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Oscar Jofre

Oscar A. Jofre Jr. is responsible for establishing the overall strategic direction for BoardSuite and has senior oversight of its operations, product and business development.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.boardsuite.co
Industries: Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Financial, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile, Nanotech
Skills: Architecture, Business, Chinese, Contracts, Corporate, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Human-Computer Interaction, Incorporating, Investment, Languages, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Sales, Spanish, Viral marketing
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments
Tags: board portal, compliance, freemium, governance, on-demand minute book, risk, sass

FEATURED STARTUP

BoardSuite

BoardSuite BoardSuite

BoardSuite Corporation provides an essential utility that organizes and manages a customer’s critical corporate information and provides it to selected stakeholders – securely, quickly, effectively and inexpensively

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

FULL BIO

Oscar A. Jofre Jr. is responsible for establishing the overall strategic direction for BoardSuite and has senior oversight of its operations, product and business development.

As the senior corporate leader and spokesperson for BoardSuite, Oscar applies more than two decades of experience in successful start up enterprises to lead the company’s ongoing development and growth with senior customer contacts, partners and key stakeholder relationships. Oscar also serves BoardSuite as an executive member of the Board of Directors.

A Chilean-born entrepreneur, innovator and IT specialist, Oscar brings a background of 20 years in senior management, marketing, investor relations and sales and a proven pattern of results-focused leadership. As founder and CEO of Ottawa-based BabelFish Corporation, a SaaS-based multilingual translation portal, he built and led a team of over 135 individuals in providing high-tech multilingual solutions to 7,600 contractors around the world.

Oscar co-founded the Canadian Network of Language Industries and sat on the steering committee of the Language Industry Technology Roadmap – an initiative of Industry Canada and the National Research Council. He was the only Canadian on the United Nations/MIT Digital Nations. Oscar currently sits on the boards of BoardSuite Corp., OSOLOS Ventures Inc., CorpTropolis Corp. and HispanoTech.

A true visionary, with a talent for identifying technology opportunities, BoardSuite is Oscar’s fifth start-up in what he calls his mission to humanize technology.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: BoardSuite Corp.
Position: Founder, President/CEO
Time period: October 2004 - Present

Employer: Meta4hand Inc.
Position: President/CEO
Time period: November 2003 - April 2005

Employer: BabelFish Corp.
Position: Founder, President/CEO
Time period: January 1999 - September 2003

INFORMATION

Awards: 10 most influential Hispanic Canadians

Oscar's Startups (1)

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  • BoardSuite

    BoardSuite Corporation provides an essential utility that organizes and manages a customer’s critical corporate information and provides it to selected stakeholders – securely, quickly, effectively and inexpensively

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    The first online platform to help you buy or sell private company shares.

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    Open source form and database creation tool for Joomla CMS

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  • Entrepreneurshop, Inc

    Entrepreneurshop, Inc is a franchise and business opportunity consulting firm. We don't represent anybody, but we represent everybody. We have opportunities that range from $200 - 1M+ and everything in between. We also help you grow your concepts.

Oscar's Contacts (10)

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  • Rodrigo Pavez

    Very interested on enterpreur, business and technologies, specially the Web.

  • Sceldra Singer

    Heavily influenced by soul music, R&B,jazz and 80's pop, such passion for music and singing.

  • Thondar Nambi.T

    Medhley.com is a leading Free Website Template provider in India, Online Site Maintanence,Flash Designing,Web Designing www.medhley.com