EVIZONE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Founder
Andy is Evizone's Chief Technology Officer. He has over 25 years of executive experience in building software companies; public, private and start-up. Mr. Coutts' strong product management skills combined with his success in the recruitment and development of strong channel partner networks have led to a record of achieving 100% year over year growth several times during his career.
Prior to joining Evizone, Andy served as President at Netsweeper, a SaaS content filtering company, President and CEO at Databeacon (acquired by Cognos) an analytics software company and Chief Operating Officer at Software AG of Canada (acquired by SAGA).
Lise Pilon (CHRA, RCC) recently joined Evizone as Global Director of HR. Lise is a highly qualified HR practitioner with over 35 years' experience with large, medium and small companies, mostly in high-tech and service industries such as Dorma-Kaba (security), Lavalin (engineering) and Pyradia (aeronautic). For five years, she also ran her own career transition consultancy and strategic recruitment firm. Lise holds a Bachelor of Administration/HR and a Certificate in Psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Lise's mandate will be to improve our HR systems and processes and help us build the best team possible.
Michel de Martigny is Evizone's COO. He is a seasoned channel sales, marketing and business development professional as well as being a qualified lawyer (Ontario). For the first part of his career Michel worked with large multinationals managing brand and retail advertising and B-2-C marketing of major consumer brands in Canada. He then went global, spending over 20 years creating and managing B-2-B channel sales and partner programs for Europe and Emerging Markets, mostly in IT. He also helped set up two regional businesses based in Dubai - one professional and the other in in the online digital entertainment industry. His industry experience includes Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer marketing in the areas of IT, Automotive, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, and aviation law. Michel's proven skills and deep understanding of the business, legal and cultural environments across many geographies and industries enable him to confidently take leadership of diverse assignments, identify and manage risk, secure the buy-in of the key stakeholders and partners, and deliver results.
A pioneer in the telecom world since 1984, Christian started his own business, Excel Telecom, in 1986 - which he built to be one of the most successful companies in the interconnect sector. As CEO, Christian was responsible for strategic business development and managing sales - growing the company from four employees in 1986 to 55 employees and 12 agent resellers in the province of Quebec, and then expanding to Toronto and Calgary.His record of achievement and solid reputation in the telecom industry led the company to be nominated for and garner several industry and business awards. In 2016 Christian joined the Evizone Group as CSO ( Chief of Sales) responsible for worldwide sales and business development.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Advisor
- Strategic Advisor to
Rodolfo is the strategic advisor to Evizone's CEO. He is the founding partner at Prospéritas Capital Partners (first VC in Uruguay www.prosperitascp.com) and of Xn Consultores (management consulting firm www.xn-consultores.com) and an active Angel Investor in Uruguay, Brazil and the US. He brought McDonald's to Uruguay as the local partner, successfully developing the brand and its market penetration (1991-2002). During these years, He also was president of the Technology Board for McDonald's Latin America and member of its Advisory Board. Prior to moving to Uruguay, he was Director for Finance and Franchising for McDonald's Corporation in Latin America. Presently he serves and advises in various companies (privately held as well as portfolio companies). He is a board member and prior president of Junior Achievement (Uruguay chapter - DESEM). He belongs to the local Endeavor network of mentors (ex board member of the local and international advisory board), and is a Fulbright Foundation board member. He is a Industrial & Mechanical Engineer (graduated with honors at Purdue University) and has an MSM in International Finance (Krannert School of Business).
Bill is Evizone's Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the boards of HLS Therapeutics, EnerCare and MedGenesis Therapeutix. As CEO Bill led the turnaround of Biovail, Canada's largest public pharmaceutical company, and its subsequent merger to create one of the world's leading specialty pharmaceutical companies.
Prior to joining Biovail, Bill served as Chief Financial Officer of Loblaw Companies Limited ("Loblaw"), Canada's largest food distributor and Bunge Limited ("Bunge"), a U.S.headquartered company in the global agribusiness, fertilizer and food product industries. In 2001 Bill took Bunge public on the NYSE after 200 years as a private company. Prior to joining Bunge, Bill spent ten years in senior financial management at McDonald's Corporation in the U.S. and Brazil.