With over 25 years of international experience in restructuring manufacturing companies and implementing financial management tools, Neville Joffe founded AME Learning and developed an interactive method of teaching accounting that has since been used by leading corporations and academic institutions around the world. Neville is holds a patent on the unique methodology he developed to teach double entry accounting using interactive learning tools that dramatically improve outcomes for learners. Neville is the author of 5 leading accounting textbooks used by tens of thousands of students each year across 4 continents.
Having served as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and investment professional with leading Private Equity firms in New York, Justin Joffe joined AME Learning to lead the company through growth in corporate and academic markets. Justin graduated with an HBA (summa cum laude, Valedictorian) from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA (magna cum laude) from Harvard Business School.
After spending time with the Boston Consulting Group and Goldman Sachs, Sam Jalees decided to leverage his broad corporate experience in a more entrepreneurial, high-growth enterprise. Sam graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (First-Class Honors) from Queen’s University. Sam’s broad corporate experience is complemented by a global perspective that he has honed through his travels to over 40 countries and a year spent living and working in Asia.
Linda graduated with a specialization in Accounting and Finance from Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto. With experience providing accounting education to non-financial managers, Linda joined AME Learning to lead product development in achieving content and technology innovation. She is passionate about AME’s unique teaching methodology and devotes her time in perfecting AME’s products continuously. In her spare time, Linda enjoys reading and studying the natural life.
Having graduated from Durham College with an advanced diploma in Multimedia Design, Chad has transformed AME’s eLearning content; creating true online learning modules that teach in an interactive and experiential way solidifying AME Learning’s competitive advantage in the publishing market. Chad has been with AME Learning for over 3 years and is always looking for ways to take advantage of technology and use it to its fullest to create the best products on the market.
Robert Kaplan
Professor, Harvard Business School
- Professor, Harvard Business School (1984 to present)
- Dean, Carnegie-Mellon University (1977 to 1983)
- Co-developer of both activity-based costing and the Balanced Scorecard
- Authored or co-authored 14 books, 18 HBR articles, and more than 120 other papers
- Accounting Hall of Fame (2006), Lifetime Contribution Award (AAA 2006, IMA 2008)
- Financial Times 2005 list of Top 25 Business Thinkers; Accenture Institute for Strategic Change 2002 and 2003 Top 50 Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics
- Serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards
Tom Eisenmann
Professor, Harvard Business School
- Professor, Harvard Business School - Studies management challenges in platform-based businesses that exploit network effects
- DBA (98), MBA (83), and BA (79) from Harvard University
- Eleven years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Co-head of McKinsey's Media and Entertainment Practice during the early 1990s
- Member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Student Agencies, the world's largest student-run corporation, and was a Director of OneMain.com, one of the ten largest U.S. Internet Service Providers prior to its acquisition.
Peter Olson
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
- Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
- Harvard College (1972, magna cum laude in History), Harvard Law School (1976, cum laude), Harvard Business School (1976)
- Worked as an attorney for three years, in commercial and investment banking for nine years, and for the international media group Bertelsmann for twenty years; from 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann
- Chairman and CEO of Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher (1998 to 2008)
Bill Fielding, CA
President, Sisma Companies
- President of Sisma Companies, an investment holding company with interests in manufacturing, real estate, land remediation and information technology
- Formerly President and co-founder of IDMD Manufacturing Inc./Array Marketing Group, a global designer and manufacturer of point of purchase displays, merchandising systems and store environments specializing in the prestige luxury market
- Member of YPO; served on the executive for six years most recently as Chairman
- Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors, Crescent School
- Board Member of The Dorchester in New York, and a mentor under the YPO/Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Program
Jeff Parr, CA
Co-CEO and MD, Clairvest Group
- 24+ years providing capital to mid-market companies; Along with Ken Rotman, led the way to the growth and success of Clairvest’s private equity investment business
- Formerly one of three partners managing the Canadian Mezzanine Fund, a successful $48 million private equity limited partnership sponsored by Gordon Capital Corporation
- Held progressive management positions with the mid-market senior and junior debt capital groups of National Bank of Canada and Citibank Canada
- Member of the Board of Directors of Clairvest Group Inc., Casino Marina del Sol, Casino New Brunswick and N-Brook Mortgage Group.
David Sedgwick
Managing Principal, Alliance Pacific Group
- Extensive expertise in negotiating and executing M&A transactions in the manufacturing, real estate and technology sectors, including numerous cross-border transactions.
- Worked for 9 years at Magna International Inc.; responsible for overall management of a variety of technology-related divisions. Included responsibilities for joint venture operations involving partners such as Asea Brown Boveri and NGK of Japan; also responsible for investigating various joint venture, acquisitions and new business opportunities
Keith Harradence
President, Planeta Earth Sciences
- Formerly CEO of NexCycle, an industry leader in North America (NA) and ultimately the second largest glass recycling company, one of the top ten plastic recycling companies and the second largest manager of beverage container deposit systems in NA
- Director of Corporate Development at AGRA Industries Limited, A diversified management company with core businesses in Engineering, Construction, Systems Integration and Resource Recovery and Recycling
- Marketing Co-coordinator at SCI-TEC Instruments, dedicated to the development of remote sensing instrumentation for upper atmospheric research and industrial markets.
- Member of WPO and YPO
Graham McBride, CMA
Former General Partner, VG Partners
- 20+ years of key financial experience
- Formerly Managing Director in the $1.2 billion private investing arm of a Schedule I Canadian bank; built and managed team responsible for $200 million mezzanine fund.
- A principal responsible for originating, structuring and managing subordinated debt financings at a private, $300 million fund company
- Held vital roles responsible for managing debt and capital pools on behalf of pension funds and life insurance firms
Morris Kansun
President, Sierra Building Group
- Founder and President of Sierra Building Group Inc.
- In business since 1985, Sierra Building Group is a residential real estate development company which has developed land in the GTA, Collingwood, Muskoka and Houston, Texas. Sierra Building Group has built over a thousand homes on the lands which it has developed.
- Currently involved in Commercial / Retail investments throughout Ontario and the United States.
