COLIN MACDONALD, MBA
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Colin MacDonald received his MBA from Western University where he also won the A.C.E. Award from the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs. Colin holds a certificate in Computer Music from Carleton University and completed 3 years of a CGA at the University of Ottawa before beginning his consulting career which started in promotion for record distributors Warner Bros.
Colin moved to San Francisco in 1995 and was a Founding Member of VOST (Video Open Set Top Box Committee) working at Stanford University with KODAK, IBM and famed five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppala on a collaborative venture which involved using the Internet in defining a ‘Cinema of the Future’. In 1997 he returned to Canada as General Manager of Digital Data Networks and within 18 months grew this regional Internet Service Provider (ISP) into a thriving business with over 1500 corporate clients across Canada supplying Internet access, Web Site hosting and ecommerce solutions to firms such as Quebecor, KPMG and Mustang Survival.
Since 1999 Colin has worked throughout North America at Board and Executive levels most notably with Accenture, Best Buy and Oracle. He is a no nonsense professional corporate consultant with an interesting and varied background in organizational development, organizational design and structure, operational and project management, leadership development and change management. He is a Certified Scrum Master familiar with mission critical systems and high volume transaction processing having been a ‘hands on’ project manager to Sears, Shoppers Drug Mart, Yahoo, Rogers and Future Shop on several social network and ecommerce initiatives.
Colin is based in Vancouver, Canada and has one daughter. He is also a music composer ( http://www.myspace.com/session11 ) whose hobbies include playing guitar, baseball, golf, and attending concerts. Colin has a passion for the sport of tennis and from 1992 to 1995 was involved in the game as a professional coach to several high performance athletes across North America.
Contact Information
email: colin@macdonald.com
