Operators Who Build.
Our work isn’t bounded by industry. Any one discipline travels anywhere on its own. The convergence is the rare part, and where our name comes from. Still, there are a few worlds we’ve operated in deeply rather than studied from the outside, and that lived experience shortens the distance to results.
$700M → $23.5B
Financial technology
Regulated environments punish guesswork. Every number has to reconcile, every decision has to survive audit, and trust is the product. We’ve scaled a lender from $700M to $23.5B, architected transaction platforms processing billions annually across Canada’s largest financial institutions, and designed the wealth and private banking experiences behind Fidelity, Scotiabank, and HSBC — including the suite managing tens of billions in assets that won the business of two Schedule I banks.
Four global network agencies
Consumer brands
People don’t experience your brand, your interface, and your service as three departments, so we don’t build them that way. Brand platforms and campaign strategy across luxury automotive, quick service, and packaged goods. Consumer experiences for Air Miles, Bell, Virgin, LG, Scotiabank, and The Weather Network. Adoption, not just deployment.
$500M+
Nonprofit and social impact
The constraint is rarely the mission. It’s capacity — every function running lean, and every dollar accountable to someone. We’ve run all of them inside World Vision, one of the world’s largest charities: operations, finance, product, technology, marketing and brand, programs, governance, and fundraising. Revenue past $500M, and the transparency platform that processes it.
These are where we go deepest. The method travels anywhere.
Twenty disciplines we have run
Five areas we lead, and a network that covers the rest.
Strategy, M&A, and Operations
Grew a lender from $700M to $23.5B and scaled the team from 400 to 8,000. Former COO of Canada’s largest private relief organization.
Sumair Mirza
Finance and Nonprofit Governance
Stewarded the $15M funding behind an enterprise digital transformation, and moved a contact centre onto AI telephony for 50% cost savings.
Anita Tong
Impact and Product
Owned product vision for a $500M+ portfolio and pioneered its first impact investing offering. Started in the field on UN food-security contracts.
Josh Folkema
Design and Product
Designed experiences for Fidelity, Scotiabank, HSBC, Bell, and Telus. Twenty years of design leadership rooted in Teehan+Lax.
Peter Hui
Digital and Technology
Twenty-five years building enterprise systems at Symcor and IFDS, processing billions of transactions annually.
Selby Mong
Beyond the five, the network
Operators we have worked with for years. The bench goes deeper than the five, held to the same standard.
So we built 
to do it differently.
We don’t hand you a deck and leave. And we don’t stop until it works.
01
Outcomes over outputs
We measure success by what changes in your business, not what we deliver.
02
Advice we can deliver ourselves
We’ve spent decades operating, not consulting. If we can’t build it, we don’t recommend it.
03
Understand the whole picture
AI fails when it ignores business model, operating model, or culture. We’ve led inside all three.