August 2020

Lisa knows what it means to be in the trenches. She has spent her career honing operations and leading teams in rapidly growing industries. Her expertise and success in new technology startups show that she is a master of solving complex business challenges. Most recently she led the commercialization of a patented extraction technology through acquisition and supported the successful advancement of the first-of-its-kind low carbon biofuel technology.

Lisa has extensive experience in all operational areas including human resources, process and workflow design, supply chain, compliance, finance and R&D. She’s driven to help businesses realize their vision, and knows what it takes to be successful.

As an experienced strategic finance and operations leader, Teresa is passionate about building and growing businesses.  

Working extensively with business leaders to deliver financial clarity, Teresa transforms insights into action.  Her optimist growth-mindset shapes her collaborative approach to problem solving, process optimization and analytics.  With international experience at industry-leading organizations in Vancouver, New York, and London, Teresa is now a CPA contributing to the expanding Tandem Network.

Teresa’s broad corporate experience now serves emerging purpose-led startups at Tandem.  Teresa creates effective financial strategies and scalable operating platforms for organizations in her portfolio. 

Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, cashflow forecasting, financial management, system implementation, process improvement, and talent development.  In her spare time, she enjoys perusing local farmers markets, experimenting with textile design and live theatre.

Teresa’s career highlights:

-Over 15 years of progressive experience across a range of industries

-Partnering with global business leaders on plans for revenue growth and margin expansion

-Planning and implementation of eight system solutions to optimize workflow and data

-Contributing to four founders’ businesses through the finance and accounting lens

Anna is a serial entrepreneur, innovation strategist, and strategic business planning expert with 15+ years of experience in financial planning and budgeting, information systems design and implementation, and emerging technologies.

Anna is a Contract CFO and active affiliate with Tandem Innovation Group. She founded Innovative Strategy Resources, a strategic business management firm helping to create value and confidence-based decision-making, and she is a co-founder/CFO of Thrive Insights, software, and technology company providing cloud-based scenario planning and forecasting tools to small to medium size companies.

Before moving to entrepreneurship at the beginning of 2019, Anna held various senior executive roles in the mining sector’s top tier global companies managing corporate finance and digital transformation projects and for the last two years held a CFO position in the innovation and venture arm of Barrick. Anna possesses fourteen years of financial and strategic planning, modeling and reporting experience, and three years of digital and innovation management experience. Her team created and deployed new entrepreneurial management structure, commercial and enterprise risk management strategy, projects portfolio pipeline management, and evaluation of business cases for Barrick. She has also created partnerships with technology startups, venture funds, accelerators, and incubators.

Anna is a SheEO activator, as well as an active board member of several women-promoting entrepreneurship networks.

She works best in complex, challenging and ambiguous settings. Anna holds Executive Master of Business Management and Administration from Richard Ivey School of Business and Master of Industrial Engineering from American University of Armenia, UCLA affiliate.

Fernanda came from Brazil to pursue her education in Canada. She completed her Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and found a passion for learning along the way. Supporting entrepreneurs in their pursuit of growth and success brought Fernanda her most rewarding moments since joining our team. Fernanda is our Accounts Administrator and Bookkeeper, responsible for our client onboarding, Accounts Payable and Receivable and Payroll.

Fernanda prides herself on her work ethic, analytical skills, and on staying organized. She has an appreciation for the logic of numbers, the smallest details, and any beach she is introduced to.

Outside of the workplace, Fernanda prioritizes her family, friends and her health.

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