Serial Entrepreneur, Innovator, Award-Winning Marketer
Vancouver, Canada Area
Serial Entrepreneur, Innovator, Award-Winning Marketer
Vancouver, Canada Area
Michael Bidu is a strategic thinker, conceptual marketer and an entrepreneur at heart, who sees the Internet as a powerful medium for people and companies to connect and interact with each other to create meaningful mass collaboration and smart communities at local level on a global scale.
Michael has more than 15 years of experience in executive management, business development, branding, direct marketing, CRM and strategic communications across traditional, web and wireless platforms on the agency and client side. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded ventures in fashion, Internet adventure travel, interactive marketing, software and Web 2.0/wireless in tourism. He is also a recipient of the 2002 Award for Advertising Excellence from the BC American Advertising Association.
Currently he is the Executive Director of WINBC. Previously he was the Founder and CEO of CityDazz Interactive Inc. an upcoming web/wireless start up based in Vancouver, BC Canada focusing on helping consumers find "dazzling customer experiences" via innovative location-based services, local/city advertising and deep user generated content on their mobile phones (kinda Travel 2.0).
Wireless, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, digital technology, direct marketing, advertising, mobile advertising, LBS, branding, CRM, viral marketing, business development, sales, and media in tourism, travel, technology, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and franchising.
Multilingual: English, French, Romanian and various degrees of German, Italian and Spanish
Entrepreneurship, online and mobile technologies, social networking, CRM applications, design, new media, tourism, travel, food, fashion, running, skiing