Josh Sookman
CEO at Guardly. Canadian. Past Analyst at BlackBerry Partners Fund & RBC Venture Partners. Advisor. Curator at [StartupDigest] Toronto. Wakeboarding Nut.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://startuplifeblog.com |
| Industries: | Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Mobile |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, Human-Computer Interaction, Investment, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Product design, Public speaking, Software Engineering, Viral marketing, Web design, Writing |
| Location: | Toronto, ON |
| Groups: | BASES Social E-Challenge Alumni Network, Intel® Challenge France 2010, Intel® Challenge Germany 2010, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [INACTIVE] BASES Social E-Challenge 2010 |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | entrepreneur, game mechanics, Internet, location-based services, mobile, personal safety, social gaming, social media, startup, vc, Venture Capital, viral marketing |
FULL BIO
Josh is currently CEO at Guardly. He is a huge supporter of innovation, entrepreneurship and the startup community. Josh is currently helping to organize TEDxToronto 2010 along with a fantastic team, and he is the co-curator at Toronto [StartupDigest]. He has also volunteered with Impact Entrepreneurship Group and mentored Overseas Education Center, a Stanford student team building a not-for-profit educational facility in Cambodia to help local students get top-tier educations abroad (2009).
Josh has also judged several international competitions, most notably, the Social eChallenge Competition at Stanford University (2009, 2010) and the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) regional round at MIT (2009). Most recently, he helped judge the 2010 Intel Challenge Europe.
Prior to this, Josh had founded and operated four private companies while completing his high school and undergraduate degrees. One venture, CampusTutors Corporation, was an angel-backed company that provided a web-based, tutor-matching service at three university campuses and grew to over 150 employees and contractors.
He loves wakeboarding and playing squash.
Josh's Startups (1)
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Guardly
Guardly is a mobile personal safety service that instantly connects people with family, friends and authorities during an emergency in a single tap.
Josh is Following (2)
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OEC
OCE advances the academic development of Cambodian students by disseminating information about foreign educational opportunities and providing assistance in the university application process.
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Medic Mobile
A cellphone software package for community health workers in developing countries that provides electronic medical records, patient tracking and updates, and a $1 CD4 diagnostic and beyond...
Josh's Contacts (4)
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Heesun Lho
VP of Projects at YouNoodle. Korean, grew up in the US, B.A. in Human Biology and M.A. in Education from Stanford University, former Co-President of BASES and now at YouNoodle running entrepreneurship campaigns!
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Dan Steketee
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .
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Sanjee Singla
Stanford Masters in Management Science and Engineering, specialty in Entrepreneurship. I'm building a jobs website that will change how we search and apply for jobs. Looking for gifted startup web engineers who want to work on a big change.