Kevin’s passion is in helping companies develop their growth strategies, be it organic or via acquisition. He has been increasingly active in the start-up ecosystem, offering advice to founders on their go to market and fundraising plans, making several angel investments, and advising private equity and venture capital funds. Kevin brings a breadth of corporate development and operations experience in fintech, proptech, and data analytics focused on the residential real estate and mortgage space over the past 20 years. Kevin joined the founding team at Real Matters in 2007, where he held multiple executive roles and was instrumental in taking the company from a start-up to a profitable $1B market cap company listed on the TSX. In that time, he was Head of Corporate Development, leading the organic market entry to the United States, followed by the acquisition of 8 companies, for an aggregate purchase price of over $175M. In addition, Kevin also held various roles during his tenure, including VP of operations, parent company leadership of several acquired divisions, and held duties of the COO for 18 months prior to hiring a full-time replacement. Most recently in addition to M&A, he also led financial planning and analysis and enterprise data analytics across the group of companies.