Board of Directors
Brian L. Derksen
Chair
Brian L. Derksen
Chair
Brian is the Chair of the Board for Dye & Durham. In addition, he currently serves on board of directors of 3 other companies, including Oneok, Inc, Fish Technologies LLC and Brookshire Grocery Company.
Brian had a 36-year career with Deloitte LLP before retiring in 2014. During his tenure with Deloitte, he held many senior management roles including the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer and a position on Deloitte’s Global Board of Directors for 12 years. Brian also previously served on the national Board of the American Red Cross, the national Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Visitors of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Brian holds a BSc. from the University of Saskatchewan, an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant.
Matthew Proud
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Matthew Proud
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Matthew has been at the forefront of driving innovation and meaningful transformations within the Canadian legal services industry. His extensive strategic business and operations experience has been the driving force behind Dye & Durham’s exceptional growth.
Under Matthew’s leadership, Dye & Durham’s business has grown through multiple acquisitions and partnerships. Matthew is passionate about the continual reinforcement of Dye & Durham’s vision, values, and goals to drive clarity and purpose for the business.
In 2018, Matthew’s leadership was recognized when he was announced as one of CNW Group/The Caldwell Partners International Inc.’s Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honourees. Matthew holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Buckingham.
Peter C. Brimm
DIRECTOR
Peter C. Brimm
DIRECTOR
Peter C. Brimm has over 20 years of capital allocation, investing, and operating experience across multiple industries as a strategy and operations consultant, C-Suite executive, and investor.
Mr. Brimm is currently the President of Envoy Holdings, a family office. Prior to this position, Mr. Brimm was the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Innovation for Shiplake Properties, a Toronto-based real estate firm. Previously to that, Mr. Brimm served as the Chief Growth Officer at Leap Tool Inc., where he helped build out the businesses capabilities and helped the business achieve significant revenue growth (qualifying for the Deloitte Fast50 for two consecutive years). He has also held various roles working as a portfolio manager for several leading hedge funds in the US and in Canada, including Relational Investors and West Face Capital Inc., among others. Mr. Brimm holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with certificates in Global Management and Public Management and a B.A. cum laude in Business Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Brimm is a member of the CFA institute. Mr. Brimm is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Colleen Moorehead
DIRECTOR
Colleen Moorehead
DIRECTOR
Colleen Moorehead has extensive experience building successful companies and valuable brands. She is a respected business leader with senior management experience in financial services, technology, business and web-based services. Colleen has held a variety of corporate leadership positions and has a deep understanding of business development strategy in the services sector.
Ms. Moorehead is currently a Special Advisor to Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Ms. Moorehead has extensive experience building successful companies and valuable brands. She had a long successful career in the financial services industry that spans over 35 years. While she began her career at Merrill Lynch and CIBC, Ms. Moorehead was a co-founder and President of E*TRADE Canada. Ms. Moorehead is Chair of the Board of Merrco Payments and past Chair of the Governance Committee and Board member of Solium Capital. She also participates in the early stage ecosystem through iNovia Capital Board of Advisors, Creative Destruction Lab Strategic Advisory Board and 111 Advisory Committee. Since 2003, Ms. Moorehead has been a founder and business director of The Judy Project, one of Canada's leading leadership forums, uniquely designed for executive women ascending to C-suite positions at the University of Toronto's Joseph Rotman School of Management. Ms. Moorehead is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Leslie A. O’Donoghue
DIRECTOR
Leslie A. O’Donoghue
DIRECTOR
Leslie O’Donoghue is a respected C-Suite Executive with large international public company experience having led strategic planning, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, operations, corporate governance, legal affairs and enterprise risk management.
She is former Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer of Nutrien Ltd; the largest globally integrated agricultural solutions provider listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges with an enterprise value of $50 Billion.
She has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Calgary and Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University. She was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1989. Ms. O’Donoghue is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Edward D. (Ted) Prittie
Director
Edward D. (Ted) Prittie
Director
Edward D. (Ted) Prittie is currently Chief Executive Officer of RIM Incorporated. RIM is a Joint Venture with Iron Mountain. Ted is the majority owner, with Iron Mountain holding a minority shareholding.
RIM is focused on building the leading document storage business in Sub-saharan Africa. Prior to founding RIM, Ted was the founder of DocuGuard Ltd., the leading document storage company in Eastern Europe. DocuGuard was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2004, after which Ted joined the senior executive team of Iron Mountain as SVP Emerging Markets and for 14 years was responsible for Iron Mountain’s Emerging Markets business unit and Emerging markets M&A. During his time at Iron Mountain, Ted was responsible for Iron Mountain entering 15 new countries and acquiring 35+ companies. Ted holds a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. Ted is based in Budapest, Hungary where he has resided since 1990.
