About Dwight Lester!

Sherwood Park, Alberta, business executive Dwight Lester served the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor for nearly two decades in a wide selection of fields, including media and gaming. Dwight Lester primarily focuses on the financial areas of business, including securities filings, financial analysis and forecasting, cost controls, and development of financial governance structures. Other areas of management that Dwight Lester focuses on include strategic and tactical planning, oversight of publically traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange, mergers and acquisitions, and due diligence procedures. Dwight Lester holds various certifications in management and accounting on top of a Bachelor of Applied Business Administration from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton.

Beginning his career in accounting, Dwight Lester spent five years as a Financial Accountant, serving the firm Precise Accounting & Management Services Ltd. Following this, Dwight Lester joined the media network Global Television Network in Edmonton in 1999, where he started as a Senior Financial Analyst for three non-broadcasting affiliates. Dwight Lester provided exceptional financial analysis and oversight of the subsidiaries' budgets while serving as Senior Financial Analyst and helped diversify these assets with due diligence. Promoted to Business Unit Manager in 2001, Dwight Lester oversaw the financial development of TV stations in Edmonton and Red Deer. The more involved aspects of Dwight Lester’s service at Global Television Network included optimizing cash flow in volatile situations, either during expansion periods, such as parent company Canwest Global Communications Corporation’ acquisition period, or recessionary times, such as folding a C$10 million company.

Dwight Lester also served as Director of Finance at two Alberta firms. At both of these companies, Dwight Lester created strong financial strategies and maintained exceptional profits for the firms. These elements of Dwight Lester’s talents were displayed while overseeing the financial strategy of gaming company Gateway Casinos during an extended labour dispute and by staffing retail chain easyhome Ltd.’s financial department with resourceful and experienced employees.