Marketing Sales

*

JEAN-SEBASTIEN LEROUX

** ********** **** ****: 416-***-****

Toronto, Ontario Home: 416-***-****

M2P 1A3 E-mail: *********@*****.***

PROFILE

A visionary and strategic leader who is a seasoned bilingual professional with extensive management and entrepreneurship experience, adept to setting directions to increase organizational performance and achieve high results. Over 20 years of leadership experience in managing all aspects of an organization including but not limited to: Operations, Business Development /Marketing, HR/Recruitment, Finance, IT, Process Optimization, Restructuration and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Awarded 7 times the title of One of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies (Proex Inc.), Profit Magazine.

Awarded the Entrepreneur of the year award by the Economic Chamber or Ontario. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Partner – Urbanco/Modern Skyline Corporation – Toronto, ON 2015 to present

Urbanco/Modern Skyline Corporation is Real Estate Investment & Development Firm.

• Identified and analysed key business opportunities as well as overall inception and development of construction projects including but not limited to land development, financing, architecture, design, construction, sales, marketing, etc.

• Currently leading the development of a condominium project in downtown Old Oakville.

Executive Vice President & Board Director – ALTEN, Toronto Ontario July 2016 to December 2019

Alten is a multinational technology consulting and engineering company with offices in 25 countries and with revenue of over 2 billion euro and more than 30,000 employees across the world.

• Strategically developed and created the footprint for this company in Canada including growing the Canadian market by over half in 3 years.

• Established the company vision and led strategic direction.

• Set up budget and ensure financial performance of the organization. 2

• Established company goals and created departmental and individual objectives.

• Monitored, helped and empowered the team to achieve their objectives.

• Merged and successfully integrated all aspects of the businesses.

• Developed a new global positioning and roadmap for the company.

• Successfully addressed the cultural business differences between the Canadian and European market.

• Restructured the organization to align with the new business model, including putting in place objectives to support the new development plan.

• Implemented new metrics to assess staff’s performance to align it with the vision and objectives of the company.

• Reviewed roles and functions across the company to identify gaps and address areas of improvement by meeting with staff to facilitate change and optimize operational processes.

• Developed and managed clients through networking and other activities.

• Oversaw project delivery and ensured high level of customer satisfaction.

• Recruited and Managed Staff and Subcontractors.

• Implemented a new Customer Relationship Management & Back Office software, updated company web site and migrated company to Office 365.

• Identified and reviewed potential acquisitions for the Canadian market. Founder/President/CEO - PROEX Inc., Toronto, Ontario May 1998 – July 2016

Proex is a Canadian Private Professional Services Firm providing IT & Management Consulting Services for both the private and public sector.

• Successfully built and grew the company to a multi-million-dollar company which also became one of the top 250 ICT (Information Communication Technology) consulting company in Canada, Branham Group.

• Led the development of the vision and strategic direction for Proex including setting the company’s objectives and recruited and led a team to achieve these objectives.

• Responsible for all the facets of the business: Business Development, HR, Recruitment, Operations, Finance, Marketing, IT & Legal.

• Developed and reviewed all service offerings for the business.

• Assessed industry benchmarks and developed best practices to incorporate within the organization to achieve the highest level of performance.

• Assessed global positioning and established market strategies, including developing sales & marketing plans to achieve those objectives.

• Developed strategic alliances with several organizations to support the growth of the business.

• Developed and continuously monitored the budget and fiscal management of the company.

• Built a strong network of relationships with key executives and decision makers across a variety of industries.

• Developed and managed clients through networking and other activities. 3

• Oversaw project delivery and ensured high level of customer satisfaction.

• Developed web site and all marketing material for Proex.

• Sold the business to a large multinational consulting company. Partner – Spinburst – Toronto, ON

2012-2014

Spinburst is a spin image creation and geo tag sharing software company that helps to render a 360-dimensional view of anything you want to share. It allows one to label the image and search spins by keywords.

Businesses can display the inside view of their location, 360 view of products they are looking to sell, rent, share etc.

Consumers can display their favorite people, places, events and things and share the experience with the community.

Led the business in areas such as:

• Business Plan & Strategy

• Product Development & Design

• Go to Market Strategy

• Business Development & Partnerships

• Investment Relationships

Prior Experience:

Various management roles in Sales, Marketing, HR and Operations at companies such as Focus Infotech, Algoma Steel and General Motors of Canada. Additional Board Experience:

Many years on the Board of Directors of Glenbriar Technologies, a publicly traded Information Technology Company.

PERSONAL TRAITS

Visionary, Strategic, Leadership, Entrepreneurial, Passionate, Inspiring, Charismatic, Goal Oriented, Dynamic, Innovative, Creative, Collaborative, Relationship-Builder, Analytical, Forward and Out of Box Thinking, Action Oriented, Team Player, Problem Solver, Genuine, Persistent & Hard Worker.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration (Specialized in Marketing), University of Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Contact this candidate