Ron Arsenault - Founder & President

Ron has a long history of solving digital sales and marketing challenges and a track record of helping companies grow profitable business.

Trained in communications media, Ron began his career at the Edmonton Journal managing the Obituaries and Notices section. Later, as account manager, Ron's campaigns won the "Foster Advertising Campaign of the Year" two years in a row. Shortly after, he was recruited by Chesebrough-Pond’s Inc. where he earned progressive assignments as Territory Manager, Key Account Manager, Sales Administration Manager and National Sales Manager. Recruited by Revlon as Western Region Sales Manager, Ron was responsible for directing the Revlon and Charlie sales plans and leading 10 sales representatives to the attainment of planned goals. Ron moved to Okanagan Dried Fruit Ltd. as Director of Sales and Marketing, where he helped deliver an eight year compounded sales growth of over 40%. Ron partnered in an exit strategy that saw the sale of the company to Sun-Rype Products Ltd.

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Jacques Choquette - Graphic Design, Development & Programming

Jacques got started with web technology in his early teens with the Mosaic browser, and a 2400 baud modem. Jacques attended Ryerson University - School of Image Arts graduating in 1999 with a Bachelor of Applied Arts In New Media. After university Jacques partnered with three of his classmates to found Lavapants Design which received accolades as one of the top 100 Canadian websites in 2001.

Jacques shifted his focus to freelance web development and over the next 3 years worked with various advertising agencies to develop numerous high profile websites for companies such as Taxi.ca, University of Toronto, Health Canada and many more. In 2004 Jacques moved to Whistler B.C. to work full time as the web designer for whistler.com, one of the most active websites in British Columbia. Jacques also worked as the lead on website development processes and web marketing programs.

In 2006 Jacques was recruited by Colonies.com, a web start-up company specializing in action sports. He was instrumental in the development of their web properties including Snowboard.com, Colonies.com and DigitalCameras.com.

Jacques, through his company Whistler Web & Print, has assited in the development of the clickTributes Platform. He provides clickTributes with day to day technical resources, architecture design, software design, maintenance and graphic design services.

Ryan Rotariu - Territory Sales & Marketing Manager

Ryan is a graduate of Okanagan University College, having excelled in Financial Management, Business Computer Applications and Small Business Management. While working at the Canadian Revenue Agency, Ryan discovered a love of public speaking through the SITSO Said-So Toastmasters which currently helps him in his role as Student Business Advisor at Okanagan College.

A problem solver by nature, Ryan routinely hosts seminars to local small business professionals on content specializing in developing an effective website, utilizing Google Analytics, enhancing search engine optimization and marketing online.

In 2009, Ryan's Okanagan University College business team won the seven day International Collegiate Business Simulation event in San Diego. The competion included top teams throughout North America.
Ryan's team will return to San Diego this summer to defend their title.

Ryan is currently a Bachelor of Business Administration student at Okanagan College and working with clickTributes through the College’s Ventureship Program.

Advisors

Harold Wallace, Funeral Director - H.W. Wallace Cremation and Burial Centre Inc.

Harold has served in the funeral industry for over 20 years. He was born in St. John’s Nfld and graduated from the Funeral Service Program at Humber College in Etobicoke, Ontario. Harold and wife Michelle moved to Duncan, BC in 1992 where Harold worked with Arbor Memorial Services Inc. Michelle and Harold fulfilled their dream of opening their own Funeral Home in Duncan in March, 2008.

Harold is involved in numerous Service Clubs and community organizations. He is past President - Optimist Club of St. Catharines, past President - Kiwanis Club of Duncan and past President Cowichan Valley Shrine Club (2003 and 2005). His memberships include the Duncan Elks Home #69, Royal Canadian Legion #53, Moose Lodge, Confederation Lodge as well as an affiliate member of Temple Lodge.

Doug Stratton, CLU - Apple Planning Services & dundee Private Investors

adam arsenault, BSC - Software Design engineer Microsoft

Adam is currently a member of the Education Team that develops educational features and products at Microsoft, in Redmond WA.

As SDE at Colonies.com, Adam lead several software development teams in social networking and ad serving and management software solutions; design, testing, deployment and migration of legacy ASP applications to ASP.NET. He administered dev and live databases, performance monitoring, tuning, site administration and data modeling.

With Manalta Coal, as IT Tech, Adam upgraded computer systems testing old software and hardware to ensure year 2000 compliancy.

PaulThompson, Business Coach - Eric Douglas Centre for Entrepreneurship

Paul Thompson is a team builder, mentor and motivational speaker with a talent for inspiring any company or group of people. For the past fifteen years Paul has been working with professionals in Canada and the United States through one on one mentoring, and groups ranging between 10 and 500 people.

Paul is author of "Small Business Sucks... but it doesn’t have to". Specializing in helping companies reach specific targets, llaunch products and re-frame their corporate structure.