1. Gregory.melchior@canursafinance.com
GREGORY MELCHIOR
HIGHLIGHTS:
 Experienced C-Suite executive, data analytics visionary/designer, entrepreneur and global capital markets
trader with 20+ years working on various projects in big data analytics, trading models and start-up
technology companies.
 Professional history includes 4 years working for RBC Global Capital Markets and 6 years for Merrill Lynch.
 Cross industry experience with various projects in oil/natgas, professional sports, real estate and capital
markets amongst others
 MBA and BA in economics
 CSC and RR designations
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Provide C-Suite leadership and data analytics design and vision. Recent management roles at the following
organizations:
4D Virtual World Inc. (CEO/Co-Founder) June 2015 – present
CanUrsa Finance (Founder) August 2013 – Present
Bank of Montreal (employee) Sept 2010 – Aug 2013
More specifically:
 Extensive experience in developing and designing data analytics modelling and visualization techniques in
the financial services and the real estate industry, technical system design, development, data testing, six
sigma to agile methodologies such as SCRUM
 Negotiated large scale financing and mergers/acquisition structures in the oil/natgas business in North
America.
 Identify/evaluate data analytic design and process options to address key business problems, perform gap
analysis recommending solutions while applying industry best practices, and provide shareholder value.
 Develop SAAS models, allocate resources, evaluate risk and build necessary contingencies to meet
aggressive implementation timelines while managing the overall product development on time /on budget.
Subject matter expert in data analytics, able to act as business analyst as well as consult on functional
design data analytic models (neural networks).
 Identify and assess problem solutions; determine and communicate impacts and evaluate solutions
through cost/benefit analysis of changes on budget, schedule, resources, scope and overall program.
WORK EXPERIENCE
4D Virtual World Inc, Toronto, Canada (4dvw.com)
Role: Co-Founder and CEO
Responsibilities:
- Visionary behind the 4D Platform.
- Accountable for the implementation of the vision of 4D and developing the real time 3D platform and
big data analytics
- Provided key revenue streams with large B2B customers in furniture retailing and real estate
development industries.
- Executed on negotiating with IBM to be one of the first startups in their Innovation Space.
- Managed the product development team at IBM’s Innovation Space. Oversaw the daily scrum
sessions, implemented a two year product development road map, Gantt Chart, outlined and identified

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the key problem that the SAAS model was to solve; built in cost benefit and shareholder value
validation processes.
- Implemented fiscal budget as a reporting issuer.
- Work with team to manage escalations, challenges and roadblocks for successful delivery of MVP on
time and under budget.
- Implemented data hooks, classification and tree analysis for the data analytics in coordination with
Watson.
- Oversee the data analytics methodologies implemented; Co-Occurrence grouping, Similarity Matching,
Regression Analysis, OLAP systems and Link Prediction.
CanUrsa Finance, Toronto, Canada
Role: President and Founder
Responsibilities:
- Set up a small boutique merchant bank that specialized in mining, oil/natgas and real estate
transactions.
- Implemented fiscal budget
- Consulted in major billion dollar oil deals in North America in 2014 with some of the largest national
and multinational players in the industry.
- Oversee and support best practices and methodologies
Merrill Lynch, Toronto, Canada
Role: Head of Foreign Exchange and Director of Fixed Income Trading
Responsibilities:
- Trader in the global foreign exchange and fixed income markets with a specialty in Usd/Cad spot
- Implemented a STIRT operation
- Implemented strategic foreign exchange and front end bonding trading opportunities for firm
- Conceptualized and produced analysis demonstrating standard deviation moves in currency directly
after economic data release and currency's ability to sustain. The model achieved an alpha of $3
million per annum in profitability for the firm.
- As part of team, implemented the following trading structures in the Canadian and US markets:
- Cross border tax arbitrage using tax credits
- Long-term structured repo and quant index hedging for infrastructure projects.
- Repo and cash arbitrage using options and swap spreads.
- Forward US/Canada government spread trading.
- Tax exempt mortgages for high net worth individuals using a combination of government trading and
retail repo facilities.
- Cross currency arbitrage structures using government securities and foreign exchange.
- These initiatives contributed approximated $20 million dollars for the firm.
- Over 2 years, managed and built retail foreign exchange market segment including marketing to major
branches across Canada and leverage off these "soft" money flows in order to build seamless trading
model resulting in new and expanded profitability for company.
- Promoted from Vice President to Director of Foreign Exchange after only two years in my role as a
result of achieving $10 million per annum in profitability on consistent basis on a VAR of $10 million
per trade.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC Global Capital Markets), Toronto, Canada
Role: Foreign Exchange Institutional Sales and Technology Development/Currency Strategist
- Created the first foreign exchange neural network trading model that disseminated one year's
history of foreign exchange order data in USD/DEM in order to predict, with an associated
probability, what future orders would be executed on a 24 hour basis. This third party neural

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network trading system was able to analyse current order flow and determine directional
movements in currencies on a short term basis. Provided the “tokens and data hooks” for the
neural network. Data Classification and co-occurrence grouping methodologies implemented.
- Marketed to a core client base that was internationally diversified and transacted in all major
product areas in the foreign exchange markets.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
UNIVERSITY STUDIES:
Masters of Business Administration – Honours; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; May, 1995
Bachelor of Arts– Honours (Concentrations in Economics and Political Science); University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada; May, 1991
SELECTED CONTINUING EDUCATION:
 Royal Bank of Canada Global Training Programme, Toronto, 1996
 CSC and RR Designations, Toronto, 2010, 2011 respectively.
OTHER DETAILS
 Citizenship - Canadian; mother tongue - English
 Personal details: extensive world traveller, avid reader and hockey enthusiast.