Larry Walsh - Calgary, Alberta

Administrator / President

Calgary, Alberta

Insurance, Med. DevicesPharma, Medical/Dental

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Synopsis

Mr. Walsh has over forty-five years experience in the business management and engineering fields.

A number of years in the public sector with the Urban Development Division of the Engineering Department of a major Canadian city give Mr. Walsh valuable experience in evaluation, team management, and negotiation. The role of the Urban Development Division was to act as a coordinator and mediator between the land development industry and the Engineering Department as well as other city departments. These functions give the Urban Development staff extensive experience in all facets of the civil engineering discipline.

With over twenty-five years owning and running a major business directory publishing operation, Mr. Walsh has been involved with every aspect of corporate management from purchasing to personnel, from production to distribution, from advertising to marketing. Taking the company from a pre-computer printed directory to the latest of custom-written electronic presentation incorporating data-based search engine technology has given Mr. Walsh a thorough grounding in the fields of computerized data accumulation, computer application\'s design and project management, software evaluation, and communications.

Since 1980, Mr. Walsh has been the President, and principle, of Newman, Walsh and Associates Ltd., which extends contract business management services to client firms. Over the past thirty years, services have been provided to companies in the printing, mailing, computer, financial services, and insurance fields. In addition, under the tradename of Marketpoint, Mr. Walsh offered direct-mail marketing consulting and services. Client companies included a wide spectrum such as land developers; educational institutes; the travel, banking, and transport industries as well as the political arena.

During the 2004-06, Mr. Walsh was the President and then CEO of a new high-tech aeroponics greenhouse operation; taking it through concept, design, testing, and final construction. The project was a $53M undertaking with a core group of 8 on the management team as well as other professional consultants and contractors.

From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Walsh was the contract administration pivot for RBee Capital Associates Ltd., a holding company with 12 subsidiaries in the insurance, financial planning, oil, gas and mining interests, land development and construction management as well as high-tech bio-technologies.

Mr. Walsh left RBee Capital to concentrate on building and expanding Canadian HealthCare Administrators Inc. In 2006; Mr. Walsh bought a minor interest in Canadian HealthCare Administrators Inc. Increasing his stake to a majority interest in 2008, when another shareholder left; he took complete control in 2010.

Mr. Walsh maintains memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Data Exchange Council, The Canadian Marketing Association formerly the Canadian Direct Marketing Association, The American Marketing Association and the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen.