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Management
Ryan Hardy
President & CEO
Ryan is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Perk Labs. Ryan Co-founded Getit Technologies with his business partner, Ben Lacroix, in 2020 and has been running the technology start-up for the past three years while raising millions in capital. Ryan is a passionate and driven leader with proven experience across multiple industries, including – hospitality & tourism, food & beverage, staffing & recruiting, and advertising. For the past 15 years, Ryan has managed teams and run operations focusing on sales, marketing, and ops.
Benoit Lacroix
Chief Development Officer
Ben Lacroix is the Chief Development Officer of Perk Labs. Ben Co-founded Getit Technologies with his business partner, Ryan Hardy, in 2020 – in late 2019, he was the spark to create the business and engage Ryan Hardy. Ben is a focused and strategic sales leader with a history of generating business, partnerships, and raising capital. With Ben‘s strategic mindset and drive for sales, partnerships, and M&A results, he will lead the company’s business development and partnership initiatives as we continue to grow.
Andrew Bailes
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Bailes, CPA, is the CFO for Perk Labs. He has extensive experience in IT, Telecoms, Logistics, manufacturing and other sectors, managing finance and Legal, HR and Operational functions. Andrew did his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Management Studies at Cambridge University in the UK and was top in his Executive MBA at Cornell and Queens.
Directors
Mr. Herrington is currently CEO of mPloy Solutions Inc. He is also acting COO and CTO with Connect2Classes. He is not a director of any other publicly traded companies.
With 35 years of experience in computer software technology and business strategy, Mr. Herrington is a serial entrepreneur who brings significant expertise to the Board of Directors.
His business experience is well suited to the Company’s needs and includes experience at Internet Pipeline Inc. and GaleForce Solutions Inc. with Software as a Service (“SaaS”), Perk Labs’ technology category.
Mr. Herrington has co-founded five closely-held software companies, of which four have been acquired.
Ryan is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Perk Labs. Ryan Co-founded Getit Technologies with his business partner, Ben Lacroix, in 2020 and has been running the technology start-up for the past three years while raising millions in capital. Ryan is a passionate and driven leader with proven experience across multiple industries, including – hospitality & tourism, food & beverage, staffing & recruiting, and advertising. For the past 15 years, Ryan has managed teams and run operations focusing on sales, marketing, and ops.
Ben Lacroix is the Chief Development Officer of Perk Labs. Ben Co-founded Getit Technologies with his business partner, Ryan Hardy, in 2020 – in late 2019, he was the spark to create the business and engage Ryan Hardy. Ben is a focused and strategic sales leader with a history of generating business, partnerships, and raising capital. With Ben’s strategic mindset and drive for sales, partnerships, and M&A results, he will lead the company’s business development and partnership initiatives as we continue to grow.
Mr. Timlick is President of Triplet Management, a private company, and is a director of two publicly traded companies other than the Company.
His career of more than 30 years from 1985 to 2016 was focused on technology sales and sales management, except for a brief break between 2005 and 2008 when he focused primarily on corporate planning for a real estate investment company. During his career he received numerous awards from his employers for his exceptional personal effort and developed specific experience in SaaS, Perk Labs’ technology category.
Board of Advisors
Gary Zhang
Gary is a SaaS veteran and expert on digital transformation with 20+ years industry experience. Gary has a computer science degree from TianJin University, one of the top technical universities in China, and has been in the technology industry for 20+ years. Along his career path, Gary has worked in technical leadership positions at many Fortune 500 companies and has been a founding member of several successful software start-ups. Since 2010, Gary has been operating his own Software as a Service (“SaaS”) consulting company to help his clients build solid SaaS products, operate profitable SaaS businesses and complete successful digital transformations.
Lewisa Anciano
Lewisa advises the Company on Human Resources strategy. Lewisa previously served as Perk Labs’ Chief People and Culture Officer. Prior to that, Lewisa led the human resources function as Vice-President, People at Coast Capital Savings, identified as having one of Canada’s most admired corporate cultures. Recipient of the 2015 CPHR Human Resource Professional of the Year Award, Lewisa has enjoyed a multi-faceted career beyond HR with other award-winning organizations, in the areas of strategic planning, innovation management, corporate communications, organizational effectiveness, process transformations, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Lewisa holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and a Masters in Organizational Management.
Neil Crist
Neil Crist advises the Company on product development and on its strategy to enter the US market. Mr. Crist’s most notable business successes was as the founder and CEO of Venuelabs, a location-based analytics company, based in Seattle, Washington, that was acquired by Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN) in 2015. Mr. Crist has most recently partnered with Peter Rex as Director of Product for a new technology business that is revolutionizing the real estate maintenance space. Mr. Crist formerly held senior roles at Moz and Groupon. At Moz, Mr. Crist served as the Head of Product, Design & Engineering where he was responsible for the company’s total product portfolio producing over $50M in annual recurring revenue, with double digit year over year revenue growth.
Paola Ashton
Paola Ashton advises the Company on sales and client retention. Paola previously served as the Company’s VP of Business Development. Paola has 16 years of client management and sales experience for startup and digital media companies where she has overseen teams of up to 25 people, generating more than $15 million per year in revenues. She previously served as a VP of Sales for Agency Media, VP of Sales at Blink Media Works, Director of Sales for Chalk Media & VP of David Chalk Inc. until it was purchased by Research In Motion (Blackberry).
Daniel Zou
Daniel Zou advises the Company on mobile business growth, strategic partnerships, and enterprise merchant expansion strategies. He previously served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer. He was formerly the Head of Business Development for Alipay Canada, the Canadian division of Alibaba Groups. While working with Alipay, he was instrumental in the growth of their product design, business development and numerous cross functional collaborations. Prior to Alipay Canada, Daniel was the Director, Innovation and Operations of the Ant Group, a technology company focused on bringing inclusive financial services worldwide and the parent company of Alipay.