Flagship Podcast

On this episode, we speak with Thor Conklin, Founder @ Peak Performance

Thor Conklin is an entrepreneur, profitability consultant and host of his daily Peak Performers Podcast. 2017 marks his 17th year as an entrepreneur.

On this week’s episode, we spoke with Ralph Van Coillie, Managing Director Ecommerce @ Ubisoft. Ralph converges his passion in digital calculated ventures for complex and large-scale organizations in different national and international industries such as banking, media, telecom and retail.

On this week’s episode, we spoke with Michael Mire, Chief Revenue Officer @ Sweet IQ. Michael is the VP Sales of Montreal-based SweetIQ, a local search marketing platform that converts online search into in-store sales — founded in 2010. He is a born and bred entrepreneur, marketer, public speaker, and mentor. He brings to SweetIQ over ten years of experience spearheading marketing operations of several Canadian start-up companies including Experience Wifi, Microcap Trade and AdMire Marketing.

Hi everyone,

Today is a special episode of the PNR podcast. I was a guest on my friend, Fred Ranger’s podcast, the Brand Experience. We spoke about how the world of business and marketing have evolved in the past few years and how organizations can apply new methods like agile to be ready for this real-time and always connected world.

 

I hope that you enjoy the interview!

 

Let us know what you think. What types of guests would like to see on the show? What topics interest you the most? Send me your thoughts at [email protected]

 

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On today’s show, we spoke with Jeremy Kopek, Founder & CEO @ Noa Sleep

Noa Sleep is a specialty e-commerce company founded in Canada and currently operating in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. 

 

Prior to founding Noa Sleep in 2016, Jeremy served as a board advisory member for a private equity firm based in Beijing, China. In 2015-2016, he acted as a strategic consultant for four Chinese retailers/manufacturers, leading their restructuring efforts to build multichannel strategies known as online-to-offline (O2O) services, assisting the launch of retail and online stores across Tmall.com and JD.com, and more.

 

From 2006 to 2016, Jeremy served as Head of Strategy, Marketing and Product for Structube, one of Canada's leading home furnishing retailers. During this time in which he became fluent in Mandarin, Jeremy led the digital transformation of the organization, built a unified omnichannel retail expansion strategy and managed branding, marketing and advertising teams. He also was responsible for developing relationships with more than 100 manufacturers across China, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam and the United States while managing an office based in Dongguan, China.

 

I always enjoy speaking with Jeremy as he is the smartest person I know when it comes to China. On the show, we spoke about:

• How he started Noa Sleep.
• Why he decided to start in China first and the massive opportunity in that market
• The scale of ecommerce in the Asian market
• How cost per acquisition was a decision factor
• Advice for entrepreneurs looking to enter China
• The three key retail trends he’s keeping his eye on

 

I really enjoyed my conversation with Jeremy and I learned a ton about developing the Asian market. Enjoy the conversation!

 

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On today’s show, I had a great conversation with Sergei Savchenko and Martin Gourdeau, my business partner at PNR. We had an amazing conversation on the state of AI today.

I had a great conversation with Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, CEO @ Hexoskin. Pierre-Alexandre is an entrepreneur, designer, and co-founder of Hexoskin, the leading smart clothing company for sports, fitness, health and sleep tracking.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Antony Diaz, Founder @ Uvolt.

Antony is an entrepreneur who is passionate about clean energy, artificial intelligence and uses technology to empower change. He’s open to learn from your experience, share mine and take new opportunities that will improve people’s lives.

He founded Uvolt at 17 that seeks to make clean energy more practical and more accessible through consumer products. Their first product, the Uvolt Watch, will let consumers harvest solar power and wireless energy to charge a compact power bank, which is easily removable and can be plugged directly into a phone

 

This episode was a bit different for me. Instead of talking about success, we spoke about failure. Antony’s Uvolt project has been put on hold recently. We had an insightful conversation about:

• What he learned from the mistakes of the project
• The many positives gained from the experience
• The interesting technology used in Uvolt
• A new project he founded focused on education in Columbia
• Why he’s excited about clean tech, education and health care

 

Despite the recent drawbacks, Antony is set for a stellar career. He was quite open in sharing his experiences. I learned a ton and I hope that you do as well.

 

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On this week’s show, we spoke with Renjie Butalid, Associate Director @ McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Renjie Butalid is an award-winning entrepreneur whose work lies at the intersection of technology startups, social innovation, and cross-sector civic engagement. In his current role, he oversees the Centre’s entrepreneurship and mentorship programs including the McGill Lean Startup Program, the McGill Dobson Cup and the McGill X-1 Accelerator.

On this week’s show, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, CEO @ WatchMojo. Ash is one of the most successful entrepreneurs I know, yet he doesn’t flaunt it. Ash is the Ernst & Young 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year winner in the Media & Entertainment Category for the Quebec region.

WatchMojo is a Top 10 YouTube channel globally when measured by views (over 250M), and a top 5 channel when measured by minutes of content watched (over 1.6B minutes in fact).