Kurtis Vermont, Founder
Meet Kurtis
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Kurtis is an entrepreneur and strategist with 13 years of experience driving growth across SaaS sales, digital advertising, and market research, alongside government and community development. His commercial background spans contact centre telephony/VoIP platforms, native and digital advertising, and tech driven research solutions, where he has led revenue-generating efforts contributing to multi-million-dollar SaaS growth across North America.
Through his successes in business development, public relations, and strategic communications, Kurtis brings a sales-hardened, operator’s mindset to his work, combining revenue discipline with narrative strategy to move stakeholders and deliver measurable economic outcomes.
Kurtis's work sits at the intersection of business development, government relations, and communications, because that’s where decisions actually get made. Find a snapshot of his professional experience below:
Produced seven figures in revenue by winning contracts to deploy hybrid contact centre VOIP technology for customer service facing enterprises across
28 U.S. states as part of highly trained sales teams, consistently engaging and converting senior
decision-makers in competitive environments.
Built and executed Account Based Marketing and digital growth strategies that generated six-figure results, including
taking a client base from $0 to $20K MRR in under 10 months, driven by effective O&O and market research
products for premium publishers and advertising agencies respestively.
Co-built one of Canada’s most recognized political platforms, earning top national rankings
and securing a six-figure sponsorship from a Canadian national wireless brand. Used media as disciplined
stakeholder leverage.
Managed stakeholder engagement and communications for the MP for Whitby and the Councillor for Scarborough North respectively, including helping to coordinate advocacy and depute
on behalf of Scarborough stakeholders, which stopped the proposed dissolution of Scarborough North, an immigrant-majority riding in east Toronto.
Led advocacy and fund development for a community organization focused on criminal justice reform in Toronto, as well as helping bring hundreds of first-time youth delegates into
the federal political process in Ottawa for a grassroots voter mobilization organization.
Founded Vermont Strategies to integrate lived experience, business development execution, government relations
intelligence, and communications discipline focused on Canada, the US, the Caribbean and Africa.
Currently Chair of the Whitby Chamber of Commerce Advocacy Committee, former Chair of the
Scarborough Business Association Policy & Advocacy Committee, advancing procurement,
zoning, workforce development, and entrepreneurship reforms.