Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is an immigrant HR tech professional who works for a known Canadian HR startup. Parveen is an experienced HR tech professional who has worked in leading Canadian startups for multiple years. She started her career in recruiting and currently holds a senior position as a Customer Success Lead at HiredHippo – a hiring marketplace where companies get instant access to high-potential vetted cand ..read more

Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is a first generation Canadian immigrant serial entrepreneur who moved to the country when he was quite young and has since founded multiple companies in a wide variety of industries. Roy is a Canadian serial entrepreneur, startup mentor, and angel investor. He has extensive experience building companies and leading multi-disciplinary teams. His tech background enables him to gain unique ins ..read more

Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is a licensed Canadian immigration consultant and serial entrepreneur with multiple years of experience working with immigrants, partners and companies. Blayne is the founder of Bright Immigration, Toronto's leading immigration consultancy. Blayne is also the co-founder and CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of Immitracker, an immigration application tracker and service marketplace for immigrants ..read more

Prateek Bawa is a partnerships manager with over 10 years of experience in various industries including FinTech, SaaS, and E-commerce. Currently, he’s a is a Partner Consultant at Freshbooks – a company that builds accounting software for self-employed individuals and their teams. Additionally, Prateek is an ambassador at Arrive – a platform for enabling newcomers to settle in Canada and Immigrant Networks. He is also a member of several professional organizations focused on partnerships and sales career development. During the episode, Prateek highlights the importance of starting your Linked ..read more

Janey Buzugbe (Janey Buz) is a startup founder, career coach, and program mentor and consultant. She has been running her own YouTube channel for over five years. In this channel she provides relevant resources for newcomer students and professionals to navigate their careers and education in Canada. Janey is now the founder of Immiducation, a career and education network of immigrants by immigrants. This global network support immigrants by accelerating their success through learning programs & resources, community and job matching. Additionally, Janey is a Program Mentor & Consultant ..read more

Aashni Shah is the Founder and CEO of Mido – a product that allows users and companies to securely store and share their personal documents. She’s also the Founder of HypeDocs, an app that helps users track their achievements and gain confidence. Aashni graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to pursuing her passion for entrepreneurship, she worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft and Square. Nino and Aashni actually connected over their shared passion for entrepreneurship and being actively involved with Toronto’s tech ecosystem and various startup ..read more

Amir Feizpour is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aggregate Intellect – a platform that curates the world’s technical knowledge with the help of artificial and crowd intelligence.  With the help of NLP (natural language processing) and an AI community of 10K+ members, they make finding technical information in as easy as a few clicks. Prior to starting his own company, Amir worked as a Data Scientist at RBC and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford in the UK. Additionally, Amir runs a weekly hiking and monthly dinner group for Toronto founders (through which Nino and Amir in ..read more

David Mendoza is the Director of Orbit5, an Ed-Tech startup supporting international students in launching amazing careers. They support students struggling with life, school, and career through free weekly webinars, events, and on-one-on coaching. David specializes in career development, e-learning, educational tourism, and language coaching. Additionally, he is a professor at George Brown College based in Toronto, Ontario. He is a faculty team member at the Transitions to Post-Secondary Education program from the School of Preparatory & Liberal Studies. Nino and David originally connecte ..read more

Mia Nguyen is an Operations & Partnerships Associate at TKS (The Knowledge Society) – an organization focused on exposing students to emerging STEM fields that are shaping the future of our world. Additionally, at the time this episode was recorded she was also working as the co-founder of GOmana. GOmana is a virtual travel agency built for students, by students – helping students find, apply and plan for their abroad experience. Mia and Nino originally connected through a community for one of the largest youth-focused startup incubator programs in Canada called The League of Innovators. M ..read more

Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is a Canadian immigration lawyer with multiple years of experience working with both tech companies and immigrants under his belt Josh Schachnow is the Co-Founder and CEO of Visto AI – a platform that makes it easy for Canadian companies to find amazing tech talent from around the world and bring them to Canada. He’s also an immigration lawyer and Partner at a boutique business immigration ..read more