Archives: Team Members

Group Leader & Mentor

A senior global executive; David came to CEO Global Network with extensive general management and board leadership experience in banking, logistics, and the not-for-profit sector.

David’s impressive career has seen him lead businesses in Canada, the United States and Asia Pacific, as well as heading worldwide strategic planning and organizational development for Brink’s, Incorporated, the world’s leading secure logistics company.  During his 15-year tenure, David held a number of Chief Executive Officer positions with Brink’s including Chairman and President of Brink’s Canada Limited and Managing Director of Brink’s Asia Pacific Limited.

Prior to Brink’s, David had a successful career in corporate finance and executive management with two major Canadian banks, latterly as head of the Ontario Division for National Bank of Canada, where he was responsible for over 120 branches and business banking centres. David was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada for seven years, serving as its Vice Chair in 2013 and 2014.

In addition to leading and mentoring a CEO Group, David is also a member of our Global Leadership Training Program (GLTP) faculty where he facilitates leadership training programs for senior executives and high potential managers.

CEOs who have the opportunity to work with David will benefit from the depth and breadth of business knowledge he has gained during his career and his commitment to helping others succeed.

Mentor

An accomplished and celebrated business leader with extensive experience in marketing, sales, strategic planning and leadership development, Randy served as President of Walt Disney Travel Company and EVP of Worldwide Sales and Travel Operations for Disney Destinations for over 20 years. He played a significant role in the largest period of expansion in the history of the Disney Theme Parks and Resorts segment—which grew from $4.5B to $15.1B during his tenure.—and helped create and lead a host of new business ventures for Disney, including the launch and subsequent fleet expansions of Disney Cruise Line, the opening of six new theme parks and 27 new resort hotels, and the development of new international resort destinations in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Randy also led The Disney Institute, which provides training and management consulting services to businesses around the globe.

Before joining Disney, Randy spent almost eight years with Universal Studios where he served as Vice President of Sales at Universal Studios Hollywood before being promoted to the role of Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing for Universal Studios Florida—which he helped to successfully launch and then expand to a destination resort. Previous positions include Regional Vice President of Sales for Royal Viking cruise line and a variety of operations, sales, and marketing roles within TWA.

Randy has deep insight into the powerful changes sweeping the global economy and has helped numerous organizations outside of the travel and tourism sector adapt and transform the way they operate within a changing environment. Consulting engagements have ranged from working with the healthcare industry to reinvent its approach to patient service, helping automotive manufacturers transform their sales and service process, and assisting the National Football League with customer service at multiple Super Bowls.

In recognition of his numerous accomplishments, Randy was inducted into the US Travel Industry Hall of Leaders in 2013, sharing the honor with such notable past inductees as Walt Disney, Isadore Sharp (the founder of Four Seasons Hotels) and Bill Marriott.

Randy currently serves on the Board of Directors for Destination Canada, the U.S. Travel Association, Ardent Leisure, and Rocky Mountaineer—where he chairs the Corporate Governance, Strategy, and Nominating Committee for the world’s largest privately held luxury railroad.

Randy attended UCLA where he studied political science and pre-law.  He and his wife Ann divide their time between homes in Central Florida and Stratford Ontario.

Group Leader and Mentor | Hartford, Connecticut

Joe has over 30 years of senior leadership experience and a demonstrated history of driving top-line growth and improving bottom-line performance through business innovation, productivity improvement, cost reduction and operational optimization. Joe’s expertise includes strategic and tactical planning, service delivery, mergers and acquisitions, process effectiveness, change management and organizational design. Joe is also passionate about building high performance teams with a focus on colleague engagement and talent development.

As Executive Vice President, US Eastern Region for Otis Elevator Company, Joe provided strategic direction and operational oversight for five regional business units with over 3100 employees and annual revenues exceeding $1.3 billion. Over the course of his tenure, Joe grew revenue by 558% (from $240M to $1.34B), increased profitability by 680%, and acquired and integrated over twelve companies. Joe was also committed to growing the people around him and is proud to have personally developed and promoted fifteen executives and over one hundred managers while consistently reducing voluntary attrition across his business units.

