As leading SR&ED consultants in Canada, Braithwaite is staffed by exceptional employees around the globe including a wide range of diplomas, masters, and degrees. Our family focus has allowed Braithwaite to grow and flourish for over 30+ years. Get to know some of the Braithwaite family below.
Kathy has been the Chief Financial Officer for Braithwaite for over 24 years.
She is an experienced controller with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. skilled in business planning, financial accounting, start-ups, and corporate finance.
Partner, Head of Sales and Marketing
1-514-916-6680
alice.sige@abgi-canada.com
After graduating with a master’s degree in finance, Alice worked as a consultant in financing, taxation and innovation strategy for several years. These experiences allowed her to work for different industries in Europe and North America, but also to evaluate the offer and weaknesses of some consulting services.
Alice joined the ABGI Canada in 2017 because of its incredible ability to truly serve our clients. Today, she manages Sales and Marketing for ABGI and Braithwaite Canada and helps companies from all sectors develop their innovation projects.
Head of Consulting
1-416-499-2861 x245
mmayer@braithwaite.ca
Matt has been with Braithwaite since 2012 but has taken on the Operations Manager role for all Braithwaite locations (Canada, Ireland and the UK) since 2013.
As the VP of Operations, Matt is involved with all aspects of the business. With his education background from Seneca College, Matt focuses on improving and maintaining the internal Braithwaite process as well as customer care. It is his mission to bring out the best in his employees and customers by providing excellent and exceptional service.
Senior Taxation Consultant
1-416-499-2861 x315
cdumitriu@braithwaite.ca
Carmen accounts for an extensive 16 years full time experience in SR&ED tax credits claims preparation. During her SR&ED claims preparation practice, she accumulated solid experience with CRA review process and requirements, having preparing taxation and financial part of the credits for more than 3,000 claims, as well as having participated in quite a few scientific reviews in her time at Braithwaite Technology Consultants Inc. This experience helped her acquire knowledge on CRA’s expectations regarding work and expenses eligibility and how a claim is structured and presented from CRA’s perspective.
Office Manager, Senior Accountant
1-416-499-2861 x242
flopez@braithwaite.ca
Employed by Braithwaite for over 8 years, Fred has an extensive accounting background.
Fred is always learning and developing new skills to bring to the Braithwaite team.
Sales & Marketing, Market Research
1-416-499-2861 x308
aormrod@braithwaite.ca
Aki plays a leading role with sales lead generation, including in relation to market research and marketing for the SR&ED Tax Credit Claim.
She particularly focuses on targeted social media marketing and engagement, profiling Braithwaite’s success and the latest industry news to our audiences.
Aki has more than a decade of experience with marketing and sales, most recently with Heineken K.K.
Business Development Representative
1-416-499-2861 x240
rrobinson@braithwaite.ca
Richard is the newest member of the Braithwaite team, following 13 years with a large French Canadian steelmaker, in sales, customer service and operations. Over his years in the industry, Richard has formed extensive long term relationships through providing excellent customer service and solutions. He looks forward to forging ahead and working with industry and businesses from a different perspective.
Client Services Director
1-416-499-2861 x232
fshawera@braithwaite.ca
Frances joins our team bringing her
expertise with the financial tax sales role to focus on new business
development, as well as our current client relationships.
Frances is a passionate and
proven sales professional who has developed strong relationships within
the financial sales industry over the course of her career and brings that
expertise and drive to our team.
Business Development Representative
1-613-290-5427
nsmith@braithwaite.ca
Nancy spent the last few decades aligning challenges and initiatives with best practice solutions.
Nancy look forward to helping Canadian businesses maximize access to innovation funding.
Senior SR&ED Consultant
1-416-499-2861 x310
cmakowka@braithwaite.ca
Carole joined Braithwaite at the turn of the century from an entrepreneurial marketing and business background. With over 40 years’ experience in client relations, she is a Senior SRED Consultant and Regional Manager for Southwestern Ontario, gifted with being able to match client objectives to services that meet and exceed their expectations. Knowledgeable on the program and other initiatives and expert at account management, Carole has contributed to our low client attrition rate by her ongoing attention to detail and relationship building. Always intuitive with an eye on the long term, she looks beyond today to long term growth for continued funding through innovation. Carole is expert at ensuring our clients meet their strategic objectives.
Senior SR&ED Consultant
1-416-499-2861 x324
tdagraca@braithwaite.ca
Tony has been in the business since 1998, responsible for identifying potential sales leads, contacting companies, arranging appointments, delivering presentations, and closing sales. Tony had to demonstrate an understanding of the basic tax concepts of an SR&ED Tax Credit claim while keeping informed of current SR&ED tax developments. Resulting in the following: Outperforming all 2002-2011 targets; producing total revenues for BTCI through his business development; managing over 100 accounts in Ontario; presenting to companies’ Executives, Presidents, CFOs, and Vice Presidents; efficiently managing multiple ongoing sales opportunities and client expectations; delivering exceptional communication skills resulting in effective BTCI services; dealing effectively and comfortably with both internal and external client personnel of all levels and disciplines; assuming significant responsibility, ownership, and accountability. Due to his high annual targets, BTCI has become a leader in the SR&ED market.
