Brad has spent the last 20 years working with startups, SMBs, and large enterprises, building organizational structures and teams during periods of rapid growth.
As one of the founding employees of InQuent Technologies / webhosting.com, Brad's team supported Bell Canada, KPN Netherlands, PCCW Hong Kong, and Comcast (US) as the company grew into the largest business hosting provider in the world. InQuent’s purchase by AT&T was the biggest acquisition in Canadian history.
Brad co-founded independent record label Kindling Music, where he developed the company’s operational infrastructure and digital publishing strategy. Distributed by Warner Music Canada, the label’s artists won multiple awards and accolades. Kindling was purchased in 2008 by legendary Canadian manager Jake Gold.
As Sr. Director of IT, Infrastructure, and Security with Wysdom.AI, Brad and his team built the company’s IT infrastructure and a SOC 2 security and compliance program to support Enterprise clients such as Virgin Mobile, Rogers Communications, Scotiabank, Lululemon, and Home Depot.
Brad is the founder of Digital Contractor, a boutique Managed Services and Security Provider supporting startups and clients such as CBC and The Government of Ontario.
Brad is passionate about community and levelling the playing field in politics. He was a founding member of Open Democracy Project's DemocracyKit Initiative (democracykit.org), works with progressive political candidates (currently as Data Lead on Chi Nguyen’s electchi.ca MPP campaign), and has served on the board of multiple community and volunteer groups.