The Team
Tim Ryan
Tim is at his best when building and scaling consumer businesses with bright, diverse, and driven teammates.
He cut his initial teeth in the corporate world focusing on marketing and strategy - first at Cority and then at Bell Mobility - but later bootstrapped, grew, and sold the recruitment platform Vestiigo.com.
Inspired by the world of startups, he went on to work with a number of Silicon Valley firms - including Nextdoor and Tilt - with a focus on international growth and expansion.
Tim is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School for Global Affairs, where he earned his undergraduate degree in International Relations and History. He received his Master’s degree in Business from Grenoble École de Management in France.
Noah Godfrey
Noah does his best thinking in the shower, often pondering new ventures that he hopes will make a dent in the universe. Along with Pema (one of his Checkout 51 co-founders), Noah launched Dose in 2004, a national daily newspaper in Canada, and GigPark in 2007, a web startup to find local businesses through recommendations from friends (acquired 2009). Noah was also a partner in a LASIK surgery startup that leverages referrals from Walmart Vision Centers and started the SixPoints Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund.
With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, Noah worked in corporate strategy at Time Warner and business development at MTV Networks. He started his career as a media investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) in New York and grew up as a child actor in Toronto.
Noah is a married father of three and a lover of food and baseball.
Pema Hegan
Pema loves to start and grow businesses. He launched an advertising agency in 1997, a national Canadian newspaper in 2004 (Dose), a successful web startup in 2007 (GigPark, acquired 2009) and founded the Toronto office of Rethink advertising in 2010.
For most of Pema's career he has worked with some of the largest packaged goods brands in the world including Unilever, Kraft, Molson, Revlon and many more. It was this experience, combined with ambition to create products that reach millions of people, that helped inspire the idea for Checkout 51.
Pema has lived in New Zealand, the UK and Canada. When he's not in the office you can usually find him riding a bike, sipping an espresso or in a hammock in Muskoka.
Andrew McGrath
Andrew enjoys nothing more than building products that people love to use. Prior to Checkout 51 Andrew founded a successful web startup (Verelo, acquired 2012).
Computers have always been part of Andrew's life. During College and University Andrew paid his bills by building and selling computers from his parents house. After starting his career in Australia, where he founded a company that wrote Online Learning software used by mining companies, Andrew moved to Canada where he has worked for a diverse range of technical industries including Web Hosting, Social Media, and Server monitoring.
Andrew enjoys scaling large technical systems, Ping-Pong, and listening to Triple J.
Product
We’re the team that makes sure what you see on the app works, and looks, great. We’re responsible for owning projects from ideation to release, and working with other Product Managers to prioritize features, fixes and enhancements.
Bryan
Belinda
Karolina
Omair
Lauren
Phil
Robert
Chantelle
Elvis
Development
Our team works on all the technology driving our mobile apps and backend systems. We work closely with product managers and designers to enhance and build new features on our entire platform. We also write SQL queries that dig through huge data sets to arm our Insights team with the information they need.
Mike
Tom
Ali
Brendon
Brian
Derek
Paige
Paolo
Vitaliy
William
Marketing
Content, social media, and communications lives here. Working with Creative and data, our team develops strategic and engaging content for in-app, email, and social platforms.


Alex


Anita
Mariane
Gabriela
Creative
We’re a team of visual communicators, responsible for Checkout 51’s style. We aim to inspire and inform consumers about what we do, and how the app works for them.
Jesse
Emma
Humberto
Sales
In partnership with clients, we’re the front line of the offer list each week. We also work with marketing to develop special programs, and provide insight for member communication.
Lauren
Molly
Rachel
Alyssa
Omri
Danielle
Melissa
Rachel
Claire
Andrew
Client Delivery
We are the team that brings offers to life! We work diligently with our clients and account teams to design the best possible campaign. We spare no effort to exceed brand objectives, track and optimize live offers and deliver superior value added insights for our clients.
Zane
Nicholas
Wayne
Josh
Heather
Catie
Robyn
Chelsey
Patrique
Alexis
Sebastian
Matthew
Farrin
Louie
Support & Operations
We keep everything organized and running smoothly... like making sure our content goes live every week, receipts (millions of them) get processed, projects get managed, members feel supported, our accounting’s in order, and that our work culture stays fun. Whew!
Emily
Julian
Jen
Ken
Melisa
Corey
Aamar
Haris
Nayyar
Jana
Max
Claude
Jennifer
Nina
Haley