Kyle Fillier

Kyle Fillier

Founder, The Yard

Founder, The Yard

THE SIT DOWN

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Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is just showing you how to be successful."
Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is just showing you how to be successful."
Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is just showing you how to be successful."

Kyle Fillier

Kyle Fillier

While most supply chain executives talk about moving product, Kyle Fillier thinks about moving people. Raised in Scarborough, always on the go, always ready for the next adventure, he learned early that the best leaders aren't the ones with the cleanest playbook. They're the ones who stay calm when everything is on fire.

Literally. Before he ever touched a warehouse floor, Kyle was a volunteer firefighter, orchestrating the movement of people and resources under maximum pressure. That instinct, to find order inside chaos, became the through-line of a career that took him from the fire hall to the frontlines of one of the most disruptive companies on the planet. When StockX needed someone to launch their first Canadian facility virtually, mid-pandemic, they called Kyle. He built it from scratch without ever stepping foot inside.

Now as Founder and President of The Yard, Kyle is writing his own playbook, bringing blue-chip operational discipline to a new venture and proving that the best logistics minds don't just move inventory. They move the needle.

DEFINING MOMENTS

The Fire Hall

Volunteer Firefighter. The Lesson: "Logistics isn't about boxes. It's about people under pressure. The fire hall taught me that before I ever saw a warehouse."

2020

The Launch

StockX, Canada. The Lesson: "Nobody handed me a manual. I had to build the plane, find the runway, and land it, all at the same time. That's when I learned what I was actually made of."

2023

The Engine

Aritzia. The Lesson: "Perfection in logistics isn't luck. It's a thousand small decisions made correctly, every single day."

2024

The Yard

Founder and President. The Lesson: "Stay in the uncomfortable. Don't jump just because it's hard. The people who push through that feeling are the ones who actually get somewhere."

The Fire Hall

Volunteer Firefighter. The Lesson: "Logistics isn't about boxes. It's about people under pressure. The fire hall taught me that before I ever saw a warehouse."

2020

The Launch

StockX, Canada. The Lesson: "Nobody handed me a manual. I had to build the plane, find the runway, and land it, all at the same time. That's when I learned what I was actually made of."

2023

The Engine

Aritzia. The Lesson: "Perfection in logistics isn't luck. It's a thousand small decisions made correctly, every single day."

2024

The Yard

Founder and President. The Lesson: "Stay in the uncomfortable. Don't jump just because it's hard. The people who push through that feeling are the ones who actually get somewhere."

The Fire Hall

Volunteer Firefighter. The Lesson: "Logistics isn't about boxes. It's about people under pressure. The fire hall taught me that before I ever saw a warehouse."

2020

The Launch

StockX, Canada. The Lesson: "Nobody handed me a manual. I had to build the plane, find the runway, and land it, all at the same time. That's when I learned what I was actually made of."

2023

The Engine

Aritzia. The Lesson: "Perfection in logistics isn't luck. It's a thousand small decisions made correctly, every single day."

2024

The Yard

Founder and President. The Lesson: "Stay in the uncomfortable. Don't jump just because it's hard. The people who push through that feeling are the ones who actually get somewhere."

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