David Feldt

I've been working at the forefront of the Internet for the past 17 years helping clients embrace the transformational power of the Internet to drive their businesses forward.

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, after my MBA, I founded my first interactive agency, with BMW as my first client. In 1996 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.

In 2005, I became the head of Organic's Toronto office. Over the next 4 years, we grew fourfold in size and serviced 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 left Organic at the end of August, 2009 and founded JazLabs, Inc.

In Sept, 2010, we launched JazLife.com - our first social business platform to emerge from JazLabs, Inc.

I think of myself as a collaborator, cross-pollinator, experimenter, connector, doer, entrepreneur and 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.

1. Executive Management
2. Digital Marketing
3. Direct Marketing
4. Social Media
5. Building Business
6. Technology
7. Financial Markets
8. Team Leadership
9. Entrepreneur
10. Collaboration
11. Connecting People
12. Innovator
13. Social Commerce
14. Social Business
15. Social Innovation
16. Digital Strategy
17. social business planning

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Afrikaans

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• French

  (Limited working proficiency)

• Zulu

  (Elementary proficiency)

Websites:

• JazLabs
• JazLife
• My personal blog

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