Ted Wagstaff
PRESIDENT - NORTH45
A native of Montreal, Ted has more than 25 years of sales, corporate partnerships, property naming rights and strategic marketing experience. He brings an innovative approach to revenue development – imagining and seeing opportunities others don’t. His reputation is built on finding the strategic alignment between two parties and facilitating the negotiations of a partnership that has measurable impact for both.
Revenue generation, new market development and forging transformational partnerships are at the core of Ted’s expertise. Using his extensive network, he has worked across virtually every industry sector with companies ranging from early-stage startups to ones in the Fortune 500. Ted has successfully brokered more than $100Million in business partnerships across North America, Europe and Asia with organizations including RBC Royal Bank, the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club, Health Canada, the Inter-American Development Bank, the NFL, Mizuno, the PGA Tour, Growcer, Fanvision, the University of Ottawa, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), the Council of the Great Lakes Region, Natural Resources Canada, IBM, Citibank and UPS.
Ted’s professional passion is engineering successful partnership and helping companies attain transformational growth. He has lectured at both the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College and has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences. As a volunteer, he has served as a Board Member at the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre, the Canadian Club of Ottawa, the University of Ottawa’s Campaign Cabinet and many major fundraising events.
A proud graduate of the University of Ottawa, Ted is bilingual (French and English) with conversational German and Spanish. He lives in Ottawa and has 3 adult children.