Loren Hicks

Current

• Facilitator at York University - Schulich School of Business - SEEC
• Principal at Independent Consulting

Past

• Chief Information Officer at Lavalife
• Managing Director at Xeye
• Vice-President, Consulting Services at CGI

• Director, Market Systems Development at TSX

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Education

• McGill University
• McGill University

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Industry

Management Consulting

Loren Hicks’s Summary

I’m a senior businessperson, IT executive and large-scale project manager with proven success in difficult situations. A specialist in getting results quickly while transforming organizations to build capability for continued performance. A relationship builder inside and outside the organization. An innovative thinker always looking for ways to grow business, increase profits, and reduce costs while prudently measuring and managing risk. Recognized as one of Canada’s top project managers.

I’m currently working with a second-stage ecommerce firm to expand their offering, and a well established firm seeking to rationalize their global IT. I am always open to discussing new opportunities, as long as they are challenging. Whether restructuring to meet new realities and goals, recovering a struggling project or organization, getting hard decisions made and implemented, or realizing an innovation to capture new markets, it is the challenge I welcome.

Loren Hicks’s Specialties:

Business knowledge across many verticals - eCommerce, manufacturing, securities, transportation, banking, insurance, leisure, and more. Specialist in project recovery - bringing new thinking and discipline to make faltering initiatives deliver. Solid knowledge of streamlining businesses processes, from marketing through fulfillment. Lots of experience in strategy processes, technology management, and technology organization management. Solid salesperson, and manager and coach of salespeople.

Loren Hicks’s Experience

• Facilitator

  York University - Schulich School of Business - SEEC

  (Higher Education industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  Developing and teaching courses in the Executive Education Centre on Enterprise Architecture, and developing others. Part - time. Consulting is still my main focus.

• Principal

  Independent Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  Management consulting, focussed on strategic change, especially for firms dependent on technology,or needing to exploit internet and new media. Also specialized assistance to due diligence and other M&A teams. Can assemble and manages teams from senior to junior to carry out critical initiatives, across all business functions - marketing, sales, back office, technology.

• Chief Information Officer

  Lavalife

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2001 — February 2007 (5 years 5 months)

  Team of 70 at peak. High-volume very low cost leading edge ecommerce.

• Managing Director

  Xeye

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

  Built and ran the consulting arm of this best-in-field wealth management software firm. Grew from 3 to 50 consultants. Full top and bottom line accountability.

• Vice-President, Consulting Services

  CGI

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GIB; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1993 — 1997 (4 years )

  Started Securities industry practice in Toronto from scratch to build Ontario Financial Services practice of 50+. Full top and bottom line accountability.

• Director, Market Systems Development

  TSX

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Capital Markets industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years )

  Team of 70 at peak, accountable for all floor and desk trading and market information applications.

Loren Hicks’s Education

• McGill University

  DCS , Economics

• McGill University

  B. Comm. , Finance and MIS

  (W.G.D.)

Additional Information

Loren Hicks’s Groups:

•    DMR Consulting Alumni
•    Official McGill BCom Alumni - Desautels Faculty of Management
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    TSX Alumni (Toronto Stock Exchange or TSE or TMX)
•    High-Tech / IT Professionals GTA
•    CIOs & CTOs in Canada - Official IBM Canada Web Site
•    Social-development.org - a call for ideas
•    Write On, Networkers!
•    Education & Training

Loren Hicks’s Honors:

CIPA Silver Award of Excellence for Innovation - 2006 - Lavalife - VoIP Project - as CIO
CIPA Best of Category - eCommerce - 1999 - RBC Dominion Securities - DealSecure FX - as Project Manager
Information Technology Excellence Award - Project of the year - 1999 - RBC Dominion Securities - DealSecure FX - as Project Manager

Loren Hicks’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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