Nikola Leger

University of Montreal

College Jean-de-Brebeuf

College Notre-Dame

Rolling up agencies & tech at breakneck speed, building the first Growth as a Service platform & ramping up a circular economy #better-together

Canada

The game has changed. There’s a better way to grow. Our leading-edge technology connects top-tier talent to agencies, agencies to clients, and clients to guaranteed results. There's something different here. Are you ready?

Republix

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

eRational

Acting Chief Executive Officer

- acquired by Republix in Feb 2020]

When I met Thomas, the CEO of eRational Marketing, it became abundantly clear that we shared very similar values, a perfectly aligned vision and that we would most certainly be better together. I gladly joined the agency to fuel its growth and Thomas joined our venture to rock our common vision: to make entrepreneurs & small businesses win, because their dreams matter.

We are using our tech platform to bypass the digital transformation of one of our own agencies and quantum leap from a service based agency into a SaaS like company.

What a ride it's been! We're almost there! :)

President

- acquired by Republix in Apr 2020]

The marketing & advertising technology landscape has become overly crowded, fragmented, & overwhelming in the last few years.

With over 8000 marketing tech providers spread across 106+ functional areas of marketing, it‘s  increasingly difficult to keep up for small businesses.

We have been toiling day and night to deliver you the first Growth as a Service platform.

Thanks to recent developments (in marketing automation, business automation, micro-service architecture, function as a service architecture, continuous release, micro payments, deep machine learning, natural language processing, & so much more), you will now be able to...

- simply define your business objectives & let the platform bring together the best PEOPLE, PROCESS & TECHNOLOGY to power your growth...

- while you focus on what you do best: run your business & deliver value to your customs.

All from one single ongoing conversation & one unique highly visual interface leveraging mind mapping and critical thinking.

Message me if you'd like to be better↔together. Let's chat!

Time to put some GaaS in your engine!

Integrity.One

Ramped up account managers to ratio of 1 per 400 clients. Launched listing management product under 8 months. Expanded basic websites to premium websites that compete with agency custom sites.

TC Media

Sr Product Director - Digital Content - Local Solutions

Built a WordPress offer by adding a robust layer of standardization on top. Built a client success model that would yield less than 4% yearly churn for our websites. Built custom workflow engine for execution. Took over and ramped up the Paid Ads team.

Digital Product Director - TC Media Incubator

TC had been hesitant about selling websites for about a decade. When former Googler Stéphane Gagné was looking for his man to build the product, my former boss easily convinced them I was carved for the job.

Digital Product Manager

A good friend of mine needed a right hand to build a call center from scratch. We cracked the code for selling online directory outside the province, with one cold call, on credit card and then built a team of 20+ sales rep.

Sales Manager

During my Stereo years, I met with the incredible people of Awdio and gave them a hand finding live broadcast music sources in Canada.

Awdio.com

Music Angel - Canada (partnerships)

Found new partners and completed seed round of 450k to launch a mixology lounge concept. 2008 was a rough financial years and we were not able to secure the operating funds so we ran on fumes for a while.

Unless you're seriously shorting stocks, market crashes aren't a whole lot of fun it turns out. Lol! :)

Alkemista Business Group

Managing Partner

Karim, a good friend of mine, was operating a development company and was looking for a bit of mojo. We took a deep look at the business and started working together on business processes and strategy.  Found some good talent, clarified vision and focus, created opportunities for business development and gave a new direction.

I learned a lot of about application development back in those days.

Phi Vision

Business Process Analyst (consultant)

I was bartending on week-ends.

Management got wind of my day job & eventually convinced me to overhaul their promo teams.

Led me to a general manager position & became the managing partner to lead the turnaround for the next 4 years.

As can often be the case in the nightlife, the relationship didn't exactly work out, near the end, with my partners...lol!  So I had to move on to the next challenge.

Stereo Nightclub

General Manager / Partner

During those years, I leveraged some of my learning into helping out a variety of people and businesses throughout my network. Very, very gratifying work to contribute to building up people and their businesses.

Loved every second of it.

Entrepreneur

Business Coach (part time)

Decided to put my event promoter hat back on and put together a production crew. We owned various nights at different clubs and generated over 1M in sales over the next 2 years.

911 productions

Co-founder

Needed a second job during our startup years so took on a night shift in customer service at Rogers. Ended up top performer in cross sales, acted as interim supervisor and implemented sales gamification

Rogers

CSR / Interim Supervisor

I was working on a naval conquest board game concept when I met with the late Patrick Teasdale. We immediately hit it off and decided to found ACE Factory in order to commercialize his brainchild, a chess/checker like flag game set in medieval times. I was later joined by Martin Dagneau and those were some of the most formative years of my life.

From product design to local manufacturing, financing to distribution and dabbing into what would later be known as crowdfunding, we had quite a blast!