General Manager, Ideal Security
I joined a 60-year-old family business and led it through evolution and reinvention to a strategic acquisition. Now I'm running the next chapter inside a public company.
We import storm door hardware from Asia and sell across North America through retail, wholesale, and Amazon. Offices in Montreal, warehouse in Ontario, and a distributed team.
The work right now is integration: what stays ours, what we hand off, and what capabilities we can bring to the larger organization.
Operations and Strategy
Operations means making sure the machine keeps running... and always running better. But leverage is at the system level: Connecting strategy to execution by creating processes that are repeatable and efficient; aligning teams that don't naturally speak the same language; solving problems that no single department owns.
Clarity, coordination, accountability, momentum.
- Business transformation: Led a family company through evolution and reinvention, positioning it for strategic acquisition.
- Workflow systems: Implemented Asana and GTD to support team rhythms—reliable, repeatable, and able to run without me.
- Org restructure: Transitioned legacy staff, hired new talent, redefined roles, shifted from administration-heavy to a modern sales and marketing structure.
- Operational infrastructure: Integrated ERP, reporting, workflows, and automation for clarity and cross-team alignment.
- Cross-border trade: Managed tariffs, duty recovery, and customs compliance.
- New category launches: Tested market fit, drove learning through both wins and losses.
Notable work: A Study of Federal Support to the Fossil Fuel Sector.
I live in Montreal with my wife Dara and our two kids.
Training is how I think. Climbing, running, ski touring, meditation. It's not hobby, it's practice. It's building.
I'm most energized by problems that sit between departments, between strategy and execution, between "we should" and "we did."
If you want to talk, I'm easy to reach.