Sunir Shah is the Chief Marketing Olarker at Olark live chat, the easy way to talk to the customers browsing on your website for sales and support. He also co-founded and leads industry initiatives at The Small Business Web, an organization of 175 companies working to make the Open Web the best place to build, find, and sell small business software online. He has extensive experience in software development and product marketing. He focuses on marketing through engineering. Ask him about partnerships, APIs, business analysis, and marketing to the United States from Canada.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/sunir-shah/

Amber Mac is an entrepreneur, television host, professional speaker, and bestselling author. She co-hosts a TV show on CTV/BNN called AppCentral, which airs nationally in Canada, Australia, and South Korea. Amber is a regular contributor on CTV News Channel and has appeared on various other networks, such as CNN.

She writes weekly for Fast Company, where she discusses social business, digital productivity, and how to work smarter; Amber has also hosted a number of online video shows for Fast Company, which her digital marketing company MGImedia.ca produces.

Aside from working as a broadcast professional, Amber is also the author of social media business book, Power Friending (Globe & Mail national bestseller). She has spoken on stage and keynoted more than 200 events worldwide as an exclusive speaker with The Lavin Agency.

In the online space, Amber has spearheaded and co-hosted two successful podcasts, The Social Hour (watch Amber on TSH here) on the popular San Francisco TWiT.tv network and commandN.tv (an MGImedia.ca production). Both shows have been featured in Wired Magazine and have won a number of podcast awards (and are still in production, reaching approximately 100,000 viewers and listeners a week).

Amber’s company, MGImedia.ca, launched in 2007 and includes clients such as world-renowned speaker Tony Robbins, Rogers, Discovery Channel, Microsoft, Canada Goose, American Dental Association, Genumark, among others. The company specializes in digital marketing, with a keen focus on social media strategy, online video production and distribution, and website design and development.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/amber-mac/

Joseph Fung is co-founder and CEO of TribeHR, where he focuses on the strategic direction of the organization and vision for the software.

Previously, Joseph was Director of Digital Media at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and President/CEO of Lewis Media, a web software company that built re-brandable web solutions for marketing and design professionals. For his successes, Joseph was honoured with the CIBC Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005, and recognized as one of Waterloo Region’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2011.

Joseph is a strong supporter of the technology community with a commitment to corporate citizenship. He has been involved in the early stages of a number of technology start-ups including Lewis Media, OnMyBlock.ca, Simple Machines Forum, and TravelPod.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/joseph-fung/

Brian Church is currently country manager for Canada and head of sales solutions for North America at LinkedIn. A transformative sales and business leader, Brian has spent the last 14 yearsworking with the world’s largest technology firms. As country manager, Brian leads Canadian operations for the world’s largest online professional network and is responsible for increasing awareness, adoption and advocacy of LinkedIn with a focus on driving revenue, strategic partnerships and member growth and engagement.  As the head of Sales Solutions Brian is helping sales organizations at companies throughout North America transform their business through the social selling power of LinkedIn.

Previous to taking on his current role, Brian was responsible for launching the hiring solutions business for LinkedIn Canada, focused on helping Canadian companies identify and attract the best talent to their organizations.

Prior to LinkedIn Brian managed enterprise sales for Google, where he focused on the development, awareness and expansion of the Google Apps for Business platform into the Canadian market.  Through driving the Canadian organization’s expansion from market strategy, resource deployment and customer acquisition he achieved substantial year over year business grow across all lines of business.

Before joining Google, Brian held sales and management positions with SAP and Oracle where he was engaged in successfully bringing about change in organizations from insurance to healthcare.

Brian holds a Bachelor of Administrative Studies from York University with a specialization in marketing.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/brian-church/

Jason’s entrepreneurial spirit and leadership capabilities have driven Vital Insights into the spotlight as one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies. An innovator and visionary, Jason has increased year-over-year company revenues in the past 5 years to a level of over 10,000%. His in-depth knowledge of technology and business acumen allow him to understand his clients’ needs and with great enthusiasm and dedication, he has successfully completed a full re-branding and re-organization of the company to better serve its customer base.The results of this have heralded the company with a three time, consecutive ranking on the coveted Deloitte Fast50, as well as, back-to-back placements in PROFIT magazine’s Top 200 Fastest Growing Companies in Canada and an impressive ranking of 61st, on the Deloitte Fast 500, which ranks the 500 fastest growing companies in North America.  Most recently his company Vital Insights captured public equity attention and in August 2012, Jason sold a minority stake in his company worth over $20M to a European & NYC based Private Equity firm for additional growth capital to continue globalization of the company.

