This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Tobi not only is an entrepreneur, but he is also a Sales Leader & Coach with experience building high-capacity teams and profitable online businesses. He is passionate about helping unfulfilled and underpaid employees earn more and live happier with the company he co-founded and is CEO 3Skills & also with The Career Transition Academy....
Jun 21, 2023•34 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Today our guest is an Indian immigrant who moved to Nova Scotia with a diploma in public relations in 2011 to be with her partner. Shivani’s Kitchen was established in 2014 when Shivani Dhamija recognized an opportunity to fill a gap in supplying Indian style home cooked food in their area. Fast forward to 2023, her products now can be found in The Real Canadian Supe...
Jun 14, 2023•29 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Thyagi is the CEO and Cofounder of OOt, the human connectivity platform designed to help people build personal and professional connections in real life. Over one-third of the population suffers from loneliness, impacting attrition and productivity, costing employers $154 billion per year. Thyagi has 20 years of experience in sales, specializing in ICT and SaaS strat...
Jun 07, 2023•47 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Ayo is a management consultant who brings over 10 years of experience in coaching, training and strategic direction to enterprise level clients looking to achieve big-picture goals while also focusing on diversity and inclusion. His approach combines expertise, personal stories and humor-all intended to break barriers and facilitate communication. As a result, Ayo's ...
May 31, 2023•51 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Shahed is originally from Iran and moved to Canada in 1997 with his family. He started his first business in 1999 as a college dropout and was acquired in 2000. The company that acquired them then became a victim of the dot-com bubble burst leading him to take a second stab at entrepreneurship in 2011.By end of 2012, he decided to put that aside and commit full-time ...
May 24, 2023•43 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Seun Richards is a Canadian-Nigerian social entrepreneur, researcher, and community volunteer, passionate about providing sustainable solutions to local community problems and teaching social entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully established small businesses in 3 nations across 3 continents, namely Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, and Canada. He is ...
May 17, 2023•50 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. CEO of EZOK, a company that automates the sale of insurance to insurance brokers and also vice-president of internationalization at ACATE - Technological Association of the State of Santa Catarina, which brings together more than 1,600 members. Graduated in computer science from FURB, postgraduate in data science engineering from UNISUL and postgraduate in Global Bus...
May 10, 2023•35 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Originally from Iran, Hamid Noori, did B.Sc. in Electrical Eng. in Iran, did M.Sc. in Europe, and came to Canada. He started his Ph.D. in University of Waterloo, quit, and then went to Vancouver, finalizing his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Hamed currently runs two companies and is on the board of directors of several others. He has filed 9 US patents...
May 03, 2023•35 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Enrique is a forward thinker originally from Mexico, with a strong passion for building a better future through cutting-edge ideas, actionable methodologies and new technologies, unlocking businesses for exponential growth. Co-Founder of Mountx and Director of Sales and Business Development of City Wide, Enrique is a PropTech passionate and focuses not only on scalin...
Apr 26, 2023•49 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Finding an appropriate rental is a tedious process and it’s twice as hard for International students and newcomers in Canada, with no existing rental accommodation system supporting them due to the lack of history in the country. That’s where Anash Parayil comes in with his company, Haletale. Haletale is a co-living platform creating affordable and flexible housing ...
Apr 19, 2023•37 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Vitor is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is currently a Permanent Resident in Canada, living in Vancouver, BC. And the co-founder and CEO of Napice Tech Inc in Canada, a School and Community for Software Engineering Leaders. Vitor is a tech entrepreneur with a strong focus on mobile, desktop, and web development with 17 years of experience. Through Napice, Vitor buil...
Apr 12, 2023•38 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Hamidreza Etebarian is the Co-founder and CEO of Offerland, a vancouver-based technology company. He has become the top 30 under 30 in British Columbia, Canada in 2022. Before starting his journey as an entrepreneur, Hamid was a structural engineer at Glotman Simpson, where he was involved in more than a dozen residential and commercial tower projects in North Americ...
Apr 05, 2023•38 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Emilio is an Argentinian, that despite moving to the US with only $5k in the bank, managed, after some months, to raise a pre seed round to start Aument, a platform that helps small ecomm brands to get new sales easily, through email and sms. Throughout his career he has: • Builted companies, from a marketplace for bands to a corporate gifts company. • Leaded brands,...
Mar 29, 2023•37 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Daniel Brener is originally from Brazil but has also lived in over 7 countries, including Canada :) . Daniel studied Finance and Marketing in the US. and worked in finance until he founded AleFi with a good friend he met in Chicago. AleFi is a FinTech based in Miami with already 13 people on the team. They are building a mobile app to help retail investors make bette...
Mar 22, 2023•42 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Ehsan is the founder and CEO of LaunchPath, a startup studio and business immigration hub that specializes in providing commercialization services for entrepreneurs and startups. His background is a rare combination of product leadership at major tech firms, startup advisory and management consulting. Ehsan has taken numerous products to the market, raised investment...
