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Corey Kunze

Corey Kunze

Business Developmet/Executive
Vancouver,BC

Summary

Q-commerce and rapid grocery expert skilled at launching and growing startup enterprises. Proven record of finding, hiring and motivating good people. Demonstrated record of achievements across a 7-year career. A strategic, entrepreneurial and results-driven individual. Truly a leader that loves to work on difficult problems to boost success with continuous process improvements. Proven track record of dramatically increasing business size, revenue and profit in short periods of time.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Co-Founder, CEO

FlingIt Technologies
Vancouver, BC
11.2021 - 04.2022
  • Researched the Q-commerce industry and conducted market research to understand customers' desires.
  • Built the groundwork to launch a Q-commerce and last-mile logistics company in Vancouver in under 150 days.
  • Built a countrywide vision that forced many grocery and logistics industry experts to have complete buy-in.
  • Worked on developing and product and go-to-market strategy that would make FlingIt a sticky household name.
  • Built a financial model to understand KPIs like food wastage, delivery costs, picker costs to understand a path to locational profitability
  • I built a team of 3 expert co-founders and many industry experts that were helping us build FlingIt
  • Recruitment planning for technical, operational, launch, support and more teams
  • found and planned our first location, including floorplans, renovation planning, permit planning, equipment procurement, etc.
  • Guided our team to build an outline around the SKUs we would be carrying in each dark store
  • Built relationships with multiple suppliers and strategic brand partners to supply our dark stores
  • Designed and developed a Q-commerce grocery delivery app in under 90 days.
  • Researched and met with companies to plan WMS and ERP needs and figure out which solution is best for Q-commerce needs.
  • Attempted to fundraise capital from VCs to open our first location in downtown Vancouver as multiple Q-commerce businesses were starting to fail, making it very difficult for us to find capital.

Cheif Growth Officer

All Green Services
Vancouver, BC
11.2019 - 03.2021
  • Developed and executed a strategy that grew the business from 2 service trucks and 3 employees to 6 service trucks and over 30 employees in under 18 months.
  • Scaled the business's revenue from $200K ARR to $1.5M ARR in under 12 months.
  • Planned and successfully executed a 20-person direct sales campaign which generated $1M in ARR in under 6 months.
  • Developed and executed a recruitment plan that grew the company from 2 employees to 30 employees.
  • Built out model and forecasting that would allow us to profitable grow quickly.
  • Developed a large database of employee training programs and SOPs for multiple departments.
  • Developed a sales training program that allowed our sales reps to have instant success.
  • Took on the task of rebranding the company, planning and implementing an online acquisition strategy.
  • Built a customer retention program to decrease churn rate.
  • Took on many hats in the company as we were a startup and the CEO was often incapable of performing the tasks we needed to scale.
  • Worked with service staff to increase efficiency, and service level while reducing the bottom line.
  • Developed packages that were customized to fit exact customer desires.


Sales Manager

Vantage Marketing
Toronto, ON
01.2018 - 11.2019
  • Played a large role in growing a direct sales team from 2 regions into 6 regions across over 20 Canadian cities.
  • Managed a team involved in generating $10m in new ARR and over 15,000 new customers in under 24 months.
  • Worked with a team to recruit, train and lead over 150 new team members over 2 summers.
  • Lead daily sales training and morning meetings that would help to motivate our sales reps and build a great culture.
  • Was a key role in developing the sales knowledge and success of 100+ university intern door-to-door sales reps.
  • Worked with our admin team and service team to increase customer satisfaction and retention.
  • Acquired housing for 60+ people in multiple cities across Canada.

Education

BBA - Entrepreneurial Studies

Red River College of Applied Arts, Science And Technology
Winnipeg, MB
09.2013 - 05.2015

Certificate - Entrepreneurial Studies

Harvard Business School Online
Boston, MA
02.2021 - 05.2021

Skills

    Business Development

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Hobbies

  • Solving problems through entrepreneurship
  • Networking with people I look up to
  • Reading and learning
  • Travelling and exploring
  • Spending time with my family and fiancee


Timeline

Co-Founder, CEO

FlingIt Technologies
11.2021 - 04.2022

Certificate - Entrepreneurial Studies

Harvard Business School Online
02.2021 - 05.2021

Cheif Growth Officer

All Green Services
11.2019 - 03.2021

Sales Manager

Vantage Marketing
01.2018 - 11.2019

BBA - Entrepreneurial Studies

Red River College of Applied Arts, Science And Technology
09.2013 - 05.2015

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