Luigi Lo Basso
 | Luigi has over 20 years of experience in senior finance and administration management roles in the telecommunications and manufacturing industries. During his career, he has held senior positions in corporate accounting, corporate financing and restructuring, corporate budgeting, management information reporting, regulatory affairs, and international consulting.
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Luigi’s previous roles include: managing Bell Canada’s $10 billion corporate budget; and Financial and Operations Director for Bell Canada's International Asian companies which included the financial due diligence of a $300 million acquisition of a South Korean cellular company. Luigi was responsible for the restructuring of the accounting and finance departments, leading the South Korean company from the brink of bankruptcy to an IPO that generated $1billion cash gain for Bell Canada International. Luigi was also the Director of Finance and Administration of AXtel in Mexico, where he spearheaded AXtel’s EBITDA growth from negative to over $90 million. More recently, Luigi was Chief Financial Officer of Thomas Equipment, a US publically traded company with revenues of approximately $100 million, and Komunik, a Canadian traded company with revenues of approximately $80 million, both of which he led out of financial difficulties.
Luigi’s international experience includes starting, managing, and restructuring companies in Canada, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Uruguay, Columbia, and Mexico. Luigi obtained an MBA from Concordia University in May 1981 and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Loyola College/University of Montreal in June 1974.
