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 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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ITSportsNet
ITSportsNet provides a suite of software services for membership management. They focus on amateur and recreation sport industry and provide registration, schedule, standing and communication tools.
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CrediFast
A service to provide a worldwide and secure internet shopping experience. No need of credit card or know-how about internet shopping processes. Total security against hacking or fraud.
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BuzTweet
BuzTweet is where your create social media campaigns for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Buzz.
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Michael Pearson
Entrepreneurshops ® mission based on trust, is to place the right client in the right franchise by providing a consulting experience that is so value packed and memorable that the customer is compelled to do it again.
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Rade Glomazic
Currently a Doctoral candidate in Political science at the European Center for Peace and Development of the UN University of Peace. Have over ten years of professional experience working in socio-economic development activities and int. cooperation
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Valeria Pasmanter
I am crazy about exchange and help foreigners in my city: Buenos Aires.
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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) .