Communitech Scaling Series: Steve Leslie
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Communitech Hub
151 Charles Street West Jellybean Room (1st Floor) Kitchener, ON N2G 1H6 CanadaRefund Policy
Description
Scaling your company requires planning, timing, and a good amount of hustle. The Communitech Scaling Series are invite-only and bring speakers who have scaled the summit to help you on your journey.
This month, Communitech is excited to welcome Steve Leslie, Senior Vice President, Sales, Business Solutions East, TELUS
What do you need to do to position yourself when you’re reaching that first $100M so that you can get to $1B?
With more than 25 years of international experience in technology, leadership development, general management, marketing, sales, and strategy, Steve leads a team of more than 300 IT sales professionals in Eastern Canada.
Steve joined TELUS from Softchoice Corporation. As Senior Vice-president for sales and marketing, he led an organization of more than 700 professionals focused on helping North American clients improve their results by implementing business solutions. He also helped Softchoice transform from a $250 million technology software fulfillment business into a $1.2 billion, multi-channel, top 5 North American solutions provider, building more than $450 million in shareholder value.
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Communitech was founded in 1997 by a group of entrepreneurs who joined forces to help each other build successful companies. They saw the need for a community to help ensure the future prosperity of Canada, and Communitech was born.
Today, we are Canada’s tech supercharger. Still guided by a mission to help founders start, grow and succeed, we are a supportive community at every stage of the founder journey. We provide accelerated opportunities for startups, scale-ups and at-scale companies to access talent, capital and sales.
We help founders:
- hire and retain the smartest, brightest and most experienced team
- access growth financing at every stage
- sell to the biggest customers at home, and then around the world
- connect the right people at the right time – peers who have been there before, coaches who can guide them through the difficult spots and partners from all over Canada
Parking:
Limited parking is available for up to two hours in the Tannery visitor lot, located at Charles and Victoria St. on a first-come, first-served basis . If the visitor lot is full, or if you plan to be on site for longer than 2 hours, please refer to this map of City of Kitchener on-street and parking lot options.