Dean Olmstead
Senior Vice President, Canada Operating Unit
Dean is responsible for all of Avanade’s business in Canada. Prior to this role, Dean served as Vice President of North Americas Market Development and Sales Strategy, overseeing Avanade North Americas’ vertical solutions and alliance alignment with Accenture and Microsoft.
Prior to joining Avanade, Dean spent over 18 years with Accenture where he was a Partner in the Communications & High Tech Industry group. Dean worked on delivering customer projects to the communications industry primarily focused on large custom development implementations in the Customer Care and Billing area. Dean also was responsible for one of Accenture’s mobility labs and helped drive the incubation of this technology in the enterprise.
Dean has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Economics from Pomona College
Benoit Bertrand
Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer
Benoit Bertrand is Avanade’s Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Canada. He is responsible for solutioning and managing large IT programs for anchor customers across the country
Prior to this position, Benoit was the Director of the Avanade Montreal Delivery Center. The center specializes in delivering Microsoft based solutions for the enterprise in collaboration with Accenture and Microsoft.
Benoit was a member of the core team that launched Avanade Canada in 2002 and he has been a member of the leadership team since that time. He has over 17 years of experience in IT consulting with Avanade and Accenture where he has held Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Manager, Senior Manager, Sr. Director, Vice-President roles and responsibilities over the course of his career.
Benoit holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke.
Glenn Kerrick
Account Group Executive, Eastern Canada
Glenn Kerrick is Avanade’s Account Group Executive for Eastern Canada responsible for running all aspects of the business in the region including business development, sales and client delivery.
Glenn is a seasoned business and technology executive with more than 23 years of experience. Glenn has deep expertise in helping customers from various industries to successfully identify, plan and implement change by aligning information technology, processes and people with business strategy. Prior to joining Avanade, Glenn held executive level positions with Accenture, BCE Emergis & NSB.
Glenn has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University.
John Audia
Account Group Executive, Central & Western Canada
John Audia is an Account Group Executive with Avanade focused on the Western Region and the Accenture channel in Canada. With over twenty five years of experience formulating and driving complex change and outsourcing programs for Canadian clients in a number of industries, John is a key senior sales executive. Prior to joining Avanade, John spent 20 years at Accenture and worked as a Senior Executive in CH&T and was the Client Account Leader for BCE. John is based in Toronto and works closely with Microsoft Canada and the Accenture CSG’s across Canada in his Western Canada and national role.
Kaytek Przybylski
Service Line Executive
Kaytek has a strong background in software development as well as methodology and has recently been very involved in large development efforts within the Financial Services Industry and is also very active in driving the adoption of VSTS. Kaytek works closely with many Avanade project teams to ensure that Avanade consistently delivers the best solutions to our customers. Kaytek joined Avanade in 2003 and was attracted by Avanade’s passion and commitment to deliver the benefits of Microsoft technologies to enterprises worldwide.
Wayne Kack
Senior Director, Delivery Management
 Wayne Kack is Avanade’s Senior Director, Delivery Manager for Canada. He is responsible for monitoring the successful delivery of Avanade’s portfolio of projects across Canada with a focus on quality, risk management, profitability and Customer satisfaction. Wayne also guides the creation of customer contracts during the sale of Avanade services and solutions.
Wayne joined Avanade almost 8 years ago as a founding member of the Avanade Canada organization. With more than 13 years of systems integration consulting experience, Wayne specializes in the design and implementation of custom software applications and technical solutions based on the Microsoft Enterprise platform. As a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) a Certified Systems Integration Solution Architect (SISA) and a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Wayne has extensive experience leading and managing project teams through all stages of the project lifecycle to a successful outcome. Prior to joining Avanade, Wayne worked for Accenture for nearly 6 years across a variety of industries with a focus on solution design and development, technical architecture and technical project management.
Wayne has an Honors Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa as well as an M.B.A. in Management Information Systems from McMaster University.
Paul Breakey
Director of Finance and Operations
Paul Breakey is Avanade’s Director of Finance and Operations for Canada. He is responsible for managing finance functions to support the region’s company operations.
Paul started his career with six years of public accounting experience with KPMG in both Toronto and Calgary. He earned his Chartered Accountancy designation in 2002.
Paul joined Avanade Canada as its eighth employee in early 2002 and he has been on the leadership team since then.
He holds a degree in Honors Commerce from McMaster University.
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