Brian Pleet

Brian leverages diverse marketing and sales experience in start-up through Fortune 100 environments. He thrives by developing market strategy while simultaneously implementing business development tactics to overachieve results. Creative problem solver with instinct for building and engaging marketing and sales teams. <More>

Kevin Hood

Kevin Hood is the President of Market Access Corporation and has over twenty years experience working with a wide range of companies and organizations such IBM, CIBC, Northwestern Mutual Financial, Microsoft Skills 2000, Philips Electronics and the Canadian Professional Sales Association. <More>

George Torok

George Torok helps business owners gain an unfair advantage over the competition. As a marketing specialist he demonstrates how to build and follow effective marketing systems based on critical principles. That means better results for less money. <More>

Barry Siskind

Barry Siskind, President of International Training and Management Company is one of North America’s most sought after consultants and speakers and an internationally recognized trade and consumer show expert. <More>

Kevin J. Fitzgerald

Kevin is President of Aurora Research, www.auroraresearch.net. As a former reseller/VAR, Aurora Microsystems, was a Profit 100 Company, for 3 consecutive years. During a downturn in business, Aurora’s staff made the painful move of turning the business into a pure services company. Aurora Research was developed out of this adversity. Aurora Research, now services companies that represent approximately 700 Million in annual sales, ranging in size from approximately $500,000 in sales to over 120M. Our clients SR & ED claims range in value from $30,000 to over 1M. Our clients are in many industries. We believe as a former VAR, we have a unique perspective on the Industry with respect to SR&ED and can relate to the many challenges faced by VARS/Solution Providers/software Developers. references are included. <More>

David Saxby

David Saxby is an international speaker and trainer and a sales and marketing consultant with over 30 years experience. David’s first company grew from one man to a full service advertising agency in less than two years. He followed that success with a company he nurtured through a major recession and grew into one of Western Canada’s leading marketing firms with 23 staff. The success of that business was the result of implementing an innovative sales and marketing strategy in the professional services market. <More>

Hamlin Grange

Hamlin Grange is a dynamic speaker and a skilled facilitator with expertise in managing diversity and cultural competence. For nearly a decade he has helped individuals as well as organizations to leverage diversity to increase their knowledge, awareness and skills and to grow their business. <More>

Ron Gable

Ron Gable is the president and senior consultant for APC Corporate Strategies Inc. For 25 years Ron has been guiding strategic plan development and implementation teams for small and medium sized businesses. He has worked with companies across Canada, the USA and overseas. As well, he has acted in a variety of executive positions to guide client-companies through the minefields of transition or expansion. His consulting group, APC Corporate Strategies, specializes in the creation/acquisition of satellite operations as a fast growth tactic for companies to advance brand recognition, enhance market share, gain economies of scale, and solidify distribution channels. He is a first rate facilitator with an expertise in guiding sustainable expansion. <More>

Heidi Crux

Heidi Crux, Director, University Teacher, Consultant, Trainer and author of “Soft Skills for Speaking Success” focuses her attention on your performance. Her clients, ranging from non-profit organizations to worldwide corporations have all realized an instant ROI in employee performance shortly after one of Heidi’s training sessions. <More>

Russ Lombardo

Russ Lombardo has over three decades in the high-tech industry in a variety of sales, marketing and technical positions. Since 1994, he worked for major CRM vendors, such as GoldMine Software and SalesLogix, as a successful sales executive. As the former Director of North American Sales for GoldMine, Russ built and managed large sales teams that included inside and outside sales organizations. He designed and implemented sales and CRM processes using the latest technologies and has worked with hundreds of companies on their sales processes. <More>

Rick McCutcheon

Rick McCutcheon is the creator of the Full Contact Selling System. Since 1990 Rick has been a leading strategist, facilitator and writer on Strategic Business Development.

Rick has delivered Educational Workshops and Keynote Speeches for thousands of business professionals from a cross-section of industries, ranging from Home Office Entrepreneurs to Corporate Senior Executives. These sessions have been sponsored by the Canadian Professional Sales Association, Microsoft Canada, and York University Schulich School of Business (as part of their Certificate Course in Sales Management). He currently teaches Sales Process and CRM Best Practices as part of the Technology Sales Program at Communitech in Association with Laurier University.

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