Mar 15, 2023•36 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Ali Avci is a skilled computer engineer who specializes in the development of enterprise HR technology and healthcare software. With eight years of experience in various high-paced engineering environments, Ali has a proven track record of creating SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 compliant software. Ali is passionate about utilizing best practices to creatively solve cri...
Mar 08, 2023•27 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Carlos is a Peruvian entrepreneur with a background in industrial engineering and business administration. He earned his MBA from The University of North Carolina and has since worked in several Latin American countries as a consultant at Accenture, as well as in leadership positions at Citibank and Marsh McLennan. In 2015, Carlos founded Zagitas in Peru, a company t...
Mar 01, 2023•32 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Matias Maciel is the CoFounder & CFO of Rextie with over 20 years of international experience in Finance & Business Administration. He has dedicated a lot of his professional journey to top multinational companies in different countries. His journey has been mostly focused on improving results, cost efficiency, management of financial resources, process impro...
Feb 22, 2023•39 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Today, our guest is a passionate entrepreneur with a mission of providing tools for mental health support based on language and cultural backgrounds. Since 2014, Fred Neumann has focused his career on sustainability, by founding ‘Movimento Lixo Zero’, an institute that promotes zero waste and diverting waste from landfills in Rio de Janeiro. In Toronto, he was part o...
Feb 15, 2023•38 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. With over 18 years’ experience in information technology, including the last 15 years in professional services and consulting, Naren helps companies access Government funding programs and helps companies in a variety of industries to file maximized and substantiated tax credit claims. His clients represent a number of industries including Telecommunications, Software...
Feb 08, 2023•33 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Our guest today is Gaurav Chauhan. Gaurav is a computer science graduate from 2008 who has a wealth of experience in software development. After working as a software engineer in India for 3 years, he co-founded Jellyfish Technologies in 2011, which has grown into a thriving software development company with over 100 team members serving clients globally. In addition...
Feb 01, 2023•33 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Beatriz Zanatelli has over 14 years of experience investing in and leading companies across diverse industry sectors. She has acquired knowledge in both entrepreneurship and franchise networks throughout her work in different countries. Her experience with team leadership and project management has led Beatriz to pursue a career revolving around her two utmost favori...
Jan 25, 2023•33 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Natalia Pavanelli, our guest of today, is an artist born in Brazil, but not the prime example of a Brazilian you'll ever meet. When she was five years old, her family moved to the South of Germany, on the borders of the Black Forest, transforming her life and her view of the world forever. Natalia grew up in the midst of castles and fairy tales resulting in a very fu...
Jan 18, 2023•40 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Sunandita has worked two decades in luxury hotel management across the globe, 3 continents, 72 different nationalities, from service capacity of 100 to 60.000 people, world class Michelin star restaurant management, hotels acquisitions, mergers and project developments. From operations, to Finance to marketing, to project development and also business management expe...
Jan 11, 2023•54 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Assel is the co-founder and CEO at Paperstack. Her company provides working capital for e-commerce sellers who sell on platforms like Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, and others. Originally she arrived in Canada from Kazakhstan by herself in 2012 with one suitcase and a lot of ambitions. Since then, she worked in finance and banking, where she helped thousands of customers get...
Jan 04, 2023•47 min
On our episode #017 for the Find A Way podcast, we had the pleasure to interview the two @aceit co-founders. Jai Mansukhani is a 3rd-year computational cognition undergraduate student studying at the University of Toronto. He has always shown an interest in technology and its ability to function, showing particular interest in the way systems are built, designed, and developed. Jai is the Co-CEO and COO of Ace It, heading over full operational capacity. Pashan Sidhwa is a honours mechanical engi...
Dec 21, 2022•47 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Anna Lachykhina is a co-founder and president of a public affairs company Good Politics Corp. with headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine and recently launched operations in Canada. Anna has also worked as an advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine and Strategic Communications Director at the International Renaissance Foundation – George Soros’s foundation in Ukraine. S...
Dec 14, 2022•59 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Esther Hephzibah is the Founder of Shine Transformation Solutions (STS), a leadership and personal development consulting firm specializing in transforming lives, careers and businesses through Coaching, Speaking and Training. Esther has over 12 years of multicultural experience having worked across three continents and has built a strong reputation with a diverse ne...
Dec 07, 2022•42 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. And today we are doing something different: interviewing our co-host Ingrid Polini. Ingrid holds a Business Administration Bachelors, and a Masters in intercultural and international communications and has more than 9 years of experience in tech, from large corporations to startups. Ingrid has developed intercultural and international projects throughout the world. S...
Nov 30, 2022•41 min
This is the Find a Way Podcast - Where we talk to immigrant founders about their journey starting a business in Canada and the US. Kiran is the CTO at HUEX Labs. Prior to co-founding HUEX Labs, he worked at Bank of America for over 17 years and the last 5 years of those as Vice President of Architecture leading the Conversational AI group. Kiran has built enterprise software that is in the hands of millions of end users, he has a deep understanding of Customer Experience Design technology and he...
Nov 23, 2022•34 min
