Mr. Carrigan has more than 18 years of diversity in the financial, marketing, promotion and creative sectors. He has owned and developed a financial services consulting firm growing from 2 to 50 employees over five years and 35 million in sales. He has also created world class sponsorship and marketing strategies with Palmer Jarvis, Pepsi Canada, Molson’s, Air Canada, Lulu Lemon and Alliance Atlantis Cinema to name a few.
As president and founder of Kidcenters.com (a web based social networking company), Mr Carrigan created a national web based marketing infrastructure for CST Consultants ($2.5 billion in assets) to develop a visionary branding, marketing and I.T. name capture strategy. As VP of sales and marketing with the Forum Centre Lifestyle Club, he created and designed an innovative business model for funding international franchising and club memberships.
Mr. Carrigan also lived in India where he studied Vedic wellness and the metaphysical sciences. Upon returning to Canada he conducted hundreds of seminars and lectures on Mind, Body and Spiritual topics. Within his deep concern for the environment, he designed a multimillion dollar environmental fundraising/awareness strategy to help the aboriginal first nations peoples protect the pristine Stein Valley in British Columbia Canada from logging. The “Voices of the Wilderness” arts and music festival drew over 60,000 participants.
As a 90’s Canadian recording artist, Mr. Carrigan recorded and performed in concert with many of Canada’s elite Juno and Grammy award winners. His original music, videos and interviews aired on national radio networks as well as CBC, CTV, Much Music, City TV. In 2004, he had also penned and produced a world-class theatre production into Vancouver’s 3000 seat QE Theatre called “Dancing in the Light” to extended ovations.