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Jaz is a CPA and holds Executive MBA’s from both Cornell University (NY) & Queen’s University (ON). Jaz has progressive finance and accounting experience, beginning in event management (Peak Potentials Training) and progressing to real estate, both commercial (Bentall Kennedy) & non-profit social housing (Atira). In 2009, Jaz entered the high-tech start-up space with her work at a pioneering user-generated social site, NowPublic.com, which was successfully acquired by Anschutz Corporation.

Thereafter, Jaz began consulting independently and has worked with several firms in executive-level roles. This includes her work at New Summit Partners on closing one of the largest real estate deals in Saskatoon’s history ($300M+, over 1,000 units) and helping scale a new property management enterprise (Block1 Property Management), including international cloud ERP implementation (Yardi Voyager 7s). Jaz also looked after a reporting portfolio for Cisask Construction. Jaz then consulted as Director of Finance for Neurio Technologies (a key clean-tech partner of Tesla) & VP Finance for Ayogo Health (a digital health-tech start-up backed by Merck). Her experience includes setting up internal control frameworks, building out business processes and systems for scalability, long-term planning and strategy, corporate development, M&A work, and arranging financing (grants, IRAP, SR&ED, other tax credits, convertible notes, equity raise).

Jaz is an active community leader as a board member at Quest Outreach Society – a social enterprise with a mission to reduce hunger with dignity. Jaz also is a guest lecturer at SFU (Foundations for Collaborative Work Environments) and has a passion for continual learning & development. She is a business mentor in partnership with SFU Beedie School of Business, Young Women in Business, and S.U.C.C.E.S.S career mentoring for new immigrants to Canada.

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Michelle is an extremely dedicated and accomplished CPHR and CPA, CMA. She also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Thompson Rivers University. Michelle began her career working in both municipal and provincial government, where she learned the importance of policies, procedures, and financial controls.

In 2012 Michelle then used the skills she had learned in government to start her own business in Victoria as contract controller for several not-for-profits, and business solutions for small businesses, combining her knowledge and skills in both accounting and HR.

In 2015 Michelle moved to Vancouver to take an opportunity as a Controller for 3 Tier Logic (3TL), a publicly traded tech company on the TSX Venture. Working with 3TL Michelle was able to cut their cost to a quarter, by streamlining and templating process, contract renegotiations, and eliminating duplicate costs. During her time with 3TL she also listed them on the OTCQB and worked with additional start up companies building financial models for them to raise funds.

Michelle’s unique skill set of business systems, accounting, and HR, enabled her to adapt her skills to work in many industries. She has worked as a contract controller for a plastics manufacturing company (Precision Injection Molding), a flooring company with both Canadian and US entities, an international not-for-profit, a cannabis start-up (Flower & Freedom), a janitorial company, a native band, and was a Managing Director for a public accounting firm (SFH Accounting).