Paul Tobey, CEO

Paul Tobey is the CEO of TrainingBusinessPros, and has the passion of a Lead Trainer as Canada's Top Internet Marketing and Social Media Trainer.  He’s trained over 22,000 business owners across Canada and the USA, to a high degree of positive outcome, with some of his clients recognizing Paul as their catalyst to helping them earn millions.

He’s trained authors, speakers, internet marketers, CEO’s, and business owners from all industries, everything from chocolate makers, to car part manufacturers, from chemical salts to spiritual wellness and everything in between. (See testimonials here). He’s also a hand’s on type of guy, that likes to oversee and do his own search engine optimization and social media.  So when he trains, he’s always current.

If you google his name, you’ll find thousands of references to his music career as a concert jazz pianist.  Don’t get confused, that’s him.  He couldn’t become a Diana Krall or a Michael Buble, so he became an internet marketer out of pure necessity.  Through much trial and error he figured out how to sell online, everything from advanced piano lessons, to christmas sheet music, to “tinnitus” programs, to social media webinars. That’s the beginning of his life at CEO.  People started asking him “how are you doing that”.  Shortly after, he got “certified” as a trainer, and since trained at over 100 events per year.

Since 2007, the training business grew 400% a year, much through word of mouth.  Perhaps it’s that Paul teaches more than just “how to’s”.  He’s gone through the “breakthrough”, and businesses need more than just the how to.  They need the “why”.  And as Paul trains, you’ll see that the testimonials people naturally gravitate on thanking them for a breakthrough the ‘personal” development vs. a ‘how to’  aspect of the training.

Paul Tobey became an in-demand speaker, speaking for entrepreneur based conferences around North America.  His first book “Suggestology, - More than a marketing secret” will be available from our office in the fall and through retail Spring of 2010 published by Burman Books.

Nancy Houle
VP of Operations

Nancy Houle and Paul Tobey are a husband-and-wife team, partners in life and work. Married for over 16 years, they have a 14 year old son, and Nancy spent most of her adult life as Paul’s agent in the music business.  When they co-founded TrainingBusinessPros in 2007, Nancy’s role was to oversee all aspects of the operations from the ground up. Nancy takes on an active role in the office, managing everything with the exception of the SEO, Social Media and Email Marketing which Paul keeps a hands-on approach to and oversees himself.

Paul Krane
Director of Business Development

Paul Krane has enjoyed a 20 year executive sales career and held executive management positions in Fortune 500 corporations

• major and key commercial accounts
• provincial and federal accounts
• vertical market accounts which included Legal, Accounting and Real Estate for Fortune 500 office technology corporations.

In his executive management positions he developed successful marketing programs, sales training programs and a customized prospect development system that greatly improved both sales tracking, activity management and forecasting for companies such as Xerox, Pitney Bowes Canada and IKON Office Solutions. Paul has brought his consulting services to the Nuclear industry for the past 3 years, managing quality assurance programs at the largest construction project in North America at the Bruce Power Restart Project.

On a personal note, Paul Krane partnered with his sister Nora to open a centre for children with learning disabilities which offers family counseling services by a qualified staff of Psychologists. The Harbour Centre is now celebrating its 10th year of helping families and children.

Mark Rosenfield
Executive Director of Product Development, Merchandising, Licensing and Trademarks

A veteran in the entertainment industry, Mark Rosenfield was one of the originators of “K-Tel”, garnering the company millions for its original sales methods which included in-store showcasing, call-to-action ad buys, and keen sense of “info-mercial” style of demonstrate-able products.  After a hugely successful run in K-Tel, Mark became an executive for BMG music in London, England, where he would continue to dominate the market with “theme” records, and ad “spins” that would again garner his division millions.  Mark’s area of expertise is product development, merchandising, and licensing with a keen nose for recognizing market opportunities and emerging sales cycles.

Ivonne Sanchez
Office Manager

She is responsible for planning, organization, and controlling of the organization, including the preparation, communication, coordination and storage of data to support production and other important operations of an industrial establishment. She is also responsible for the marketing automation and communications at the company. She monitors the work processes and evaluates the outcome. Updates and changes on the website. Monitors changes and updates in the social media and internet marketing world and a whole bunch of other things with a smile on her face.

Jonathan Rosenfield
Trainer’s Assistant

Jonathan has been with us two years. You will find Jonathan sitting at the back of the room supporting our students during live trainings. Since taking our courses, he started a website with 2 of his buddies www.thisbonustrack.com which gets over half a million unique visitors a month! He’s in his second year at U of T, studying Urban Planning. When he’s not assisting Paul during a live training, he is in the office assisting Paul with web duties.   Our clients love him and we often get requests for adoption, even though he’s not our kid!

Thomas Kauffman
Event Logistics

When you need a reliable go-to guy, it’s nice to have a guy like Thomas around.  He’s the guy that keeps track of inventory, is there for set up and tear down when it comes to live events and tradeshows.  He’s the guy that monitors what needs to be repaired, what needs to be purchased, and is the guy that make sure every event goes smoothly.  He’s the “fix it” guy, and ‘make it work” guy.  He’s the guy that has to know everything there is to know about sound, film and fixing drawers.  He’s always the guy to show up with a coffee when you need it. We love him for all those reasons, and he’s just a great guy.

Chartered Accountant

For the first few years, we had his collegue who was a chain smoker, which drove us crazy.  When we moved location, we ended up with Chuck.  Chuck has over 150 clients, and he says that out of his 150 clients he does have, we are the one that is the most profitable, yet we give him the hardest time.  I’m not sure why that is, but it’s a love hate relationship.  It works and keeps everybody on track and within budget.

Mills and Mills - Attorney at Law