My Career Cred.

I am passionate about building and elevating high-performance companies and teams to unprecedented levels of success. Boasting a wealth of executive experience across a spectrum of venture-backed software and hardware enterprises in diverse sectors and stages, I have not only played pivotal roles in orchestrating over $1 billion in corporate transactions—including IPOs, acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, and fundraising efforts—but I also masterfully scaled these companies and teams during critical phases of growth and expansion.

My passion for building companies and fostering cohesive teams was ignited at the outset of my career when I had the privilege of being the first non-founding employee of DHX Media Ltd. (now WildBrain), a leader in the creation, production and licensing of family entertainment rights. I was instrumental in the company's rapid growth, guiding its evolution from a private entity to a public powerhouse with a valuation surpassing $1 billion through a growth by acquisition strategy. I transitioned the company and subsequent acquisitions from privately held to public, completed six acquisitions and was the main point for evaluation, due diligence, post-acquisition integration and my leadership was crucial in navigating the companies' teams and internal operations through multiple phases of exponential growth. While at DHX Media, I completed my CMA and MBA.

During my tenure at BlackBerry, I revolutionized partnership approaches with an innovative model that attracted leading mobile gaming companies and served as a trusted advisor to the COO for BlackBerry’s first deeply integrated revenue-generating acquisition, showcasing her unique strategic insight.

At Innovacorp (now Invest Nova Scotia), I helmed the IT venture capital fund and all aspects of investment review, approval, closing cycle and subsequent board of director roles. My hands-on approach and board leadership across over a dozen IT and cleantech portfolio companies helped to accelerate their growth, scaling, and follow-on financing. 

As COO of Spring Loaded Technology, I led the company from an engineer-built prototype to an in-market, repeatable product built on-demand by production technicians and orchestrated a transformative production overhaul, reducing order lead times from six months to a mere five days. My visionary leadership not only fostered pivotal partnerships but also culminated in the seamless transition of a management team poised for sustained success post-my tenure. 

As CEO of npm, Inc., the largest repository of JavaScript code, I led the company through major organizational challenges and changes, realigned the company, and continued to meaningfully grow ARR YoY despite significant challenges. I ultimately led the sale of the company to GitHub. Post acquisition, I joined GitHub where I subsequently ensured the seamless integration of npm, demonstrating my commitment to both organizational success and employee well-being.

Post-GitHub, I have emerged as the quintessential strategic advisor for CEOs, boards of directors, and investors facing critical junctures in their businesses - typically around teams, growth, turnaround and exit. Specializing in navigating complexity and uncertainty, I devise and implement transformative strategies that propel companies toward their desired trajectories. My unparalleled ability to quickly assimilate into diverse environments, assess situations and people, and formulate innovative strategies underscores my status as an adaptive and astute entrepreneur and advisor, revered for my direct, but heart-centered approach to leadership, growth, and corporate evolution.