Derek McGeachie
President
Derek began his career at Procter & Gamble as a Brand Manager in Canada and later co-founded a Hong Kong-based trading company focused on brand representation for consumer packaged goods as well as print industry consumables. In university he co-founded University Calendars where he got his start in the printing industry and in 2003 he founded Mi5 Print & Digital, a company focused on providing best-in-class print communications and marketing materials. Derek has led Mi5’s growth over the past 2 decades and has been awarded as Canada’s fastest growing printer nine times. Mi5 employs 200 people and is located in a 180,000 sq/ft state of the art manufacturing & fulfilment center close to downtown Toronto and a 1.5hr drive to the US border.
Derek graduated Ivey Business School in the top 10% of his class.
Activities and societies: Varsity Rowing Team, Class President, Floor President in Residence, volunteer head of the CNIB Annual Golf Tournament. When not working Derek enjoys spending time with his family, sailboat racing and flying.
Andie Lindsay
Executive VP Client Success
Andie Lindsay is an experienced business leader and public relations executive. Driven by passion and a keen interest in others’ success, she takes pride in providing the best customer experience possible. As the Executive VP Client Success at Mi5, her mission is high-level client satisfaction and partnership planning. She is the link from customer to the heart of Mi5, ensuring our client partners grow and flourish in their dealings with our company.
In addition to her primary job functions, Andie is a key part of social and cultural development at Mi5. She has been recognized for her commitment to helping companies with their diversity portfolios and championing women in business.
With a successful career in PR, marketing and corporate social responsibility, Andie led fundraising teams at Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation and the Royal Winter Fair before rising to National Director of Corporate and Community Giving at CNIB. She took an entrepreneurial turn to join Sylvan Learning Centres GTA as President to lead and directly manage a period of rapid growth from 3 locations to 13 over a very successful 6 years. Andie understands business relationships and what it takes to be successful. Her knowledge of running a fast-growing business is an asset in her work with marketing and procurement teams and various agencies partnering with Mi5. Andie quickly understands our partners’ needs and what we must do to make their programs and results an overall success.
Steven Tahk
Executive Vice President and General Manager
“I come from a long line of printers; I grew up with ink on my hands. I have watched as the needs of print buyers changed over the years, and our industry stayed the same. Mi5 exists to be different. We are actively defining what it is to be a modern printer. We offer real solutions and deliver amazing products and services at a fantastic market price because we can and they can’t. We have utilized passion, craft, and science to create and harness the very best technology in the industry. Our amazing team of professionals supports this; there is a palpable “can do” culture at Mi5 that we celebrate and revel in. For our customers, dealing with Mi5 is a very different experience – the kind you have always hoped for in a business partner.”
André Meurer
Director of Business Development
André brings to Mi5 an exciting record of landing flagship accounts, building brands and growing revenues from start-up concept through to multi-million dollar success at premier brands and agencies like National Post Online, Rogers Media and FCB to name a few.
He thrives on creating, selling and serving custom-tailored marketing opportunities that cross platforms, span organizations and capitalize on the specific strengths of the best media options – whatever matrix of traditional, digital, events, shopper marketing, activations, custom content, social or direct response.
Continuously raising the bar and building high-value marketing relationships with some of the world’s most exciting brands and client partners, including: Porter Airlines, HelloFresh, SleepCountry, Starbucks, HBC, Sephora, TJX, TD, Rogers, Brunico Communications, The Rotman School of Management, AB InBev, Google and more.
Tory Millar
VP Finance
Motivated and results-driven Finance leader with a diverse skill set.
Throughout his career Tory has demonstrated the capacity to quickly learn new topics and to be adaptable in many different roles and situations. Tory’s key strengths are a structured approach to problem-solving and advanced communication skills. In addition, he excels at improving business performance, collaborating across functional areas, and inspiring teams and colleagues.
Strong experience with both front-office / client-facing teams as well as infrastructure/support groups provides a broad base of knowledge that Tory has brought to Mi5.