Current
  • Founder at nModus
  • Founder at TravelGator
  • Consultant at Credit Suisse
Past
  • Managing Partner and Founder at Akina
  • Senior Vice President at Virtusa
  • Director at Sapient
  • IT Manager at Douglas Power Equipment
Education
  • University of Waterloo
  • University of Waterloo
Connections
350 connections
Industry
Financial Services
Websites

Christopher DeBrusk’s Summary

I have significant experience in growing technology based companies and providing technical and business consulting services to large corporations and financial institutions.

Currently, I am currently consulting and working on a couple of startups.


Christopher DeBrusk’s Experience

  • Founder

    nModus

    (Financial Services industry)

    July 2008Present (4 months)

    nModus is a startup in the financial services software space. More to come as we launch our product.

  • Founder

    TravelGator

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2005Present (3 years 9 months)

    TravelGator (www.travelgator.com) was designed to help travelers not only with the practical aspects of planning a vacation, but also the fun parts - looking for ideas, putting together different possible itineraries, discussing plans with friends and family, and sharing tips, photos and stories from past travels. The site provides easy-to-use planning tools that allow travelers to build and share possible itineraries as they explore ideas on where to go for their next vacation. Travelers can browse destinations, recommendations and stories posted by other travelers, and save anything of interest in their personal travel planner.

  • Consultant

    Credit Suisse

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CS; Banking industry)

    September 2003Present (5 years 2 months)

    I provide consulting services to the Compliance Department in the areas of application, process and data strategy.

  • Managing Partner and Founder

    Akina

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    April 2001January 2007 (5 years 10 months)

    Akina is a business consulting, training and research firm focused on helping customers solve sales and marketing challenges through the delivery of both traditional strategy and business consulting services as well as custom training and research leveraging our proprietary frameworks.

  • Senior Vice President

    Virtusa

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRTU; Computer Software industry)

    March 2002August 2003 (1 year 6 months)

    While with Virtusa, I had responsibility for the global consulting delivery organization and all client project activities.

  • Director

    Sapient

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SAPE; Management Consulting industry)

    January 1996February 2001 (5 years 2 months)

    As an early employee of Sapient, I participated as part of the management team in growing the organization from less than 200 employees to over 3200 and providing consulting services to large global corporations.

    Specifically I launched the Internet Consulting practice in 1997 and the Business Consulting practice in 1998. I was also a member of the management team for the Financial Services business unit.

  • IT Manager

    Douglas Power Equipment

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    April 1994November 1995 (1 year 8 months)


Christopher DeBrusk’s Education

  • University of Waterloo

    B.A., Philosophy and Law, August 1991April 1995

  • University of Waterloo

    B.A.Sc, Systems Design Engineering, 19891994

    Activities and Societies:
    Engineering Society
    Editor, Engineering Newspaper (http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/)

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