Alan Wunsche, MBA, CA

Current

Founder at InnovateToronto.ca
Member of Board of Directors, Treasurer, Chair Strategic Planning Committee at Toronto Children's Chorus

Past

Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations Consulting (Finance and Performance Management) at Deloitte Inc. (Canada)
President & CEO at Leading Knowledge Ltd. - Innovation Management Consultants
Founder at Knowledge ROI Study - Partnership with Richard Ivey School of Business

Executive in Residence at Innovations Foundations Exceler@tor (Technology Incubator)
Vice-President at Itemus
Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

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Education

Canadian Securities Institute
The University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business
University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario
Darden School of Business

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Alan Wunsche, MBA, CA’s Summary

Alan has over 18 years in selling and delivering professional services in finance, marketing and corporate strategy, organizational restructuring, value-based management, business process design, change management and executive facilitation. Alan was recently a Senior Manager in the Strategy & Operations Consulting practice of Deloitte in Toronto with a focus on Finance & Performance Management. His broad industry experience includes energy & resources, consumer business, financial services, technology and transportation.

As the practice lead for Deloitte’s Business Performance Management service offering, Alan specialized in designing and implementing corporate strategic planning, financial budgeting, forecasting and data analytics solutions. Alan led significant business performance management projects which included design and hands-on implementation of performance management processes, performance measurement scorecards, technology solutions and organizational design as part of finance function transformations.
 
Prior to Deloitte, Alan was a Principal Consultant in the Strategic Change practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He led the Value-Based Management Centre of Excellence, managed PwC’s Financial Management Benchmarking and Best Practices studies and led the e-Business practice. He practiced for several years with the organizational change group and honed his change management expertise. Alan helped establish PwC’s Global Knowledge Center, was a certified learning facilitator, and trained management consultants across North America on consulting methodology.

Alan also founded his own management consultancy, advising organizations both small and large on marketing strategy, innovation management and business planning and was Executive in Residence advisor to the University of Toronto Exceler@tor (pre-MaRS) technology incubator.

Alan Wunsche, MBA, CA’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning and Facilitation; Business Performance Management, Change Management; Project Leadership; Executive Development and Organizational Learning.

Knowledge Economy Leadership: Innovation Process Engineering, IT Project Management, Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management, Value Creation Management.

Chartered Accountant and former Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting.

Alan Wunsche, MBA, CA’s Experience

Founder

InnovateToronto.ca

(Management Consulting industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

InnovateToronto.ca is mapping Toronto's innovators. This is a non-profit project in support of Toronto's innovation agenda, including Invest Toronto.
Member of Board of Directors, Treasurer, Chair Strategic Planning Committee

Toronto Children's Chorus

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

http://www.torontochildrenschorus.com

* Member of Board of Directors
* Treasurer
* Chair, Strategic Planning Committee
* Member, Marketing Communications Committee
Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations Consulting (Finance and Performance Management)

Deloitte Inc. (Canada)

(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

June 2006 — August 2009 (3 years 3 months)

Finance & Performance Management consultant leading and delivering finance management transformation programs, including value-based management and technology-enabled business performance management. My leadership of Finance transformation includes organizational change management.
President & CEO

Leading Knowledge Ltd. - Innovation Management Consultants

(Management Consulting industry)

October 2001 — June 2006 (4 years 9 months)

• Provided senior strategic management and project leadership services in marketing, solutions selling, and financial planning to technology-based companies

Selected high impact engagements:
• Partner relationship management strategy for global software manufacturer
• Project leadership services focused on developing and implementing growth strategy based on new Solutions Marketing and Solutions Selling processes for enterprise customers of a Canadian telecom company; developed CRM portal for effective Marketing and Sales information sharing and collaboration; developed full business case
• Co-authored with the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants: “Innovation Measurement and Reporting in the Context of Value Creation” and Customer Capital Measurement and Reporting in the Context of Value Creation. Reviewed innovation practices and management’s disclosure of 96 global companies across 3 industry sectors. (2003-2004)
• Speaker and author on Innovation Management practices
Founder

Knowledge ROI Study - Partnership with Richard Ivey School of Business

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

December 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 1 month)

http://www.knowledgeroi.com

The 2004 Knowledge ROI Study quantified the return on knowledge and intellectual capital management initiatives while providing insights to enhancing knowledge worker productivity, the innovation process and organizational performance.
Executive in Residence

Innovations Foundations Exceler@tor (Technology Incubator)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

March 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 8 months)

http://www.excelerator.ca

The Exceler@tor is an information technology and telecommunications (ITC) focused incubator, providing infrastructure, support and professional services to high potential companies who have disruptive or platform technologies. Under the leadership of Innovations Foundation (the University of Toronto's technology commercialization company) activities are supported and encouraged by Ontario's Universities, Industry and all levels of government, Municipal, Provincial and Federal. Its mission is to be a centre for innovation, enabling entrepreneurs to accelerate high potential technology businesses globally, thus having a profound impact on regional wealth creation and Canada's Innovation Agenda.
Vice-President

Itemus

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 2 months)

* Advised on the financial and strategic plans for portfolio companies
* Restructured operations and growth strategy of portfolio company
Principal Consultant

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1991 — August 2000 (9 years )

* Managed Financial Management Benchmarks and Best Practices Study
* Managed SAP implementations for Consumer Packaged Goods client
* Reengineered Financial management and business performance management processes across a variety of industries
* Reengineered supply chain management for global soft drink manufacturer
* Led strategic turnaround of consumer electronics client
* Led Value-based Management Center of Excellence
* Led development of Canadian E-Business practice
* Led global Knowledge Management rollout for Canadian practice
* Certified as Global Management Consulting Instructor

* Performed Audits across variety of industries including manufacturing, telecom, oil and gas

Alan Wunsche, MBA, CA’s Education

Canadian Securities Institute

Canadian Securities Course , 1994
The University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business

Chartered Accountant , 1991 — 1993
University of Western Ontario

MBA , 1989 — 1991
University of Western Ontario

B.Sc. , Chemistry , 1984 — 1988
Darden School of Business

E-Business Executive Education , 1999

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Director, Past Treasurer, Chair Strategic Planning Committee - Toronto Children's Chorus (http://www.torontochildrenschorus.com)
Coach, North Toronto Soccer, TSC

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