Thomas Purves

Current

• Independent Consultant at a global payments brand
• Co-founder at Firestoker

Past

• Group Manager Strategies and Channels, Commercial Banking at CIBC
• Group Manager, New Product Development at CIBC
• Manager of Product Development at CertaPay

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Education

• University of Toronto
• Queen's University

Connections

329 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Thomas Purves’s Summary

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see my blog: http://thomaspurves.com

Thomas Purves’s Specialties:

Product development, Business Development, User Experience and Interface Design, Finance, Corporate Strategy, Electronic Payments, Card Products, Internet security, mobile, m-commerce, wireless, contactless, NFC, payments, banking, retail banking, electronic channels, new media, social media, communities, web2.0, Enterprise 2.0, policy, money transfer, remittances

Additional Information

Thomas Purves’s Websites:

• My Website

Thomas Purves’s Interests:

technology, social media, social presence, blogging, Enterprise2.0, financial markets, competitive sailing, wireless, mobile, digital content, barcamps, tech conferences,

Thomas Purves’s Groups:

TorCamp
BarCamp
StartupNorth.ca
Queen's Alumi Association
UofT Alumi Association
IEEE, LIFT

•    Rotman MBAs (University of Toronto)
•    MobileMonday
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    Economist Group
•    Private Equity Investment Group
•    Marketing 2.0 Technology
•    Semantic Web
•    Cloud Computing
•    ProductCampToronto

Thomas Purves’s Honors:

Ford Canada Award for Integrative Management. President of winning team, class of 2005 Business Competition, Rotman Business School
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news/detail.asp?ID=130

Founder of Mitumi Inc., Winning business plan at Queen’s 2004 International Venture Capital Competitionhttp://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news/detail.asp?ID=69