Hi. I'm Brent.

I love the challenge of crafting the right message and delivering it to the right audience with the right tools. I live to solve problems no matter how big or small. I earned my stripes in the automotive industry in both B2C retail and B2B enterprise environments.  

What gets me up in the morning: 

• Branding strategy

• Team leadership and mentoring

• Traditional OOH advertising

• SEM and SEO tactics and digital strategy

• MarTech stack development and management

• Operational Budget Management

• Project management

• Product marketing - commercialization

• 1999 - Moved from Kingston to London, Ontario

• 2001 - Began managing at a local nightclub - had my first taste of event marketing and was but for a night the bodyguard for Busta Rhymes and Black Eyed Peas

• 2008 - Graduated with Honours - University of Western Ontario

• 2010 - Joined a dealer group in a marketing operations role that included a brand name Ford store, a subprime leasing store and used car division

• 2012 - Successfully transitioned a top ranked site to a modern CMS (Drupal) while improving rankings

• 2013 - Project managed the construction of a new showroom on time and within our $750k budget

• 2014 - Couch to half marathon in 90 days - under 2hr finish time, Project managed the construction of another new showroom on time and within $3m+ budget

• 2016 - Joined the folks at CARPROOF as Marketing Manager - Automotive Sales

• 2017 - First trip to Algonquin with the fam, spoke to industry peers about the future of retail auto sales at DealerTalkX

• 2018 - Moved to Toronto, Ontario and teamed up with the fine folks at MMB Networks as their new Marketing Communications Manager

• 2022 - Joined Amazon to lead Developer Marketing for Alexa