Victor Li

Co-Founder & CEO

2019 - Current

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Co-Founder

2021

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Founder & General Partner

2021

Angel Investing Fellow

2021

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Fellow

2013

The Cansbridge Fellowship is a non-profit dedicated to building the business leaders and entrepreneurs of the next generation. Each year, the Fellowship sponsors 15 of the top Canadian University students to take part of the Asia Internship Program, enabling them to take risks and to grow both personally and professionally. Beyond the Internship program, alumni keep in touch through various meetups ranging from the Bay Area to Taipei, with the vision of building a sustainable network of like-minded entrepreneurs.

VP Recruiting

2017 - 2018

• Managed 20+ campus ambassadors on recruitment initiatives across 15+ Canadian Universities resulting in applications growing at 3.3x YoY with an acceptance rate of <5% • Reported directly to the Board of Directors

Co-Founder, Hackathon as a Service

2017 - 2018

• Rapidly built, designed, validated and commercialized the global offering for a niche innovation service, reporting to the global Chief Innovation Office and Chief Learning Officer • Responsible for the pricing model, GTM strategy, partner fundraising, and staffing and managing a team of up to 20 on each hackathon • Sold $300K+ in client hackathons to Fortune 500 clients within first year of operations resulting in 200+ ideas and prototypes • Raised $400K+ in sponsorship from partners such as AWS, IBM, Microsft, Salesforce, Intel and Stibo Systems

Millennial Innovation Council NA Lead & Toronto Chapter Co-Founder

2016 - 2018

The Millennial Innovation Council (MIC) is an Employee Resource Group within Capgemini that serves as the sandbox for employees to innovate, create and lead in the company through cross-generational collaboration. The MIC is 600+ members strong in NA. • Awarded the Business Impact Industry Award at the National 2018 Diversity Best Practices Award Ceremony for developing Hackathon as a Service within MIC • Managed a group of 60+ volunteers across shared services teams, project teams, and 12 local chapters to execute innovative initiatives across NA and globally for 170K+ employees • 2x YoY membership growth reaching 700 total across NA by end of 2018

Digital Experience Specialist | Accelerated Solutions Environment

2017 - 2017

Executed the $2M digital transformation strategy for the Accelerated Solutions Environment by coordinating with the UK team on rolling out new technologies, resulting in a 5% increase in sold events since the rollout of the digital pilot in Q2 2017

Consultant

2016 - 2017

Worked with a Top 5 Canadian Utility client to: • Eliminate millions in bad debt through customer engagement strategy and communication process redesign (successfully reduced $10M) • Write and maintain an excel VBA script to automate reporting, estimated to save 1 FTE of effort for the Case Management team responsible for the top 100 accounts

Co-Founder

2016 - 2017

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Co-Founder, CEO

2015 - 2016

Atria is a mobile platform that lets you raise money for charity by exercising. Be motivated to exercise by knowing that each workout you complete directly earns money for a charity of your choice. Compete with other users on monthly leader boards to see who can raise the most money for charity. Top performers will receive individual rewards and prizes each month. Atria is providing a means for millennials to become more engaged with charity by doing what they already love to do - use their phones and go to the gym. Add purpose to your movement by working out for a charitable cause.

Brand Ambassador

2015 - 2016

Payso (now Finn.ai) was a mobile app that let you share money with friends as easily as sending a text - think Canadian Venmo. • Developed and executed a University GTM strategy alongside co-founders • Organized several events in collaboration with student communities and clubs to increase brand recognition and adoption of the Payso app

QICSI Intern

2015 - 2015

The Queen’s Innovation Connector Summer Initiative (QICSI) is a joint initiative between the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and Queen’s School of Business. Unique in Canada, QICSI acts as a catalyst to advance innovation and entrepreneurship throughout Queen’s and eastern Ontario. Students from across campus spend the summer learning about entrepreneurship, corporate innovation and change management from faculty, alumni, entrepreneurs and business experts. Working in teams, they develop their own companies or contribute to corporate innovation in partnership with industry. Selected as one of forty-four students to participate in an Executive-MBA-style boot camp and to form a multi-disciplinary entrepreneurial team that works to create a start-up company throughout the summer. Startup successfully awarded $5,000 in funding and acceptance into the GrindSpace XL Startup Accelerator.