Ronnie Wahi
Director
Ronnie Wahi
Director
Ronnie is a partner in a public practice CPA firm and a seasoned Financial Officer, with experience in Operations, Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions. He has over 25 years of experience focused around building technology companies.
Ronnie held a variety of senior positions throughout his career, including CFO for Dye & Durham Corporation from its inception through to 2018. During his time as the CFO for the company, he led the finance function through multiple acquisitions and significant growth. Ronnie was also one of the original shareholders in OneMove Technologies, a predecessor to the Company.
Ronnie holds a BSc in Computing Science from Staffordshire University, and a CPA, CMA designation from the Certified Management Accountants Society of British Columbia.
Leadership Team
Matthew Proud
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Matthew Proud
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Matthew has been at the forefront of driving innovation and meaningful transformations within the Canadian legal services industry. His extensive strategic business and operations experience has been the driving force behind Dye & Durham’s exceptional growth.
Under Matthew’s leadership, Dye & Durham’s business has grown through multiple acquisitions and partnerships. Matthew is passionate about the continual reinforcement of Dye & Durham’s vision, values, and goals to drive clarity and purpose for the business.
In 2018, Matthew’s leadership was recognized when he was announced as one of CNW Group/The Caldwell Partners International Inc.’s Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honourees. Matthew holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Buckingham.
Martha Vallance
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Martha Vallance
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Martha has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions advisory and corporate finance matters. Martha previously spent 12 years in Investment & Corporate Banking at BMO Capital Markets, most recently holding senior roles within their mergers and acquisitions and Equity Capital Markets teams.
In this capacity, she supported companies in achieving their strategic objectives by advising them on complex transactions relating to acquisitions and sales (in each case, of both public companies and privately held assets), mergers, joint ventures and equity capital raising activities. In addition, Martha recently served as a Director on the Board of TMAC Resources, a TSX listed mining company, during the sale of the company which concluded in January 2021.
Martha holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Wojtek Dabrowski
CHIEF PEOPLE AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Wojtek Dabrowski
CHIEF PEOPLE AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
As Chief People and Communications Officer, Wojtek leads the company’s internal and external corporate communications, corporate marketing, and branding functions. He is an expert-level communications leader with a track record of protecting and enhancing global brands and delivering strategic communications counsel to senior executives and boards of directors.
Previously, he was founder and managing partner at Provident Communications Inc., an award-winning strategic communications and public relations firm. Before that, he served in a variety of progressively senior corporate communications and public relations leadership roles at Manulife Financial Corp., Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank Group. Wojtek also has an extensive background in daily business journalism, having served in reporting and editing roles at Thomson Reuters, the National Post and The Canadian Press.
Aaron Eichenlaub
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER
Aaron Eichenlaub
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER
Mr. Eichenlaub leads the company’s global sales organization and is responsible for Dye & Durham’s sales strategy in each of its markets around the world, identifying and executing on cross-sell and new-logo opportunities, growing contracted recurring revenue, unlocking new revenue streams and setting pricing.
Mr. Eichenlaub’s career in sales spans almost two decades. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President of Sales at HouseCanary, a U.S.-based, real-estate valuation technology company, where he rebuilt the company’s sales organization. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Sales at CoStar Group Inc., a publicly traded provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics, where he was responsible for more than 35,000 clients and approximately US$750 million in revenue and led almost 400 salespeople.
Frank Di Liso
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Frank Di Liso
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Frank leads Dye & Durham's finance and administration functions globally and is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of progressively senior finance experience, including the role of interim Chief Financial Officer at TMX Group Limited, which he held from August 2020 to June 2021.
He has also served as CFO of the Canadian Depository of Securities since 2018, and Treasurer of the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation since 2014. Prior to joining TMX Group, Frank held senior roles in the finance departments at Bell Canada and Rogers Communications. He obtained his Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 2001 and graduated from the University of Toronto with a Business Administration degree (Honours).
David Nash
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
David Nash
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Mr. Nash leads Dye & Durham’s product teams globally and is accountable for building the company’s next generation of SaaS, integrating emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and delivering innovative solutions which help Dye & Durham’s customers achieve more growth with less effort.
He most recently served as the Chief Product Officer at Board International, a cloud-based, private equity-owned SaaS business which helps companies surface insights, make better decisions and plan more thoughtfully for the future. At Board, he built the company’s first-ever global product management practice and delivered multiple product and platform releases embraced by customers within his first 12 months. Mr. Nash is a commercially focused SaaS product leader with more than 20 years of product experience at organizations like NAVEX, CDK Global (formerly ADP Dealer Services) and Intel Corp.