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Fintech leader Q4 chooses Hamilton as ‘vibrant’ launching pad for international expansion
100 staff to be hired for new offices on King Street East in emerging tech hub district
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9...nal-expansion/
A software company that serves as the investor backbone for giant global corporations picked downtown Hamilton as the point for an aggressive expansion.
Toronto's Q4 Inc. announced Jan. 21 it is hiring 100 technology workers for its new 9,500-square-foot Gore Park space at 59 King St. E., next door to the development on the former Kresge's block.
"We see Hamilton being a significant part of our global workforce," Dorothy Arturi, Q4 senior vice-president of people and culture, said of an investor relations operation that serves clients such as Apple, Nike and Shopify from offices in Toronto, the U.S., Britain and Denmark.
Approximately 2,200 large publicly listed companies worldwide use Q4 software and data services to help them engage with shareholders, said founder and CEO Darrell Heaps, a York University computer sciences and business graduate who built two other companies before establishing Q4 in 2006.
Q4 has grown rapidly as a private Canadian financial tech company and now provides investor relations analysis tools to 64 per cent of the companies on the Dow Jones and 37 per cent of those on the S&P.
Two-thirds of its clients are U.S.-based, one-third are spread out internationally, and just under 200 are Canadian.
Those companies typically are worth more than $500 million in market capitalization, said Heaps, who described Hamilton as its "centre of excellence for web-based products" to serve a growing list of international clients.
"In Hamilton, it will be highly visual, engaging work and very rewarding because of the pace by which we launch investor sites with the latest technology," Heaps said.
On Q4's quest to broaden to a new location and add a hundred staff to its payroll of 240, the company narrowed its search to a short list that included cities in the U.S., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
"The driving reason for setting up a second large office in Hamilton was based on the fact that Hamilton is a vibrant location with a great talent pool with proximity to our headquarters in Toronto to move talent between locations," Heaps said.
"It's a city feel without the cost of living in downtown Toronto," said Arturi, noting that "all the boxes were checked" as they reviewed Hamilton as a growth destination.
Judy Lam, Hamilton's manager of commercial districts and small business, recalls the turning point last June when a tour of prospective sites with Q4 officials stopped in on the Core Urban development on King.
"It was an urban vibe that fit their culture," Lam said.
The building is currently under major renovation
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Originally Posted by HamiltonForward
Looking even better with lovely dark black mullions now installed. It's a small and simple detail but so many projects use silver mullions which just look awful comparatively. This afternoon:
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Before the renovation
King&James
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=237589
Suppose to look like this when the renovation is done