Pierre Vinet, BSc.
Expert in business development and optimisation
Career objectives
To put his strengths to work for companies by improving their growth and profitability — supporting them through start-up, growth, valuation and, where relevant, sale.
His core skills: business planning and marketing planning (offline and digital), project design and delivery, strategy development, partnership building (suppliers, distribution networks), building and supervising sales teams, and the optimisation, documentation and automation of operational processes.
Profile
Personality
- Will outperform the competition and secure success
- Respectful of hierarchy — over 30 years of martial arts
- Honest, loyal and ethical
- Extremely determined, ambitious, self-reliant and demanding
- Goal- and results-driven
- Continually invests in personal and professional growth
Abilities
- Fully bilingual, with excellent presentation and communication skills
- Strong ability to learn and master complex concepts
- Exceptional reasoning and creativity
- Adapts quickly and delivers large-scale projects effectively
Territories and network
Territories: Montreal and its surrounding shores, Quebec and Ontario — and beyond on request.
Contact network: businesses, Quebec healthcare institutions, investment, construction and large residential property management firms, senior living communities, dermatology, phlebology and medical aesthetics clinics, fitness centres and spas.
Education
Academic
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry
Graduate studies (master’s level) — human biomechanics
DEC Pure and Applied Sciences + DEC Health Sciences (concurrent)
Professional certifications
Certified Telecommunications Professional
Certified IP Telephony Professional
Tools and continuing skills
- MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel — power user), Outlook, MS Teams, Google Workspace
- CRM: HubSpot, Salesforce
- Project management: fundamentals and tools (Asana)
- Digital marketing and social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok
- Entrepreneurship, company creation and management
- Photo editing (Photoshop) and audio-video (Adobe Premiere)
- Computer networks (basics)
- Programming: C# and JavaScript (working knowledge)
- AI-based software and services
A committed reader — on average one book every two weeks for decades, across business psychology, management, sales, marketing, finance, nutrition and longevity.
Professional experience
Regional Director
Building the value proposition, developing strategic partnerships, generating opportunities, closing sales and overseeing delivery of the professional services provided to clients.
Territory Manager
Developing medical device sales to dermatology, phlebology and medical aesthetics clinics across the territory. Strategic planning, market awareness through social media, direct messaging, prospect list building, outreach and canvassing. Annual sales targets met.
Head of Business Development
Revenue growth through direct B2B sales and the development of strategic relationships with clients, partners and resellers. Territories: Quebec and Ontario, with sales also closed in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Clientele: businesses, government healthcare institutions and senior living residences.
Over $3M in revenue generated during the final 8 months of his tenure (equipment sales and 5-year service agreements).
Vice-President, Business Development
Design and execution of the business development plan: prospecting, client relationships and distribution agreements. Clientele: Bell, Telus, Vidéotron, government institutions, residences, hotels. Also designed the company website, produced its marketing material and defined the technical specifications of new products.
Reseller network grown from 1 to over 400, through strategic partnerships with NEC and Toshiba.
Senior Sales Representative
Closing sales contracts with SMEs and large organisations.
No. 1 representative in Canada for Toshiba telephony products, and the company’s top salesperson for 11 consecutive months.
Sporting accomplishments
From 1986 to 2008, head taekwondo instructor and technical director at several schools, including the Châteauguay Taekwondo Academy and the Rivière-des-Prairies youth centre — where he ran a programme set up with the Montreal police to get teenagers off the street. With Grand Master Chong Soo Lee he also developed and taught the NCCP I and II taekwondo programme.
From 2002 to 2004 he founded and ran NETRIENTS, a sports supplement company that grew from 1 to 5 employees and from 0 to over 400 retailers.
Certifications
- Certified 5th-degree black belt — World Taekwondo
- Certified taekwondo instructor — Taekwondo Canada
- NCCP taekwondo and NCCP Olympic weightlifting — Coaching Association of Canada
- Accredited Ironman triathlon coach — Carmichael Training Systems
- Certified kettlebell instructor; neurotherapist and kinesiologist equivalencies
Achievements
- Bodybuilding: Canadian runner-up and 2005 world qualifiers (drug-free championship), provincial champion 2003, 3rd place 2007 and 3rd place at the 2008 Canadian National Championship
- Taekwondo: provincial champion six consecutive years, selected for 3 national championships, quarter-finalist at the 1995 U.S. Open (Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center)
- Youngest international referee of the World Olympic Taekwondo Federation