Sandra D’Souza, CPA, CA is the Founder of Sandstone Solutions Group, a boutique firm dedicated to providing interim management solutions and recruiting services to companies of all sizes. With over 9 years in the recruitment business and over 14 years of experience in management positions in small private and large public organizations, she has the breadth of experience to work with her clients to understand their business needs and work with them to find the right resourcing solutions for their organizations.
Sandra’s objective is to help owner/managers build strong, flexible management teams to execute their vision and generate success. As their businesses grow and expand, she wants to make sure that her clients have the right resources available, at the right time, to help them reach their goals.

Murray Johnston
Murray Johnston acts as Chief Financial Officer on special projects or on an interim basis.

Businesses do not grow by chance; growth needs resources. Plan for and add new markets, innovative technology, products or services with the drive of people and fuel of finance.

After twenty years in senior finance and management Murray brings expertise focused on driving growth whether in national or international companies. He brings knowledge of best practices in various disciplines including M&A and financing. Industry knowledge includes organizations in marketing and branded consumer goods, manufacturing, and services.

Mastermind Solutions Inc. is a flexible, dynamic Toronto business consulting firm, specializing in strategic planning, marketing, financial and organizational design that delivers top line revenue growth, higher profits, satisfied customers, motivated staff and lower operating costs. Our goal is to deliver a business growth strategy for our clients in order to maximize their bottom line. Our services are comprehensive and fully customizable to your needs.

PROFILE

Dennis Rak has 25 years of successful business ownership experience plus 10 years in senior executive and management positions at the operations level in design engineering, manufacturing and service industries.

As a consultant delivering integrated operational and management solutions, his field of work is the “shop floor” where inputs are transformed by human and machine processes into valuable goods, service and knowledge.

Taking a collaborative, holistic approach, and through binocular lenses of LEAN principles and Theory of Constraints, Dennis performs diagnostic operational audits to generate innovative, sustainable process improvements.

The goal is to achieve profitable, high performance operations that aligns with the strategic business plan while being agile and responsive to business contingencies.

Dennis sits as director on several boards of professional and community organizations, and is an active member of many industry associations and educational institutions.