Dominick Mitchell is a Canadian business analyst and social entrepreneur known for analyzing and executing operations, strategy, and fundraising projects in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. He is the CEO of JC ALGO, a boutique firm that designs capital raising strategies for projects in emerging markets. Over six years, he has led JC ALGO and its subsidiary fund to their current states, raising over $175,000 CAD and $25,000 CAD annually. Mitchell has pitched projects to the UN and opened the Toronto Stock Exchange twice.
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CEO of JC ALGO and Corporate Analyst, Dominick Mitchell. For other people of the same name, see Dominick Mitchell (link).
1. This article is about the CEO of JC ALGO and Corporate Analyst, Dominick Mitchell. For other
people of the same name, see Dominick Mitchell (link).
Dominick Mitchell is a Canadian Business Analyst and Social Entrepreneur. He is best known
for analyzing and executing several operation, strategy and fundraising projects both in the for-
profit and not-for-profit sector. Over the last six years Mr. Mitchell has led JC ALGO, a boutique
firm that designs and implements capital raising strategies for projects in emerging markets and
it’s subsidiary JC ALGO Fund, a successful foreign investment fund to its current state of
$175,000 CAD and $25,000 CAD annually respectively. He has in-person pitched a project to
the United Nations, was President of the Mississauga Arts Youth Council and has opened the
Toronto Stock Exchange “ringing the bell” twice. As a community leader, Dominick continues
to advise students for Junior Achievement Company Program an 8 month entrepreneurial
initiative.
Biography
- Personal Life [Birth date, City, Education, Growing Up]
o Born February 7th
, 1998, Dominick Mitchell was born in Mississauga Ontario
Canada the sixth-most popular municipality in Canada with a population of
721,599 as of the 2016 census. Most of his life, Dominick resided in Mississauga
where he also attended the SHSM Business Specialist program at John Cabot
Catholic Secondary School. While here, Dominick expanded on his
entrepreneurial spirt by studying under his professors Lucio Marcantonio and
Nelson Damaso where he later went on to credit them for teaching him personal
finance, negotiation and leadership skills, respect, and the true meaning of
pursuing happiness first resulting in success. Since then Dominick has gone on to
complete post secondary in Business Management (link) at Humber College and
is now attending Harvard for Business Analysis (link).
- Professional Life
o As a Certified Business Analyst Professional (link) Dominick focus on &
designing business models that disrupt existing markets and value networks.
Moreover, he helps forward-thinking executives raise capital for projects that
significantly impact people, society & or the environment in emerging markets
[JC ALGO].
- Purpose for Life
o Dominick is cited for saying “A year from now I see myself improving my
cultural awareness by becoming bilingual (English & French) thereby being the
bridge between culturally diverse organizations to achieve goals & make an
impact. Five years from now I see myself working as an Analyst for an
Intergovernmental Organization where I can analyze international development
projects. Ten years from now my fund [JC ALGO Fund] will be listed as one of
Canada’s fastest-growing funds [2030].”
2. Career
- Projects
o Project Newland: Deescalating Riot’s in Mexico 2018 – 2019
Newland is a self-funded algorithmic model (prototype) that uses Artificial
Intelligence to predict the possibilities of riots in a country. Phase five included
feature enhancements such as a recommendation engine that will suggest a
deescalation strategy based on the country’s real-time resources that can be
utilized (Military, Streets, Traffic Lights, etc).
o World Vision Quebec Operating Strategy 2019
While working with the Strategy team as an Analyst, Dominick was tasked with
analyzing World Vision’s Quebec Operations to establish a new strategy for the
following fiscal year. This required him to gather data from various sources
[Cross Department, Sentiment Data, Financial Reports], analyze them for impact
potential and identifying goals and objectives based on the direction of the
national operation strategy. He then pitched his findings to the Vice President of
Corporate Strategy and Efficiency Innovation resulting in the team using it as a
base to build the Quebec Operating Strategy on.
o IBM Watson Campaign Integration 2018 – 2019
The IBM Watson Campaign integration project was initiated as a solution to
engage and understand World Vision donors at scale. Under the direction of the
PMO department, Dominick worked on exporting email analytics and donor data
from Salesforce. After importing the exported data into IBM Watson they moved
onto decommissioning Salesforce and it’s nexus to internal and external facing
users to complete the epic. His role resulted in an improvement in our donor
engagement score as we were able to deploy smarter campaigns based on the
analytics we exported that we were not currently acting on.
o Origin Capital Impact Investing Market Research Report 2017
As the Research Analysts, Dominick prepared a case study justifying why Origin
Capital should operate as a Skunkworks instead of sitting under the World Vision
ecosystem. The case study highlighted a number of organizations that benefited
by operating as Skunkworks for a number of reasons such as preventing
bureaucracy and tunnelling innovation. In addition to providing the case study, he
prepared a recommendation report that defined what winning looks like by
identifying how and where Origin Capital should “Play” resulting in the idea
being adopted.
o Samsung Canada Gear2 Watches 2015 – 2016
As the Project Analyst, Dominick conducted market research to prepare and
present a case study for Samsung Canada executives. The case study provided
research and recommendations that would attract more millennial's to purchase
Samsung Watches. The team analyzed the retail store data and crafted three
methods Samsung Canada could use to redesign their store layout for the Eaton
Center, Sherway Gardens and Vaughan Mills Malls.
3. Awards and Recognition
o Newcomer Center of Peel: Annual General Meeting 2015
In 2015 Dominick delivered the Keynote Speech for Newcomer Center of Peel’s
Annual General Meeting to the board and members of The Ministry of Economic
Development and Growth to promote youth entrepreneurship across The Greater
Toronto Area. He was then awarded Youth Entrepreneur of the Year.
o Toronto Stock Exchange: Hackathon 2018
In 2018 Dominick participated in the Toronto Stock Exchange’s annual hackathon
with Junior Achievement. As the Project Analyst, he worked with the project
team to ideate and develop an action plan for TMX to generate listing revenue for
the Toronto Venture Exchange by using machine-learning algorithms to predict
the success of startups in their very early stages prior to listing. This tool would be
beneficial for startups and investors. As a reward, him and his team participated
twice in opening the Toronto Stock Market “Ring the Bell”
o United Nations 2019
Dominick was Delegated for the 2019 United Nations Youth Assembly and had
the opportunity to pitch an innovative approach to deescalating riots using date.
Personal Website: http://www.dominickmitchell.ca
Business Website: https://www.jcalgo.ca
Business Website: https://www.jcalgo.fund
Other: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dmitchell
Articles: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/junior-achievement-of-central-ontario-opens-the-
market-602459855.html