didn’t start with AI for me.

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