FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Private Start-ups and Public Enterprise at Home and Abroad
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Created and led innovative multinational enterprises. Profitable startups include $100 M programs and portfolios:
Managing Partner, Jazz Wines™
[7 Years]
Co-founder and producer of jazzwines.com and The Shiraz a multi-sourced wine made with the Wine Maker of the Year in Australia.
Fund Advisor, iTrust™ Partners
[5 years]
Minority owner in Cayman manager of income investments in Canadian equity funds for Gulf State investors.
Publisher - iTrust Report
[8 Years]
Developer and owner, operator subscription-based equity investment management program, proprietary market information system, and model portfolio featuring a patent-pending methodology for meaningful valuation.
Founding Director
Virgin Food & Beverage Japan
[1995]
Co-led team of two with Richard Branson and used a partnership strategy to establish a 3% market share in Year 1, positive net ROI, and consumer value by breaking a market monopoly.
Managing Director
Cott Beverages International
[2 Years]
Barbados - Wrote the Asian business plan and turned it into an immediately profitable business, sourcing and launching the first premium store brand in Japan for the second largest grocer, Ito Yokado.
VP Strategy
Retail Brands International [1993]
Unit of Cott Corporation. Created premium brands for five dozen retailers in Year 1. Also produced a Market Intelligence System for our parent company, Cott, its retail clients and their suppliers;
Senior Associate
Don Watt & Associates
Toronto [5 Years]
Led research, strategic and graphic design, and the introduction of leading brands and market-changing programs
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Created and implemented ideal store models still in use for LCBO and L’Oreal Paris;
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Led initial development of premium quality retail brands for six dozen retailers including President’s Choice™ and the first Green™ product lines for Loblaw stores as well as the Sam’s American Choice ™ for Wal-Mart, and Select™ for 7-Eleven USA;
Partner
NeoSimplicity Inc, Toronto
[8 Years]
Produced educational media and materials for the banking industry and academia. Publisher of QuitKit™, a top-selling smoking cessation publication.
Program Manager
Manifest Communications:
Toronto [4 Years]
Health and policy promotion strategy and programs for government, public and private groups.
Importer & DIstributor
Kenyan Kiondo Bags [2 Years]
Assistant Producer &
Pre-Production Accountant
Commercial Video & Feature Film
[1982 – 1983]
Teaching Assistant – Management Accounting
Ivey School of Business, London
[1 Year - 1980-1981]
Employed During High School
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Assistant Accountant
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Duty Free Sales Services
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Retail Salesperson
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Waitress
CREATIVE SPIRIT: CARING CITIZEN
Cultivating Conscious Creativity in Connected Society. Award-winning photographer, science communicator, documentary and mixed media maker.
HEART-CENTRED HEALER
Aim: Improve Health-Span, Informed Choice and Quality of Life. Expert in Full-spectrum Person-Centred Health Policy, Programs & medical confounders.
CRITICAL WHOLE SYSTEMS THINKER
Independent Investigator & Advisor. Focused on solving the Wealth-Health Paradox and ontological gaps in XAI and BioMedicine. Enable meaningful data integration, evidence standardization, option creation, and mediation. Ground info in Principles of Total Evidence and Fallacy-Free Multi-Perspective Realism.
Years as a Research Fellow in a doctoral program. Deferred a degree to deliver confidential studies revealing effective health strategies to clients, their doctors, and researchers. Hold MSc in Integrative Health Sciences from the EU Inter-Uni College of Health and Development. Honors Business Administration, HBA, Ivey School of Business, U of Western.
Proven Pathfinder. Skilled in Whole Systems Health Sciences, Strategic Design, Analysis & Modeling beyond the Box. Founder. Friend, and Mentor.
EXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR
Founder and Managing Director of game-changing and ground-breaking businesses at home and abroad.
(c) Leslie Hayman, 1995-2026