Jason “Deuce” Dussault
Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Board of Directors
Creating and collaborating with several companies over the past 15 years, Mr. Dussault has worked to take small start-up companies public, accessing financing from U.S., Canadian and European sources and providing corporate guidance. In 2005, after successfully raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for his client companies, he finally decided to pursue his ultimate passion. From that first inspired leap, Dussault Apparel™, Inc. was born. A year later, his first line of fashions sold out almost immediately, establishing his company and launching Dussault Custom Apparel. Today, this cutting-edge design aesthetic and meticulous attention to detail are highly sought after by leading celebrities and trendsetters. As the company’s creative visionary, he works with Head Designer Peter Tsang to expand on a unique style, honing his creations through an intimate connection to some of the world’s leading celebrities and elite from the worlds of entertainment and sports.
Terence Fitzgerald
President, Board of Directors
Mr. Fitzgerald brings to the company 16-years of corporate experience in the licensing, design, entertainment, and manufacturing arenas. After graduating from university in British Columbia, Canada, he moved to Portland, Oregon to create the McFarlane Group of companies with partner Todd McFarlane. Mr. McFarlane is best known as the world’s top selling comic book artist. Together in 1992, he and Mr. Fitzgerald formed Todd McFarlane Productions, Inc., a comic book company that to date has sold over 125 million comic books in 30 different languages worldwide. He was then integral in the acquisition and subsequent expansion of a corporation that would later be known as McFarlane Toys. This company is known for its highly detailed action figures of licensed properties such as the Simpsons, Halo, the Matrix, Kiss, Elvis, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL, the Terminator and the Beatles. With his vital involvement at the executive level, the McFarlane Group has grown from a two-person organization to one that now includes 150+ employees in four countries, with sales in the nine-figure range, with distribution with retailing partners such as Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Toys’R’Us and Kaybe. As President and COO of Todd McFarlane Entertainment, Inc., he oversaw development and production of feature films and television series for New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Home Box Office, UPN and Fox Television. Mr. Fitzgerald’s role as producer and writer/director of these and other projects has garnered him two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Award nominations with one win, nine MTV Music Video Award nominations wins and one MuchMusic Music Video Award
Jason Sundar
Vice-President, Corporate Finance
Combining an impressive background in high finance and capital markets with a profound entrepreneurial spirit, Jason Sundar began his career at the age of 17 working for the B.C. Attorney General’s office, where he developed and promoted youth programs to protect high-risk youth. At 20 years of age Jason became the youngest facilitator of corporate training programs for Peak Performance Systems — a Brian Tracy International Network focused on the psychology of achievement, goal setting, professional selling skills, advances selling skills and B2B selling skills. Among their numerous clients were Yorkton Securities and Crown Packaging. By the age of 23, Mr. Sundar was the top performer for investor relations specialists PCMI. Leaving that position, he partnered with Olivia Communications, raising over five million dollars and taking the organization from three people to a staff to 24. Since founding Sundar Communications Group in 2002, he has personally raised over $50 million for his clients worldwide.
Robert Mintak
CFO, COO, Board of Directors
Mr Robert Mintak, has over 25 years of experience in the retail and wholesale industries. His track record in management includes five years with the Robinson Group, which was named one of the 50 best managed companies in Canada in 2005, and ten years of management experience in retail. Mr. Mintak is also a certified lighting designer. Mr. Mintak has been the CFO of Open Sundaes Bath and Body Products for the past 3 years.
Jeremy Poirier
Vice-President, Investor Relations
Establishing his passion for the business world at a very young age, Jeremy moved to Vancouver to become an entrepreneur and work in the public markets when he was 18 years old. Over the past three years, Jeremy has been a significant player in the success of Deuce Jeans and Open Sundae ventures. Born into a highly supportive family of entrepreneurs, Jeremy has worked with over thirty publicly traded companies, and has been President of Seacove Investor Relations for two years.
Peter Tsang
Director of Design/Manufacturing
As Dussault’s Director of Design and Manufacturing, Peter Tsang is a rapidly emerging voice in the design world. Graduating from the Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design and earning a Diploma in Textile Design from British Columbia’s Capilano College, Mr. Tsang went on to receive numerous distinctions as an emerging designer, including Finalist in the Smirnoff Experience Fashion Competition. In 2004, he became Lead Designer and Partner in Pierrejale, a high-end women’s clothing line, where he went on to design lines for Toronto Fashion Week and other prominent fashion events, earning a Canadian New Designer Award Nomination from Fashion Expert Awards in 2005. He then moved to Dussault, where his sales booth design for the Summer 2007 MAGIC trade show in Las Vegas was distinguished from among 3,300 contestants with the Award For The Most Innovative Booth Design.
Tina Baird
Vice-President, Corporate Communications
Tina Baird has been responsible for media relations, public relations, and advertising for Dussault Custom Ink since the launch of the first collection in 2005. In addition to handling Dussault she has twenty-five years experience providing media relations, advertising, publicity, marketing, corporate communications, and public relations. Tina, a University of British Columbia graduate, has represented individuals, private and public companies, as well as charitable organizations, in the areas of retail; film and television; performing and visual arts; publishing; specialty travel; events; and entertainment. For her clients she has designed and supervised international, national and locally targeted communication, publicity and marketing campaigns. A sampling of Ms. Baird’s past client list includes ICE Diamonds, Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc., the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Whistler Resort Association, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Granville Island Office, The Western Magazine Awards Foundation, Travel Concepts Inc., Entertainment Technologies Inc., Blanche McDonald School of Fashion and Design, Capilano College Extension Programs, and Voyageur Film Capital Corporation.
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