Leadership
Michael Young
Chief Operating Officer, OmniConflux
Michael Young is a Vancouver finance and operations executive who has served as an officer of Canadian public companies since the 2000s, and now runs day-to-day operations at OmniConflux as Chief Operating Officer.
The career, one strand at a time
- 1994-2023
Independent practice
Insurance and financial advisor
Advised individuals and businesses on insurance and financial products, licensed for life and accident and sickness insurance in British Columbia from 2008.
- 2000-2006
Stream Communications Network & Media
Corporate development and investor relations
Worked on corporate development and investor relations for a cable, internet and telephone operator in Poland, which reported 64,389 revenue-generating units at the end of 2006 and sold a majority interest to private equity group Penta Investments in 2008.
- 2006-2010
Carbon Friendly Solutions
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Led a TSX Venture-listed developer of verified emission-offset projects, later renamed MicroCoal Technologies, as Chief Executive Officer and a director until October 2010.
- 2011-2015
DraftTeam Fantasy Sports
President and Chief Financial Officer
President and Chief Financial Officer, later also interim Chief Executive Officer and a director, of a CSE-listed daily fantasy sports company. In March 2015 it merged with TSX Venture-listed Sabre Graphite to form DraftTeam Daily Fantasy Sports Corp., and he was named President of the combined company.
- 2017-2023
Westridge Resources and Harrys Manufacturing
President and CEO, then Chief Financial Officer and Director
Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Westridge Resources in January 2017 and led its 2018 acquisition of Harrys International Manufacturing, after which the company became Harrys Manufacturing (CSE: HARY). He served as its Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and a director until January 2023.
CFO and director of a CSE-listed company, 2018 to 2023
- 2024-2025
FarmX Produce
Corporate business development
Helped plan and carry out growth strategy for an indoor-farming company supplying local communities with fresh produce.
- 2026
OmniConflux
Chief Operating Officer
Runs day-to-day operations for OmniConflux, an AI software company designed to coordinate agents across a team's own machines and to have a different vendor check every task.
About Michael
Michael Young is a Vancouver finance and operations executive who has served as an officer of Canadian public companies since the 2000s, and now runs day-to-day operations at OmniConflux as Chief Operating Officer.
He was Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and a director of CSE-listed Harrys Manufacturing from 2018 to 2023, after leading its predecessor, Westridge Resources, as President and Chief Executive Officer through the 2018 acquisition of Harrys International Manufacturing. Earlier he was President and Chief Financial Officer of DraftTeam Fantasy Sports, a daily fantasy sports company that merged with TSX Venture-listed Sabre Graphite in 2015, where he became President of the combined company. Before that he was Chief Executive Officer and a director of Carbon Friendly Solutions, a developer of verified emission-offset projects, and worked in corporate development and investor relations at Stream Communications Network & Media, a cable, internet and telephone operator in Poland.
At OmniConflux he runs the operating side of the company: vendors, contracts, finance and the reporting a young company has to get right early, so the product team can build an AI platform designed to coordinate agents across a team's own machines and to have a different vendor check every task.
- Operations
- Corporate finance
- Public-company reporting
- Corporate development
Public companies he has served as an officer
- Harrys Manufacturing
- Westridge Resources
- DraftTeam Daily Fantasy Sports
- DraftTeam Fantasy Sports
- Carbon Friendly Solutions