Senior Technical Advisor
1-416-499-2861 x338
jng@braithwaite.ca
Jerry has worked on SR&ED claims since 2010, originally as a technical writer. His duties and expertise expanded to include technical interviews, documentation preparation, as well as claim audit defense. From his extensive experience in various aspects of SR&ED claim preparation and defense processes, Jerry is highly effective in identifying, extracting, and interpreting technical and financial information to accurately and efficiently complete a claim. In the event of SR&ED claim audits, Jerry will equip claimants with the necessary knowledge and expectations as well as work closely with taxpayers to ensure that the appropriate documentation is concise and easily digestible. He is also well versed in the subtle nuances of the SR&ED program and CRA’s interpretation of the Income Tax Law as it relates to SR&ED, allowing him to effectively address any concerns that might arise at audits.
Senior Science Advisor
1-416-499-2861 x230
gmolev@braithwaite.ca
Greg is actively involved in scientific research since 2000. He has experience in analytical and organic chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology and material science. Greg authored 18 publications in leading scientific journals, registered a US patent and presented at many international conferences.Since 2013 Greg has worked on a variety of SR&ED claims (preparation and support). During that time, he prepared successful claims for many companies from various industries, focusing on chemical engineering, cannabis, food, pharma, and clinical research related corporations of all sizes. The majority of his clients were approved by CRA, and those audited had their claim successfully defended. His passion for research and a deep understanding of science and technology are most helpful, both in technical narratives preparation and in supporting his clients in their ongoing projects. As part of his consulting, Greg provides training on how to convert certain sections of routine work into SR&ED eligible projects.
In addition to SR&ED practice, Greg is an R&D consultant in two cosmetics manufacturing companies. He assists in developing research plans and runs hands-on experiments when necessary
SR&ED Software Specialist
1-416-499-2861 x313
gswamy@braithwaite.ca
Geoff has more than 15 years of writing experience, consisting of creating technical training manuals and workflow procedures, developing and structuring content, editing, quality assurance, and interviewing SMEs. For over 12 of these years, Geoff specialized as an SR&ED consultant, preparing and successfully defending SR&ED claims for clients in Canada and the UK – including 2 years managing an SR&ED Technical writing department. Geoff has been involved in all aspects of the SR&ED claim process, from project eligibility scoping to audit support/defense. His primary responsibilities include interviewing SMEs to identify eligible activities, preparing technical reports, and data analysis of project records, supporting technical documentation, and time-tracking tools to establish qualifying project expenditures. He has prepared SR&ED claims for industries including IT/software, engineering, and manufacturing, and has developed a comprehensive understanding of these industries’ operations. This has been reflected in a high approval rate for Geoff’s submitted claims, and he has successfully defended those that were selected for audit by CRA.
He also has 2 years of experience working in database management and network administration. Here, Geoff’s ability to translate complex technical information into easily digestible formats was used to develop documentation for staff training purposes. These training manuals included visual aids, functional descriptions, and operator interfaces for software programs and internal technical staff operating procedures.
Senior Technical Advisor
1-416-499-2861 x236
gpotluri@braithwaite.ca
Since 2016, Geetha has been actively engaged in Scientific Research (secondary research) and skilled in conducting in-depth analysis to identify and protect novel ideas and assisted in patent claim drafting. She has collaborated with R & D Scientists across various domains including but not limited to autonomous driving, robotics, power and energy control/management technologies, electronic sensor controls, biomedical sensors, etc., Since 2021, Geetha has assisted in various SR&ED claim submissions in the fields of automotive, artificial intelligence/machine learning, robotics, wireless technology, computer science and information technology. Her prior experience in IP research and curiosity in exploring advances in technology contributed to accurately assessing and scoping SR&ED eligibility. She will be assisting the clients in identifying activities qualifying for SR&ED program and prepare detailed technical narratives. She has assisted the clients through several audit reviews and has fair understanding on the gray areas of SR&ED program, allowing her to prepare the clients for audit reviews, gather & compile scientific documentation (evidence), establish reasonable expectations, and resolve any concerns that may arise.
Senior SR&ED Consultant
1-416-499-2861 x363
loyama@braithwaite.ca
Leonard has actively been involved in scientific research since 1998. He has extensive experience in the manufacturing, automotive, mechanical engineering, tool & die and extrusion industries. Since joining Braithwaite in 2007, Leonard has filed over 200 successful claims by upgrading the strength and eligibility of the claim, improving documentation and development through an SR&ED Birth Certificate process and developing SR&ED Time Tracking Templates
Professional and Industry Experience:
Professional Engineer,
Research and Development
Mike holds a degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as well as a Certificate in Management from universities in Poland, Germany and Edmonton, Canada.
After spending more than 20 years in various technical and managerial positions in the Oil and Gas Industry, including international consulting in many parts of the world, Mike started providing SR&ED services in the year 2001. Over this period Mike has successfully completed more than 400 SR&ED Claims for more than 60 clients.
Mike is involved in all aspects of SR&ED Claim preparation, from initial qualifying interview to evaluate the eligibility of the project, through writing technical reports, preparing cost estimates and defending Claims during the SR&ED review.
900-2235 Sheppard Ave E
Toronto, ON M2J 5B5
Office: 1-416-499-2861
Email: info@braithwaite.ca
eFax: 1-437-889-0955
102-165 Saint-Zotique West
Montréal, QC H2S 1P5
Office: 1-514-495-6590
Email: contact@abgi-canada.com
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