Jean Fahmy

Current

• Director, Digital Strategies at Transcontinental
• Lecturer, Adjunct professor at L'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
• Local and International member at Entrepreneurs' Organization

• Participant at My Community

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Past

• Founder and President at vyaNova inc.
• Founder and CEO at brainpen
• Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at The NessKey Group

• VP Sales and Services at Openface Internet
• Founder and President at Eurekium Innovations
• Founder and President at ensigna.com

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Education

• Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal
• College Jean de Brébeuf
• West Island College

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My main site
• Blog
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Jean Fahmy’s Summary

Please go to www.jeanfahmy.com for a more complete portrait

In my 11 years of experience, I have built, managed and sold 2 successful IT businesses. The first in IT outsourcing services with 12 full time employees and over 50 part time students in 3 years. The second in mobile middleware software with 43 employees & 4 international sales offices, also in 3.5 years. I also restructured a 10-year-old ISP where I doubled ebitda and revenues in 2 years. In April 2004, I co-founded a venture capital fund for breakthrough humanitarian technologies which still operates successfully today. After it became sustainable, I started in 2006 a Web 2.0 experience-sharing marketplace website, which was sold.

Today, I am the director of digital strategies for Media Transcontinental, the biggest consumer magazine publisher in Canada and am responsible for leveraging all the offline and digital assets to maximize the business benefits they provide to the organization, through organic growth and acquisitions.

I've recreated and now lecture the acclaimed Technology Entrepreneurship course at the bachelors and master's level at L’École Polytechnique de Montréal and, punctually, at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

I've received over a dozen entrepreneurship, technology or leadership awards and I am a regular speaker at tech and entrepreneurship conventions. I was a selected participant in the Governor General Leadership Convention 2004 with Mr Paul Desmarais Jr. as Chair and am a vice-chair for the 2008 Quebec tour.

I am a strategic, experienced and results-oriented leader, a relationship-builder, always exceeding goals and objectives, able to make the tough decisions, solve problems and drive consensus.

Jean Fahmy’s Specialties:

entrepreneurship / intrapreneurship, internet/web strategy and strategic planning, partnerships, Web 2.0, new media, commercialization, leadership and management, technology, breakthrough technology, teaching, mentoring, humanitarian investments

Jean Fahmy’s Experience

• Director, Digital Strategies

  Transcontinental

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TCL.A; Printing industry)

  May 2008 — Present (5 months)

  I have the responsibility to create, develop and oversee Transcontinental Media's digital strategies.
  
  In the fields of strategic management, marketing strategy, and operational strategy, digital strategy is :
  - the process of specifying an organization's vision, initiatives and processes in order to deploy their online and digital assets
  - as of 2008, digital assets include: web sites, mini-sites, mobile sites, digital audio and video content, rich Internet applications, community groups, banner ads, search engine marketing, affiliate programs, etc.
  - all this in a manner which maximizes the business benefits they provide to the organization, through organic growth and acquisitions.
  
  Today, Transcontinental Media has close to 200 online brands to renew, deploy, leverage and optimize. We are the biggest Canadian magazine publisher and the top Canadian group to reach Canadian women online. Each month, 4.2 million people happily consume TM's online content.

• Lecturer, Adjunct professor

  L'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  April 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Continuing vision: I see a world where young technology and web entrepreneurs have all the tools to start their own ventures and attain their maximum potential.
  
  I teach the bachelor's and master's level course in Technology Entrepreneurship at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal and Concordia University.

• Local and International member

  Entrepreneurs' Organization

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2000 — Present (8 years)

  - Membership & Mentorship Chair and board member for the EO Montreal Chapter (2007-...)
  - a member of the International Technology Committee for the EO (2007-…)
  - a member of the International Benefits Committee for the EO (2005-...)
  - Forum Chair and board member for the EO Montreal Chapter (2006)
  - Learning Chair and Emcee for the first annual (Y)EO Canadian Conference at Banff (2006)
  - Communication Chair and board member for the EO Montreal Chapter (2005)

• Participant

  My Community

  (Non-Profit; Philanthropy industry)

  January 1997 — Present (11 years 9 months)

  - a Lead Judge for the Undergraduate National Case Competition (UNCC) (2008-...)
  - member of the ACEE’s Governor’s council (Entrepreneur Clubs in Quebec) (2007-…)
  - member and leader in the local Toastmaster’s club (2006-…)
  - Vice-Chair (Quebec) for the 2008 Governor General Leadership Convention (2006-2008)
  - Chair of the annual Canadian Engineering Competition Debating Contest (2003-...)
  - Weekly facilitator, host and animator of a youth group with varied social issues aged between 14 - 25 years in a church setting (2000-...)
  - Mentor to many young entrepreneurs (2001-...)
  - Founding member of the Conseil Jeunesse Montréal with the mayor Gerald Tremblay – City of Montréal (2003-2004)

• Founder and President

  vyaNova inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2004 — May 2008 (4 years 5 months)

  Current vision: To aid technology, internet and software focused companies as a virtual Chief Strategy Officer through the development of the right processes, products and people. We are experts in audits, strategy, execution, investments, coaching and networking.
  
