David Feldt

David Feldt

Founder and CEO of JazLabs, Inc. Innovating Within The Social Business Web. Proud Father. Entrepreneur. Builder.

Location
Toronto, Canada Area
Industry
Internet

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David Feldt's Overview

Current
  • Founder, Chairman & CEO at JazLabs, Inc
  • Co-Founder & CEO at JazLife.com
Past
  • Senior Vice President, Managing Director & General Manager at Organic Inc
  • Organizer at Twestival Toronto
  • VP, Managing Director at Blast Radius Inc
  • SVP, Global Practice Leader at Wunderman
  • Vice President, Director of e-Business Solutions at Wunderman Canada
  • Director of Account Management at Modem Media
  • Founder & CEO at Millennium Technologies
Education
  • Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
  • University of the Witwatersrand
  • University of the Witwatersrand
  • St Stithians
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David Feldt's Summary

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.

Specialties

Startups; Holistic Thinking; Digital Strategy; Social Media; 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

David Feldt's Experience

Founder, Chairman & CEO

JazLabs, Inc

September 2009Present (2 years 6 months)

Co-Founder & CEO

JazLife.com

January 2010Present (2 years 2 months)

Senior Vice President, Managing Director & General Manager

Organic Inc

September 2005August 2009 (4 years)

Organizer

Twestival Toronto

January 2009April 2009 (4 months)

VP, Managing Director

Blast Radius Inc

February 2004August 2005 (1 year 7 months)

SVP, Global Practice Leader

Wunderman

20012003 (2 years)

Vice President, Director of e-Business Solutions

Wunderman Canada

19992001 (2 years)

Director of Account Management

Modem Media

19971999 (2 years)

Founder & CEO

Millennium Technologies

January 1994December 1996 (3 years)

David Feldt's Languages

  • English

    (Native or bilingual proficiency)
  • Afrikaans

    (Native or bilingual proficiency)
  • French

    (Limited working proficiency)
  • Zulu

    (Elementary proficiency)

David Feldt's Education

Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business

20082009

University of the Witwatersrand

19891990

University of the Witwatersrand

19801984

St Stithians

David Feldt's Additional Information

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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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