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Registration 		  The facilitators are part-time college professors and have solid business experience.  
       
    Jim Davidson, MA, MBA  
   

Jim Davidson, “The Strategy Guy”, earned an MBA in marketing from the University of Toronto (1995) and an MA in geography from Wilfrid Laurier University (1985). He is the principal of Competitactics, an agile consulting firm that specializes in helping give companies the edge they need to compete. Jim has 17 years of business experience in Competitactics’ core service offerings: customer satisfaction measurement, competitive intelligence, mystery shops, market segmentation and strategic planning.

 

Davidson has designed and implemented customer satisfaction studies and mystery shopping exercises ranging from insurance to fast food, from tourist attractions to home appliances. To stay ahead of the curve, Davidson teaches business mathematics, statistics and market research at Seneca College. In addition, he teaches statistics at George Brown College's CGA accounting program. He is scheduled to teach a market research course at York University in January 2005.

 
 
   
   
         
      Mark Horstman, MBA  
     

Mark Horstman teaches marketing and entrepreneurship at Seneca College, and teaches strategic marketing at York University.  He has consulted to small and medium-sized firms -- providing expertise in business planning and marketing strategy. With a partner, Mark has started up his own company in the textiles industry.  In addition, he has worked in operations management for a large, multi-plant Canadian company.  Mark has an undergraduate degree in business and a MBA from York University’s Schulich School of business (concentration in entrepreneurial studies).

  
         
      Cary Ng, CA, MBA  
      Cary Ng lectures in the areas of Information Technology and Accounting at Seneca College's School of Accounting and Finance. He has held senior financial executive positions, including CFO of companies traded on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Ng has experience in the following industries: telecommunications, computer technology, manufacturing, retail, financial services and health care. Cary's international business experience includes China, Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan; he has a solid record of being adaptable to different cultures and a diversity of individuals.

Ng has secured financing for various companies: 8million (credit facilities) for a Thailand operation and $3million (working capital loans) for operations in China; $2million (trade financing) for a retailer; $70million (credit facilities) for a financial leasing company; and $2million (seed capital) for a software (relational database) development company. And, he effected a reverse take over for the listing of a Chinese equipment manufacturing company (valued at $42million) over-the-counter with CDNX.

  

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