
Mike winterfield
FOUNDER & CEO, ACTIVE IMPACT INVESTMENTS
I've always been pretty good with money and loved making money for myself and others. It was a way to compete and measure success and a way to create independence.After 14 years in various executive roles with high growth, award winning, private companies, I developed a confidence that I was capable of consistently driving results. When I first learned about the concept of conscious capitalism, I fell in love! Positive impact alongside profits. It felt like an opportunity to do what I loved, what I was good at and what was good for the world, with no compromise. I launched Active Impact Investments because I believe there are more people like me out there and we can have a lot of fun doing this together.
HELPING SCALE
- President, Traction Rec (private, bootstrapped) - led the go-to-market launch of a new SaaS product, $3.5M in contracts signed with clients, 21 person team in place, channel partners signed
- COO, Traction on Demand (private, bootstrapped) - part of a team that almost quadrupled revenue from $13M to $45M in three years, launched four sub-brands, expanded into the US, led the acquisition and integration of RevStrong and BigKite
- President, Randstad Professionals (public) - lead the integration of three companies (IT, Engineering and Finance) with combined revenues of $300M
- President, Randstad Engineering (private to public) - lead the integration of three companies (ATS, BBT, Hill McGlynn) with combined revenues of $50M and generated a six-fold increase in profit over two years, fastest profit growth among Canadian portfolio
- VP Western Canada, Sapphire (private, VC backed) - doubled revenue from $35M to $70M in three years, fastest growing region in the company
GIVING BACK
- Board of Directors, DSRF (not-for-profit, volunteer) - Chair of the Compensation Committee, member of the Fundraising Committee, 2015-present
- Co-chair, BC Tech COO Council (not-for-profit, volunteer) - 2015 - 2017
- BCorp - Catalyst for Traction's certification as well as company ambassador and outright evangelist - 2013 - 2017
- BLD - Keynote speaker at the Vancouver conference - 2016
- New Ventures BC - Mentor - 2017
- Founder Institute - Mentor - 2017
- Spring Activator - EIR - 2017
AWARDS
- Top 40 under 40
- Part of two different company's exec teams recognized as Deloitte, Best Managed Company
- Part of two different company's exec teams recognized in top 10 of Canada by Queens/Hewitt, Great Place to Work
INVESTING AND ENTREPRENEUR EXPERIENCE:
- Fuud - Investor and Advisor
- CuePath - Investor and Advisor
- New Mode - Investor and Advisor
- Active Impact Investments - Founder and CEO
- Traction on Demand - ESOP investor with 3X return in two years
- Ion DX - Created terms for Traction to hold the second equity position after Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs
- Binkra - Facilitated terms for Traction to hold the convertible note
- Quadron Cannatech - Pre-IPO investor with 3X return in 12 months
- Oxia - Bridge financier with full repayment of principal and interest in 6 months
- KKR and Torquest - Participated in two management buy-outs with 3X returns
- Breakwater Boathouse, Vacation rental - Founder and Manager
- Property development - Principal of four successful projects with returns exceeding 3X
- 4D, Bar at Vic Hall at Queen's University - Founder and Bartender with enough profit to cover my first year bar tab:)
- Work4U, Landscaping and painting - Co-founder with enough profit to keep gas in the boat to ski all summer:)
TOP SKILLS
- Enterprise sales, contracting
- Building high performing teams
- Vendor and partner management, contracting
- Helping companies leverage technology to achieve scale
- Strategy and leadership
- Operations, metrics and efficiency
- SRED rebate program design
EDUCATION
- Queen's University, Kingston, ON - BSc in Biology and Psychology
- INSEAD, France - Executive MBA
- Beedie/Rotman, Vancouver, BC - Directors Education Program (DEP)