We-Watch Corporation 

Co-Founder & GC

DiMinno Rizzi In Association

Anti-Lawyer & Founder

DeckLinks

I help close enterprise clients and tailor sales and marketing strategy towards demonstrated product market fit customer segments.

Sales Leader

Gowling WLG

Articling Student

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

My research focus is on intellectual property, technology, and privacy law. Governments around the world are implementing privacy laws like the GDPR and PIPEDA. This is just the start of the regulation of data and policy choices will have long lasting effects on industry. Intellectual property's prominence is growing in Canada and it remains crucial that companies have a functional IP strategy to survive in a modern economy. Internet businesses are more complicated than ever due to conflict of laws, new and changing precedents regarding online contracts, and cross-boarder liability concerns. It is an exciting time to be researching these fields.

Research Assistant for Professor Vaver and D'Agostino

Canadian Intellectual Property Office / Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada

I provided consulting and quasi-legal services to the Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright divisions of CIPO. During my time here I worked on Cannabis, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence, USMCA and Patent Litigation related projects. CIPO welcomed an informed and up to date viewpoint on these topics and I was happy to provide direction in these areas.

Legal Intern

Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

The ministry has an important job. "Ensure Ontario can remain or become a world leader in research, technology, and innovation". Contrary to what many people believe, you cannot simply hand an organization a billion dollars and the world will magically become a better place.

Stimulating the economy is not as simple as spending money. You have to make tough decisions. Which industries currently have the talent to be a world leader in Ontario? Which industries will be around in 5, 10, 20 and 50 years from now? Should we promote basic research, applied research, or a mix of both? Which industries should we develop from the ground up? Should we support the few global Canadian international companies, or should we focus on SMEs?

The types of stimulus to be used is an important question still unanswered. Capital injections into already successful business is akin to picking winners, and brings up concerns of "corporate welfare". Subsidizing certain industries provides focused growth, but has free market concerns as well as potentially missing out on new industries that are now losing talent to subsidized ones. The American brain drain is a problem as well, as home grown talent or businesses funded by the government can either be recruited or bought by American corporations, with the Ontario tax payer footing the bill.

During my time at the ministry I learned there are no easy answers to any of these questions. The government is doing a combination of many of the ideas mentioned here. I was involved with the crucial process of separating valuable research from the noise, as decision making fueled by data driven research is the only way to run a government and raise a world class, multifaceted economy.

Policy Analyst

UTSC Model United Nations

Vice President

Association of Philosophy Students

Vice President, Operations

eHealth Ontario

eHealth Ontario has been commissioned by the provincial government to institute province wide institutional electronic health records for all doctors. These records will be easily transferable and searchable by clinics, hospitals, and individual clinicians. From more efficient emergency room visits, to transfer of patients to specialists, to large scale health research to improve planning or medical knowledge, the benefits of big data are immense. 

In a perfect world this would be a simple coordination task to get running. Things are never as simple in the real world. Many hospitals use their own, built in-house software for patient files. Some doctors do not see benefits to their own practice in exchange for compliance and additional costs on their end. Software providers continuously update their client management applications, and there are many big players in the market. Security is an enormous concern which must be handled with the utmost caution, planning and competence to protect a data store of such size and with such value and personal content.

Ever changing technology is always an important factor that must be managed. Data servers must be constantly replaced, software architecture must plan for hardware and software improvements that are still being developed. Big data must be accommodated for at every step of the way to truly reap the benefits of such large scale data collection. I assisted the executive team in this massive task by facilitating cross departmental knowledge transfer meetings, breaking down silos and providing an environment where informed decisions could be made.

Business Analyst

Helping You Think Differently to Change Your Life | Tech Scaleup Anti-Lawyer | Co-founder @ We-Watch | Helping Founders Need Less Lawyers as They Scale | Sharing My Startup Journey | Business Fundamentals

If I've learned anything so far, its that adding value is the best way to do business.

I'm looking to help make the world a safer place without comprising people's data privacy or freedoms as co-founder of We-Watch.

I also help startup founders raise money from Investors, scale without getting themselves in trouble, bail them out of their legal problems created before I met them, and eventually exit.

I learned how to code in 2020. I follow all things Tech and Crypto, and when I'm not learning things through YouTube I'm either hitting the weights, gaming, on a walk/run, or at the beach.

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