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Robert Friend, MBA
		Mr. Friend is a Management Consultant with twenty-three years’ full-time experience in providing a range of consulting services, with an emphasis on evaluation projects and services for Aboriginal clients.  Services include the following:   Public Policy Issues           -Labour market assessments and Organizational Design           -Benefit-Cost studies & Risk Management assessments           -Impacts on business sectors of specific public policies           -Economic Impacts & Socio-economic impacts           -Assessments of particular industries and sectors           -Analyses of the competitive position of particular businesses or            sectors Business Advisory Services           -Program Evaluations and Management Audits           -Operations and Business Performance Improvement           -Market Studies, Feasibility Studies, and Business Plans           -Strategic Planning, Service Level Agreements, Asset Management           -Transportation Planning, Costing, and Logistics           -Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Valuations   He has provided consulting services to Aboriginal clients in the areas of: creation of a Remedial Management Plan, organizational re-design, labour market analyses, financial feasibility studies for economic development projects, development of project risk assessment tools, business planning and due diligence.  Aboriginal clients have included: -Mohawk Council of Kanesatake, Kanesatake, Quebec -Tewatohnhi’saktha Economic Development Commission, Kahnawą:ke, Quebec -Health Canada First Nation and Inuit Health Branch, Ottawa, Ontario -Mohawk Internet Technologies, Kahnawą:ke, Quebec -Paul Communications, Kahnawą:ke, Quebec -Kativik Regional Development Council, Salluit, Quebec -Kahnawą:ke Marina, Kahnawą:ke, Quebec -Mohawk Council of Kahnawą:ke, Kahnawą:ke, Quebec -Air Creebec, Val d’Or, Quebec -Kingsclear First Nation, Kingsclear, New Brunswick -Various entrepreneurs, Kahnawą:ke, Quebec He graduated in 1986 from McGill University with a Master of Business Administration and in 1984 from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Commerce, with Distinction.  Mr. Friend obtained the designation of Certified Management Consultant and Chartered Administrator.  He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation.  Based in Montreal, he is bilingual in spoken and written French and English.