Gabriel Szabadi

Successful business development leader, a business professional with demonstrated track record in BD and sales management. Exceptional program, team and project manager. Skilled at mentoring staff, integrating ideas and customizing approaches to support specific means and goals, with strong abilities to open new markets and optimize sales from current customers, ability to maximize effects of CRM.

A successful owner/operator and president of six companies in the automotive business with over 400 employees, I gained experience as a C-level executive in which I led my teams in Business development, marketing, sales, contract negotiations, conflict-resolutions, management, CRM, international market expansion, workplace safety, and employee training.

After successfully engineering my own exit and selling all six companies to a large corporation out of Arizona In 2013, I pivoted into high-tech where I was initially a white angel and then proceeded to co-found four companies, the first was an ICO companies in which we built crypto-currency coins for two companies out of Boston, the 2nd company called DG Pro was an international distributor of products for a California based company called BodyGlove inc.

The 3rd company wholly owned by me is called iotProximity inc which built a digital sensor cluster safety-zone mobile instrument for the O&G, construction and mining industry.

The 4th company is called GC Rock consulting which is a business coaching and consulting company.

In the past eight years I was hired by several different companies to lead business development, scale the company, or to be a turn-around specialist.

in 2017 I was head-hunted and joined Smartcone technologies inc. as Executive VP where I dealt with only fortune-50 companies such as Exelone, IBM, Nokia, The USA space-force and air-force, IBM international, DHL, Disney, General Motors, shell oil, BP oil, and Vale SA mining etc.

At Carlton University I taught BD & Entrepreneurship to the co-op students in the TIMP (Technology Innovation management Program) of the engineering department for two years.

I was in the IDF military in a commando- intelligence unit for two years.

I graduated from the military school of medicine as a battle-field medic.

I graduated from the TAP program in Toronto.

I am a member of the OPMMA (Ottawa Project Management & Marketing Association)

I workers at Invest ottawa (an Incubator / Accelarator) for two years helping over twenty startup come to fruition.

winner of Canada's top 50 over 50  in 2018 and top 10 entrepreneur internationally by several magazines.

I am proficient in five languages.

I have a bronze medal in the Royal life saving society.

Volunteer in dad rides for toys.

Volunteer in end-of-life care hospice at the Bruyere centre in Ottawa.

I volunteer as president of the local residents association with 38,000 members.

Hobbies: Horse-back riding, table-tennis, Bowling and Golf.