David Feldt

Current

• Founder & CEO at JazLabs, Inc

Past

• Senior Vice President, Managing Director at Organic Inc
• VP, Managing Director at Blast Radius Inc
• SVP, Global Practice Leader at Wunderman

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Education

• Omnicom University
• University of the Witwatersrand
• University of the Witwatersrand

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Twitter

David Feldt’s Summary

A degree in math and computer science and a love of analytics got me into derivatives trading where I discovered my addiction to constant change and innovation, my love of technology, my passion for understanding people and how their beliefs, values, perceptions, fears and greed transform markets. It’s where I nurtured a sense of urgency and an impatience to achieve results. In other words, It was an excellent training ground for working in the digital space.

In 1994, I witnessed the Internet over a 300 baud dial-up connection; I was instantly smitten and thought, "this will change the world." So I founded my own Internet solutions business with BMW as my first client. After 3 years, I sold my business and moved to North America, and to Modem Media where I established and grew their account services practice. Then I migrated to Wunderman. As VP, Interactive, I built Wunderman Canada‘s digital practice and subsequently sold the services across the Wunderman network in North America and Europe, working on brands like Ford, AT&T and Citibank. I then became SVP in New York, leading a global team responsible for IBM’s interactive marketing across major markets in North America, Europe and Asia.

I missed working exclusively on digital, so I joined Blast Radius' Toronto office as Managing Director. While there I opened and grew their Chicago office, focusing on driving business in Eastern Canada and the Central US. In 2005, I became the head of Organic’s Toronto office. In the next 4 years we grew fourfold in size and service three of Organic’s largest global clients—Chrysler, Nike and Bank of America. I also became the publisher of Organic’s industry-insider blog, http://threeminds.com

I think of myself as a collaborator, cross-pollinator, experimenter, connector, doer, entrepreneur, builder. That’s what living digitally does to you, makes you think not just outside of the box but across boxes and borders, calling up the sum of your knowledge and experience.

David Feldt’s Specialties:

Startups; Holistic Thinking; Digital Strategy; Business Development; Design Thinking; Listening; Technology; Marketing; Building, nurturing and mentoring successful teams; Taking passion, focusing it and applying it to a meaningful enterprise; Aligning meaning, thought and action

Additional Information

David Feldt’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Twitter

David Feldt’s Interests:

Personal development / personal growth, travel, photography, continual education, golf, martial arts, design, innovation, exceptional experiences, mysticism, basketball, architecture, stock market, entrepreneurship, philantrophy. On the MBTI, I'm an ENFP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENFP

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