Don has directed and executed marketing and communications campaigns in North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Before the $370 million acquisition byWestern Union in 2008, he led the communications team at Custom House Global Foreign Exchange. Don directed communications for 81 branch offices located across North America and in the United Kingdom, Europe, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, he generated news stories for the company with the BBC, the International Herald Tribune, Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, TVNZ, the Singapore Straight Times, the Stars and Stripes, CBC, BNN, the Globe and Mail and other national and international media.
He served as head of public affairs for LAC Minerals Ltd., a $1.2 billion global precious metal mining company listed on the TSX, ME, NYSE, Paris, Brussels & Antwerp Stock Exchanges. Prior to the takeover by Barrick Gold Corporation, Lac Minerals had gold, copper, zinc and aggregate mines in Canada, the United States, South America and exploration projects in Africa and Papua New Guinea. Don managed communications with the company’s twelve hundred employees in English, French and Spanish and helped the company win the Financial Post Annual Report Award twice.
Don also managed media relations and crisis communications. He helped create a multiple page special feature story for the Northern Miner about LAC Minerals’ underground and open pit gold mining operations in Quebec, Ontario, California, Nevada, North Dakota and Chile. Don managed a number of crisis situations for LAC including an accident off the Atlantic shelf involving eighteen shipping containers of spilled arsenic trioxide and the US Coast Guard and Navy.
One Queen Street East & Richmond St,
the former headquarters of Bramalea Inc. inToronto,Canada.
Don served as Vice President, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations for Bramalea Inc., a $4 billion North American property development company listed on the TSX. The company owned a portfolio of hotels including the Four Seasons, shopping malls including Yorkdale and the Eaton Centre and industrial malls and housing developments in Texas, California, Ohio and Ontario.
While working in the field, Don also shared his love of teaching young people. When he wasn’t at the top of the Andes in Chile or working out of an office tower in California, he was teaching part time in the marketing degree program at Ryerson University.
Don has worked on news stories with many major television networks and news media – online and traditional – in theUnited States,Canada, UK/Europe and Asia Pacific including CNN, BBC, CNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CBC, Fortune, WSJ, IHT, Dow Jones, Bloomberg and Reuters.
Today he lectures at the University of Toronto on marketing.