In addition to being a member of the Otis Americas Executive Board, Joe was also the recipient of seven Otis Excellence Awards and the 2019 Otis Worldwide Financial Performance Award.

Previously, as Area Vice President & Vice President Marketing, Joe provided strategic direction and operations management for the Atlantic Coast area—a $450M business unit with 1600 employees spread over eight regions—and was a member of Otis World Headquarters Marketing Team. Other positions at Otis included Regional General Manager- New England Region and District Manager.

Joe is now dedicated to helping other business leaders succeed, and his coaching and mentoring style focuses on helping leaders enhance their self-awareness and maximize their potential.

Director of Sales, Digital Media

Most recently, Jace was a Senior Marketing Consultant for Multiview, a digital marketing company headquartered in Irving, TX.  Prior to that he was a Sales Associate at Sherwin-Williams.

He lives in Etobicoke and is a graduate of the Ted Rogers School of Management – Toronto Metropolitan University where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Mentor

Hugh brings a strong record of leadership success to his role as a CEO Global Network Group Leader. He has more than forty years’ experience across a wide range of businesses and industries in Canada, the U.S. and internationally, and has been CEO of three different private and public companies. Hugh now focuses his passion for leadership excellence on his global executive coaching and leadership development work.

Through his own company—Winning Leadership, Inc.—as well as through his association with global leadership organizations KDVI and INSEAD, Hugh shares his experience and expertise with CEOs, senior leaders, and their teams across industries as diverse as banking, airline catering, life insurance, aerospace, entertainment, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.

Earlier in his career, Hugh was CEO of Digital Communications Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded company in the U.S., President of West Coast Video in the U.K., and President of VTR Video Inc. (a media manufacturing subsidiary of Standard Broadcasting Corporation) in Toronto. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at Molson Breweries, ICG Corporation (a vertically integrated energy company), McKim Advertising, and brand and sales manager positions at General Foods Ltd. and Colgate Palmolive (UK).

Hugh is also the Founder and CEO of Tasimba LLC, an organization that leads individuals and groups on deeply immersive, life-changing safaris in a vast, private wilderness teeming with wildlife in his home country of Zimbabwe.

Although Hugh currently lives in California, he retains strong business and family ties to Southern Ontario, with two young granddaughters and their families based in Toronto.

CEOs who have the opportunity to work with Hugh will benefit from the depth and breadth of his experience and his passion for the development of outstanding individual and corporate leadership.

Group Leader & Mentor

Ian has been an important part of CEO Global Network for many years having first joined a Senior Executive Group in 2006.  At the time, he was the Vice President of Operations at Toronto Hydro Telecom. 

Ian became the President of Cogeco Data Services after Toronto Hydro Telecom was sold to Cogeco for $215M in 2008. He was recruited to be the President & COO of Atria Networks, a Birch Hill Equity company in 2009, where he worked closely with John Piercy, Atria’s CEO, to build a very successful company which they sold to Rogers in 2011 for over $400M. He worked with Rogers senior leadership to integrate Atria and left in late 2011 to pursue other opportunities in transitional interim leadership with companies needing to define a new leadership structure and direction.      

He was also the COO of CEO Global Network from 2013 to 2020 before becoming the interim President of Vybbe.

Ian is currently the Owner & President of Claremont Holdings Inc. a company that has helped many CEOs and companies succeed through better strategic planning and execution as well as being a partner in the recently established Clarus Advisory Group with a focus on leveraging his experiences in preparing companies for a sale, merger or acquisition. 

He has been on a number of Boards including Zip Telecom and as Chair of ENVI Networks, assisting both in successful dispositions.  

Ian is a professional engineer (retired) and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from McMaster University and a diploma in business administration from Wilfrid Laurier.

He is an avid golfer and Past President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Oakville Golf Club and is a member of the Board of his community in Ft Myers, Florida.