Build the thing. Build the team. Repeat.
I'm a product leader from Vancouver who has spent twenty years doing two jobs at once: drawing the play and running it. At Prenuvo I built Product, Design, QA, Data, IT, Security and Marketing from scratch, then helped scale the company from $400K to nine-figure annual revenue while 100K+ people across three countries got access to proactive MRI screening — with life-changing findings for roughly one patient in five. Before that: payments, payroll and hotel tech, from first prototype to platforms moving billions.
Player-coach isn't a title, it's a habit. When Prenuvo needed a marketing lead, I stepped in for a year: five times the qualified leads, self-serve booking up from under 10% to half of all appointments, new locations breaking even inside three months. Then I handed it off in good shape and went back to product. When the company needed someone to own privacy and responsible AI — a gap with company-ending stakes and nobody in the seat — I ran the same play: see the gap, step up, own it.
That's the pattern across twenty years. Do the work, build the people who do the work, get out of the way. So when my card started reading Senior Director of Privacy, Responsible AI & Data Protection Officer, some recruiters read it as a career change. It wasn't. It was the same move, run again. Keep scrolling.
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