Robert Vallis

I am an accomplished senior leader and business development professional focused on organizational growth and profitability objectives. A broad and progressive career developed over 25 years . An executive with a wide breadth of experience across corporate strategy and planning, business/transaction development and execution, project and team management, financial evaluations, continuous improvement, change management and mine engineering/operations. A self-motivated, driven forward thinker and respected people/team developer.

My Reputation Has Been Built On:

• Executing for Results. I consistently exercise my ability to set clear and inspirational goals while committing the organization to improved performance with a high degree of tenacity, technical and business proficiency, accountability, and integrity.
• Setting Strategy. I regularly partner with senior executives and project teams to identify, create and articulate strategies focused on achieving corporate goals and competitive positioning. I reliably develop and present motivating and achievable change concepts and objectives within the realistic capabilities and limits of the project teams and organization.
• Developing and Leading Teams. I effectively challenge and manage team performance and results by recognizing and celebrating team diversity while supporting and motivating team individuals to fully utilize their individual skill sets.

Specialties: Corporate M&A transaction development and execution, external networking and relationship building, corporate strategy, Operations and planning, M&A financial evaluation and due diligence, project management, team building and leadership, business transformation, continuous improvement, change management and engineering

Worked and gained significant experience working for large-cap industry leading firms and smaller companies. “Business meets Technical” skill and experience combination across a range of scales of M&A transactions and and business deals to operations engineering, planning, and enterprise-wide continuous improvement implementation.

MBA - Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto