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GRN: The Better Payments Process Company

GRN enables enterprises and institutions to reduce their Variable Expense operating costs with resulting efficiencies helping to optimize overall organization return on investment vital in public corporations or institutions and to dramatically improve oversight and governance.

Our pre-ledger screens transform Variable Expense and Payment management processes by enabling front line accountability so our customers drive out exceptional operating costs and benefit from increased financial controls, increased cash management capability, SOX compliance, and, improved productivity. Process convenience and quick adoption ensure users have more time for providing improved customer service. Reduced administrative staff resources can be re-deployed or efficiencies realized.

GRN software as a service solutions operate on and leverage technologies currently available in most organizations today email communications, accounting, inventory controls, contract records etc. We suggest available e-payment tools such as p-cards and stored value cards where read-only electronic transaction files can be integrated into e-forms to improve reporting or payment initiation, accelerate one-time approvals, and take advantage of no re-key data linkages into accounting, banking, audit and other management functions.

Success Story

For 5 years, GRN successfully provided a local operations payment expense application to a multi-billion dollar corporation resulting in significantly increased financial controls, improved Treasury performance, improved SOX compliance, reduced risk, overall improved financial oversight, and the opportunity to realize very real productivity gains.

Management

Founder and Director: Rayan Zachariassen
Rayan has successfully started or co-founded several companies including Border Network Technologies and Uunet Canada. An MSc in Computer Science from University of Toronto, Rayan is committed to using intelligent technologies to enable individuals to accomplish their objectives more productively. Rayan is personally interested in how intelligent technologies can be used to leverage the value of funds that migrant workers send home for the well-being and future development of those communities.

President: James D. Coutts
A Global MBA (Toronto), Jim has a successful track record in large entities (Ontario Government, Merrill Lynch, Bank of Montreal, Lawson Mardon Group, a large advertising agency), and as Consultant to large retail chains and smaller firms. In addition to this experience in positioning firms, analyzing business processes and re-directing customer behaviour, other successful activities with sports organizations, as Deputy Campaign Chair of Torontos United Way, and at Princess Margaret Hospital The Cancer Hospital in Toronto suggest that he knows how to bring his professional skills into any arena with sensitivity to differences in culture.

System Architect: Ken Lalonde
Ken has extensive experience in developing and managing complex software systems, at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, and Uunet Canada.

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