Umbrex is pleased to welcome Claire de Weerdt with de Weerdt Consulting. Claire is a former McKinsey Consultant and has been running her consulting company, de Weerdt Consulting Inc, for the past year with a focus primarily in strategy and market research. Prior to McKinsey, Claire obtained her MBA from the University of British Columbia and worked as a Project Engineer at SNC-Lavalin. Claire provides support to investors, consulting companies, executive teams, as well as start-ups primarily in the industrials, technology,…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ali Reza with Pier 70 LLC.  Ali is a private equity operating partner with experience at KKR and TPG, where he led transformational change for portfolio companies in retail, consumer, health care and industrial goods sectors. He has also held general management roles with P&L responsibility, such as COO for a health care services start-up and head of market for a geographically distributed multi-site company with over $1B in systemwide revenues. He began his career…