Timothy Grayson is Senior Advisor, Transaction Mail Strategy, Canada Post Corp. Prior to joining Canada Post, Timothy was the president of an online vacation travel start-up, and ran a strategic planning consultancy during the preceding 10 years with a client list that included financial services, software, consumer goods, and charitable organizations. Timothy adds value by applying unorthodox perspective and critical thought to problems and challenges. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and daughter.

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The Details:

Superior analyst and proven partnership creator. An alliance builder and communicator with 15-years' successful researching, devising, promoting, and implementing of forward-thinking, creative business opportunities and solutions. Accomplished policy, strategy, and business modelling skills particularly in the Internet and eBusiness milieu. Experienced and responsible managerial roles including several start-ups in different industry categories.

Strengths

• Rigorously analytical. Quickly identify key issues and relationships. Creatively develop direction, opportunities, and policies.
• Subject matter expertise: digital identity/credentials; esp. trust, privacy, and security.
• Exceptional written and oral communication and persuasion skills.
• Highly adaptable, tenacious, loyal, and principled.

  Accomplishments

• Prepared over 40 business, new product, marketing, and other strategic plans.
• Created and developed a robust eCommerce search and booking platform for travel, with sustaining business models for both consumer-directed and business-to-business application.
• Wrote a nationally-distributed business reference book entitled Every Canadian's Guide to Common Contracts (HarperCollins, 1999).
• Awarded graduate degree "with distinction" for excellent written quality and high academic achievement.
• Devised, negotiated, and managed a four-party commercial alliance.
• Conceived and implemented a unique niche marketing strategy ("Microfund Company") that contributed to C$26-million funds-in-force in the first 180-days.

  Career Experience

Canada Post Corporation

Vamoos! Inc.

Templar Technologies Inc. t/a Templar Strategies

The Events for Charity Foundation, Ontario

Nygard International

Education

MA, 2000

B.Comm.(Hons), 1987

Executive Leadership Programme, Queen's University Executive Centre, 2002

Effective Negotiating, Karrass Institute, 2001

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