Jason is a Toronto Chapter member of the prestigious Young Presidents Organization (YPO) where he serves on the membership committee and is a member of the Toronto Chapter Board of Directors. He sits on the board of numerous technology based companies and has recently become a panelist on the BNN Syndicated Network show “The Pitch” where the top entrepreneurs pitch for an opportunity to have Jason invest his capital and knowledge into promising businesses.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/jason-tryfon/

Wendy Lea is the CEO of Get Satisfaction. Wendy founded The Chatham Group, where she currently serves as an angel investor, strategic advisor, and board member for a long list of startup companies. She serves on the board of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2.org). Wendy has been recognized as a Top 100 Woman of Influence in Silicon Valley.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/wendy-lea/

Farah Perelmuter is  CEO & CO-FOUNDER of SPEAKERS’ SPOTLIGHT, an agency that represents the most highly-acclaimed and best-selling authors, business visionaries, athletes, political leaders, entertainers, adventurers and inspiring individuals (www.speakers.ca). To date, they have arranged over 12,000 speaking engagements for clients in 30 counties. They also represent leading trainers who deliver practical workshops, in-depth training programs, facilitation, consulting services, and more. Speakers’ Spotlight’s Celebrity Division connects entertainment, sports and media personalities with organizations for sponsorships, endorsements, public relations/media spokesperson campaigns, product launches, personal appearances.

Speakers’ Spotlight was co-founded by Farah and her husband Martin in 1995 – the year they got married, moved, quit their jobs and took an entrepreneurial leap of faith. Although they were a young couple with minimal business experience, no staff and no office, they poured their meagre savings into something they could call their own Farah and Martin pursued their dream with intense drive, not allowing themselves to be swayed by the judgments of others, the setbacks they faced, or challenges that lay ahead. During the road ahead, and a veritable rollercoaster of risk, determination and innovation, their business has become Canada’s leading speakers bureau, and one of the world’s largest and most respected.

Speakers’ Spotlight has been listed in Profit Magazine’s PROFIT 100, and for the last two consecutive years, Farah and Martin Perelmuter were finalists for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Profit Magazine has ranked Farah as one of Canada’s Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs for seven consecutive years. The Women’s Executive named her as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100. In 2009 The Women’s Post named Farah one of Canada’s Top 20 Women of the Year.

Speakers’ Spotlight has been recognized for “giving back” and making a difference to many lives worldwide. For the last 3 consecutive years, The International Association of Speakers Bureaus’ awarded Speakers’ Spotlight with the ‘Community Service Award’ for their incredible contribution to helping children around the world. Most recently they have created their own charitable initiative, The Speakers’ Spotlight Scholarship Fund, in partnership with Pathways to Education.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/farah-perelmuter/

Jonas Brandon is a venture investor and technology entrepreneur. Jonas cofounded Captual (acquired by Desire2Learn), an education technology company based on an open source research project developed at the University of Toronto. He was also an early investor in GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce), a next generation enterprise co-browsing company. An active angel investor, he previously managed venture capital for Rogers Communications and Inflexion Partners. Jonas grew up south of the 49th parallel and is a member of the Florida Bar. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Juris Doctor, cum laude, and Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude. Jonas lives in Toronto and wears his passion for Canadian startups on his sleeve as a cofounder of StartupNorth.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/jonas-brandon/

Jade Raymond is Managing Director and studio head of Ubisoft Toronto, where she is building a multi-title AAA game studio that is expected to go from zero to 800 employees within the next 10 years. As Managing Director, Jade is responsible for studio strategy, executive management and production oversight. Jade also serves as Executive Producer for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell franchise. Prior to joining Ubisoft Toronto, Jade was best known as co-creator and Executive Producer of Assassin’s Creed, which won critical acclaim and multiple Game of the Year awards.  The Assassin’s Creed franchise has sold over 30 million units across all titles worldwide. Jade is also a member of the Women in Film and Television (WIFT-T) Board of Directors.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/jade-raymond/

Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced “keep”), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages “moments of achievement” in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by Hummer Winblad, Relay Ventures, True Ventures and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date.  Kiip has been listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List, and been named to the Dow Jones FasTech50 List.

Called the youngest person to ever receive venture capital funding by TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal, Brian received his Bachelors of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia at age 18, after skipping four K-12 grades. He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: the Top 20 Under 20 awards for all of Canada; Business Insider’s Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes’ 30 under 30; Mashable’s Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.

Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/brian-wong/