Big Data and AI Growth Strategies

Chris brings a wealth of healthcare experience, having worked in pharmacy retail for over 28 years. Most recently, Chris served as President, CEO, and board member for Neighbourly Pharmacy. He led the company’s growth from its early stages to becoming the third-largest national retail pharmacy network in Canada. Under his leadership, Neighbourly grew over 600% through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth, and now has nearly 300 locations across Canada. Chris also guided the company through its initial public offering in 2021 and continues to provide support and counsel as Strategic Advisor.

Chris also spent 23 years at Shoppers Drug Mart in various leadership positions overseeing merchandising, district operations, and optimization projects, with his last role being Vice President of National Operations. Chris sits on several private company boards and is a private investor and advisor for several multisite retail and healthcare businesses.

A true change agent, Achille has helped many leading global organizations build out impactful analytics programs. These programs have repeatedly realized a significant ROI by embedding Achille’s framework for making data-based decisions into corporate culture.

The data strategies Achille implemented enhanced operational efficiencies across 2,400+ stores. The analytics team also provided key support for integrations involving Loblaw’s notable acquisitions of Shoppers Drug Mart and Zellers’ prescription files.

After transforming one of the largest supply chains in North America at Loblaw Companies Ltd., Achille developed the organization’s first-ever analytics program in collaboration with Queens University. The successful program grew to become one of the country’s largest, with 500+ analytics practitioners.

Achille was invited to replicate his success in driving change as an Executive Consultant at the International Institute of Analytics. He is also a Founding Member of the Advisory Board for the Smith School of Business’s ground-breaking Management Analytics and Artificial Intelligence master’s degree programs. Additionally, Achille serves on the Editorial Board for the UK-based Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation. He is also Co-Chair of the Canadian Operational Research Society’s Industry Practitioners Committee.

Andrew is an accomplished Sales Leader with over 25 years of sales experience leading high performance sales teams in growth industries including Cloud and Analytics.  He is never afraid to dream big and be creative; thrives on building winning, customer obsessed cultures by modeling a disciplined approach to revenue growth and value based selling.  

Prior to MicroStrategy, Andrew held sales leadership roles with Sisense, Honeywell and IBM Corporation. 

Andrew is a proud MUN Alumni, graduating from Business with a Bcomm Honors in 1995.  An avid cyclist, die hard sports fan and hobby golfer.  He now lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife, Suanne, and daughter, Leah. 

He is never afraid to dream big and be creative; thrives on building winning, customer obsessed cultures by modeling a disciplined approach to revenue growth and value based selling.