Michael Ocean

I’ve been in sales since I was 9 (selling sneakers to my classmates), but my real journey has taken me from founding AE to help scaling sales at companies with hundreds of reps.

And no matter the size of the org, one thing’s always been broken: coaching!

It was always reactive. Training was one-size-fits-all. Role-plays? Rare. Real coaching? Only if your manager wasn’t buried in pipeline reviews. And meaningful, actionable feedback? Practically nonexistent.

That’s why we built SellMeThisPen AI - to help revenue leaders scale personalized coaching and practice without adding more meetings or headcount.

Here’s what it helps you with:

✨ On-demand AI role-plays to sharpen real skills

✨ Instant, AI-powered coaching after real calls or mock sessions

✨ Reinforcement learning that actually sticks

Bottom line: It helps your team ramp faster, close better, and grow revenue - without burning out your managers.

If you’re rethinking how you scale coaching, let’s talk. 🤝

Founder & CEO

No more...

👎 CRM update dilemma
👎 Irrelevant & generic coaching & training

SellMeThisPen AI eliminates non-revenue tasks for sellers and helps leaders scale personalized coaching and practice so everyone can focus on what matters most: revenue growth! 

What SellMeThisPen can help you with: 

✨ Automated CRM updates ✨ Real-time and post-call AI coaching ✨ Role-play practice sessions with AI

Revigence

I created Revigence to provide business owners with multiple ways to leverage my expertise and network to increase revenue.  I bring over 20 years of experience driving organizational growth by optimizing business development strategies, aligning teams, and enhancing leadership focus.
 
I offer both fractional sales leadership, coaching and team management as well as project-based services designed to ignite momentum shifts, harness growth cycles, and support leadership through transformations.  

Grounded in practical experience and validated through tangible results, my approach empowers companies to scale efficiently and better monetize their sales activities. I can develop a process and management framework that ensures your growth strategy and sales efforts are predictable, profitable, scalable, and repeatable.
 
In addition to my expertise, I also maintain a strong network of resources in marketing, lead generation, process optimization, financial acumen, and access to growth capital through all stages.

President & Founder

The Conference Board of Canada

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Member of the Senior Executive Team with accountability for setting the strategic priorities for the organization and managing financial and operational performance. Executive lead with P&L accountability for the Innovation & Technology, Immigration and Custom Economic Research Departments.  

The Conference Board of Canada is the foremost independent, applied research organization in Canada. We deliver unique insights into Canada’s toughest problems empowering and inspiring leaders to build a stronger future for all Canadians through our trusted research and unparalleled connections.

Vice President

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.  Member of the Executive Team with accountability for setting the strategic priorities for the organization and managing financial and operational performance. Executive lead with P&L accountability for the Custom Economic Research, Immigration & Human Resources Portfolios

Executive Director

Managing a highly focused team across Eastern & Northern Ontario and the Atlantic provinces providing high impact Advisory Services to fast growing Canadian companies that improve their competitiveness by growing revenues, increasing efficiency and strengthening management capabilities.

Regional Director, Advisory Services

Team Lead, Senior Partner, Advisory Services

Working actively with businesses across Eastern & Northern Ontario providing high impact Advisory Services to fast growing Canadian companies that improve their competitiveness by growing revenues, increasing efficiency and strengthening management capabilities.

Senior Partner, Consulting & Advisory Services

Working actively with businesses across in Ottawa & Eastern Ontario providing high impact Advisory Services to fast growing Canadian companies that improve their competitiveness by growing revenues, increasing efficiency and strengthening management capabilities.

Partner, Consulting & Advisory Services

Helping create and develop Canadian businesses through financing, venture capital and consulting services.

Manager, Consulting

BDC is Canada’s business development bank. From more than 100 business centres across the country, BDC promotes entrepreneurship by providing highly tailored financing, venture capital and consulting services to entrepreneurs. 

Specialties:  Financing, Consultation services, Venture Capital, Subordinate and Growth & Transition Financing

Account Manager, Business Development

Thinkwrap Commerce

Well-known retail brands turn to Thinkwrap Commerce as their trusted eCommerce system integration partner when they want to grow revenue, increase online and in-store traffic, improve customer experience, grow a loyal customer base, achieve operational efficiency and higher profits.

Director, Business Development

Rocketinfo Inc  (NASDAQ: RKTI)

Rocketinfo provided market and competitive intelligence software products to enterprise and government organizations. The company built one of the largest news and blog search engines in the world indexing over 50,000 sources by the end of 2002. Rocket Desktop and Rocket Enterprise were used by Sun Microsystems, Bank of Montreal, DFAIT, Nascar, CBC, GSK, Mead Johnson, Netscape and many other Fortune 500 clients.

Founder & Director - Business Development

Rocket Technologies Inc.

Rocketinfo provided market and competitive intelligence software products to enterprise and government organizations. The company built one of the largest news and blog search engines in the world indexing over 50,000 sources by the end of 2002. Rocket Desktop and Rocket Enterprise were used by Sun Microsystems, Bank of Montreal, DFAIT, Nascar, CBC, GSK, Mead Johnson, Netscape and many other Fortune 500 clients.

Rocketinfo’s technology was originally developed to provide intelligent software tools that index, categorize and extract key concepts and data from current news and business information. These automated tasks enabled early adaptation of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds for personalized multi-channel delivery via news portals, emails, opt-in newsletters or alerts to recipients’ desktops or mobile wireless devices.  

Rocketinfo launched RocketNews in October 2000. RocketNews was one of the first current news search engines on the Internet (www.rocketnews.com). Powered by Rocket’s core search technology, the site provided a web-driven breaking news portal updated in real time. Users were able to search for news from 16,000 Internet news sites, using a combination of advanced Boolean expressions and parametric controls. RocketNews handled several million search requests a month and was a Webby nominee in 2003 for Best News Search Engine and for Best Internet News Site in 2004. 

In 2004 we completed a reverse merger and became a public company NASDAC:RKTI.

Founder - COO & VP Sales

GE Capital

GE Capital is the financial services unit of the American conglomerate General Electric. It provides commercial lending and leasing, as well as a range of financial services for health care, media, communications, entertainment, consumers, real estate, and aviation. It has a number of divisions, including GE Capital Aviation Services, GE Energy Financial Services and GE Healthcare Equipment Finance.

Sales Manager - Unix Sherpa

SLM Software

Regional Sales Development Manager

Milkyway Networks

Milkyway Networks Corporation is a global supplier of Internet and Intranet security applications designed to safeguard corporate-wide information.

Regional Business Development Manager - Europe & Asia Pacific

With over 20 years of experience,  I began in business development selling in high tech to customers, through channels and with partners around the World.  I co-founded two companies and learned how hard and exciting it is to take something from concept to conclusion.  That led me to focus on building teams and leading them to success.   Hiring the right people, developing talent, and coaching them to realize their potential has been the most rewarding part of my career.  

My focus has always been on implementing effective strategies that increase revenue, market share, and customer satisfaction and my experience in finance and operations has equipped me with the ability to manage budgets and resources effectively to drive profitability and growth.

I have also had the opportunity to help lead teams through large organizational transformations.   This included everything from setting bold new strategic directions, strengthening operations and financial performance, redesigning organizational structures to cultivating a values and purpose driven culture. 

I come to the table with a fresh set of eyes, enthusiasm for what can be accomplished and the energy to make things happen.  I want to keep learning and having impact.  I also want to keep smiling and enjoy the teams I get to work with.

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