  We get you from innovation to profits.

• Founder and CEO

  brainpen

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Founded in September 2006 and in negotiations to sell in 2007, brainpen.com is an ebay-like new media ecommerce web site that captures, packages, sells, rates and secures unique experiential knowledge through advanced story - telling techniques.
  
  Essentially, brainpen.com helps anyone make an online product of their unique life experiences and sell it online. Brainpen.com permits people to create and sell an eternal personal experience database.
  
  Sold in Q1 2008

• Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

  The NessKey Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  April 2004 — July 2007 (3 years 4 months)

  Accomplished vision: I see a world where truly breakthrough technologies are developed, tested, commercialized and supported for the good of mankind and nature.
  
  The NessKey Group finds disruptive, next-level technologies that need help to be prototyped and commercialized, for the betterment of humanity. The group specializes in finding green and humanitarian technologies at all levels of the Technology Readiness Levels and bringing them to level 9.
  
  I have built the fund and it's processes and it was incredibly challenging and stimulating. I left to pursue other interests, namely in web/internet strategy.
  
  www.nessbees.com

• VP Sales and Services

  Openface Internet

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 4 months)

  Accomplished vision: Restructured a local 10-year-old Internet Service Provider by focusing on VIP, white glove, high speed, redundant, no fault, commercial internet connections in Montreal, Quebec and across Canada.
  
  - 41 employees
  - doubled recurring ebitda and revenues to 5M in 2 years
  
  http://www.openface.com

• Founder and President

  Eurekium Innovations

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

  October 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 3 months)

  Accomplished vision: I saw a world where companies could access any back-end data in real-time through any mobile device on any cellular network. We built a middleware that could do that and captured the European market with clients such as AXA Insurance, SOS Medecin, France Telecom and Orange, Cap Gemeni, Deutch Telecom, etc.
  
  - 43 employees & 4 international offices
  - 6M in investments, profitable
  
  Sold in 2003
  
  http://www.vyanova.com/eurekium

• Founder and President

  ensigna.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 2 months)

  Accomplished vision: I saw a world where IT students could work from their homes part time to collaborate and create products and services for the SMB market with an unbeatable value proposition.
  
  We had a network of over 100 students working from their homes or school labs and doing the mandates I would get them. My first entrepreneurial experience, I did everything (except the actual programming). We had specialized IT services for the textile, manufacturing and services in Montreal and abroad. Before the sale, we became experts in huge dotcom website programming and rollouts.
  
  - 12 employees + 55 part time
  - 800K in annual revenue
  
  Sold in 2000.
  
  http://www.vyanova.com/ensigna

Jean Fahmy’s Education

• Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal

  Eng., Computer engineering, minor in Technology innovation, 1995 — 2000

  He presently teaches the acclaimed Technology Entrepreneurship at the Master's and Bachelor's level at l'École Polytechnique de Montreal.

  Activities and Societies:

  Debating, School paper, Tutoring, Entrepreneurs Club

• College Jean de Brébeuf

  1993 — 1995

• West Island College

  1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Jean Fahmy’s Websites:

• My main site
• Blog
• RSS feed

Jean Fahmy’s Interests:

the Bible, my family, integrity, entrepreneurship, digital strategies, technology, disruptive technology, public speaking, conferences, Web 2.0, teaching, commercialization, strategy, strategic planning, reading, video games

Jean Fahmy’s Groups:

YEO, Entrepreneurs Organization - EO, Toastmasters, my family, Free the Children, TAG, Fellowship of Evangelical Churches in Canada, ACEE, TechnoMontreal, Governor's General Leadership Convention

•    Executive Suite
•    Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)

Jean Fahmy’s Honors:

- Winner of the 2006 Toastmasters Improv District Public Speaking Contest
- Recipient of the Leadership 2006 Award by the Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Selected participant in the exclusive Governor General Leadership Convention 2004
- "Best Business Potential" for Eurekium's mobileSapiens software at the GIGA IT Demo Showcase 2001
- Winner for Eurekium 2000 - 2001 at Pierre Péladeau's Bursary Competition
- Multiple Bursary winner of 10 000$ & 12 000$ for Ensigna.com & VexNet "idea to project" competition 1998 & 1999
- Second place for Ensigna.com's business plan at Forces Avenir 1999
- Finalist for Ensigna.com's business plan at Concours Entrepreneur BDC 1999
- Bursary winner for Ensigna.com's business plan at Quebec Entrepreneurship National Competition (university category, individual) in 1998-1999
- First place, individual speaker in the Canadian Engineering Competition in 1999
- Bursary winner in the International Bacc. program at Jean-de-Brébeuf 1995

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