Innovative Projects Realized

Business Development Intern

The strategic analysis will be centered on inserting Peloton’s cloud based electronic payment product into the middle of the multiple relationships in the trust account management space. This is a “greenfield” market opportunity that the company is uniquely set up to pivot into. Peloton seeks assistance with the market analysis and creation of the business plan. A key component of the business plan will be articulating, through diagrams and simple language, the complex payment flow involved in these transactions that works within the law society’s legal framework as it pertains to electronic payments.

Pliteq Business Strategy Internship

The project will involve identifying and analyzing potential high growth and stable markets. It will require conducting research through various construction databases and market sources to address the two opportunities outlined above.

Pliteq has created a team dedicated to growing sales of the GenieMat®Rail product, an acoustic solution with applications to railways. The role will involve working with this team to identify rail projects as well as other government infrastructure projects, where Pliteq’s products have a range of applications throughout any given building. It will require tracking government stimulus announcements across Pliteq’s global markets as well as reviewing construction databases for specific projects.

The second issue will require an understanding of both macro and micro economic factors to determine which geographic markets Pliteq should prioritize. This could include research on government restrictions during COVID-19 and general economic health of the region as well as on the local construction industry and rate of new builds. Pliteq’s sales engineers are each focused on a specific region. Some team members have seen a dramatic slowdown in their region and, in response, have refocused their attention on other existing markets.

Business Strategy Internship

We are looking at a strategy that addresses the two issues stated above. A way for Carlyle to pivot to expand their bundling approach (mentioned in issue one), to be a competitive advantage in the shrinking market, and issue two getting us engaged in the changing workflow within our customer companies. The objective of the project to investigate the options, do market sizing, competitive landscaping, and develop the action plans of implementation of the strategy.
One of the areas we see on the horizon is completing the workflow of office printing. Right now, we are on the creating side (printing a page), we think there are opportunities to continue the journey of that page. What do they do with that printed page? File, modify, store, destroy, secure, distribute and so on. The intern would work with us on exploring and researching the options of expanding Carlyle’s services further down the life cycle of that printed page.

Business Strategy Internship

Business Strategy Internship

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Marketing and Innovation Specialist

As a Marketing and Innovation Specialist at Nature’s Expression, I will be assisting the development of robust strategies targeted at retailers to support sales activities. COVID-19 has significantly decreased the sales projections of Nature’s Expression and I will have to reconsider the existing marketing strategies throughout the remainder of the year. I will accomplish this by maintaining social network activities, coordinating promotions using various delivery methods and reviewing survey results to learn about the types of funding mechanisms British Columbians are in favour of.

Canadian Zeolites for Integrated Desalination, Nutrient Recovery and Bioremediation

Natural Canadian zeolite is an attractive mineral for the restoration of lands disturbed by the extraction of natural resources such as metals, oil and gas. Dr. Wonjae Chang’s Environmental Engineering Lab developed a dualmineral prototype, using Canadian zeolites, for the desalination of potash brine-impacted water. Dr. Chang also demonstrated the significant accumulation of residual potassium in the mineral adsorbents following multiple desalination cycles for potash brine-impacted water. In collaboration with ZMM® Canada Minerals Crop. and using newly mined Canadian zeolite species, this research will further develop the mineral-based desalination cycles for potash brine as well as integrate them with nutrient recovery to assess the feasibility of using recovered nutrient-enriched minerals for the bioremediation of soils impacted by oil and gas production. Through this waste-to-valuables process using zeolites, potash mine waste products may ultimately be beneficial to oilfield soil remediation. This research will expand the life cycles, end-users and applicability of ZMM® zeolites for environmental technology.

Intern

By participating in this business strategy internship, one key skill that I will gain is being more proficient with valuation techniques and using Excel. This will help further my academic studies by being able to use Excel in a more efficient manner and being able to better understand valuation techniques during projects in class. The research project I am working on is writing an appraisal report. This consists of macro and micro economic research, valuations, as well as understanding neighbourhoods and real estate trends. The benefit to Garnett Wilson Realty Advisors is having more research done for appraisal reports.

Product development

1) Analyze incremental markets for Eli’s real estate product. Determine how to effectively establish the sales strategy, then test and implement a marketing plan in collaboration with Eli’s CEO and COO.
2) Examine the public health and resource sectors’ pain points as it pertains to implementing AI tools. Assess the size of addressable markets and develop plans for assessing product/market fit.
The responsibilities will be to prepare a strategic marketing plan based on the scope, and activities will include research, outreach, developing content and test campaigns that will enable us to modify and expand our base to respond to the new business environment.

Equity Research Intern

COVID-19 has significantly impacted our business and we have taken the following steps to mitigate this impact: applied to and received funding from the government’s CEWC (Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy) program; decreased full-time, permanent headcount; eliminated non-essential expenses, and;prioritized planned new hires, rescinded offers, and delayed start dates. Interns are important to the future success of our company as they will contribute to the workflow and output necessary to fulfill an influx of client requests, ultimately reducing customer churn during uncertain financial and economic times.
Scope: Work directly with Analysts across sectors and gain in-depth knowledge of the financial markets in the US and Canada
Key responsibilities & activities:
· Gain broad sector knowledge through our smallcap generalist team
· Create detailed financial models on both existing and new coverage and update current financial models for new
results
· Conduct historical financial statement analysis and future period forecasting
· Work to improve current models and create summary output sheets for company comparison purposes
· Coordinate, generate and maintain research reports, presentations and database
· Preparing documentation for analysts and portfolio managers to explain how we handle adjustments, non GAAP
results, restatements and other accounting principles
· Identifying inconsistencies in accounting across the database and implementing processes to correct them

Digital Marketing Strategist

SCHMEAR Naturals is an early stage natural skincare company based out of Vancouver BC. Since our launch in 2018, we have seen steady organic growth in our D2C markets and B&M wholesale channel. With the impact of the pandemic, we have seen an over 60% decline in our turnover directly attributed to the cancellations of events and closures faced by our wholesale partners. As a small business, we quickly launched our Shopify e-commerce channel. We now face the challenges of developing a digital marketing strategy to optimize this sales channel, while balancing the efforts of the re-launch of our superfood face masks (coming August 2020).

Research Analyst

My internship at Merchant Equities Capital Corp. will be an opportunity for me to work directly with the principal of the company and get an intimate experience in the finance industry, specifically merchant banking and private equity. During my time at Merchant Equities I will be supporting the principal, Mr. Leslie, in an audit of one of MECC’s clients, TRION Energy Solutions, where I will be responsible for gathering, summarizing, and organizing all of the necessary documentation. I will also assist Mr. Leslie in his efforts to fund TRION Energy Solutions during various tranches that will be fundamental in capitalizing their ground breaking research into a more efficient lithium-ion battery. I will support management’s vision to build and operate four environmentally friendly green facilities that are being engineered to convert annually tens of thousands of tonnes of garbage into high-grade renewable diesel and aviation fuels.(A fifth facility is contemplated to be built on a JV basis between CIELO and Seymour Capital, a company that is also a client of MECC). I will also help to model the costs and projected revenues of the green JV facilities, pursuant to which there are executed Memorandums of Understanding with CIELO.