Founder's Story: Jerome Ng, CEO of VenueSpot & Paul Brassard, CEO BrickClick

Join us for a night of education and inspiration as we explore the startup journey through the lens of non-technical founders, Jerome Ng (CEO and co-founder of VenueSpot) and Brassard (CEO of BrickClick & Elevator Ventures)

Jerome will be answering questions all about the company, his experience in the Valley, and what is was like to take part in one of the most notable startup schools in the world: 500 STARTUPS.

Paul will follow and continue our conversation about the personal journey in both of his companies, SaaS BrickClick and investment fund Elevator Ventures.

Also, we'll be talking more about our upcoming event Protohack: The Code-Free Hackathon - where you'll be able to take your startup ideas from concept to company.

Agenda:

6:00pm - Mix and Mingle

6:30pm - Q&A with Jerome (VenueSpot)

7:00pm - Q&A with Paul (Brick Click)

7:30pm - Idea Share

Jerome Ng, CEO + Co-Founder of VenueSpot

Jerome is the founder of VenueSpot, an online marketplace that connects event organizers with available venues. VenueSpot works with over 5,000 event spaces across 9 cities and has helped thousands of event organizers find venues

www.venuespot.co (http://www.venuespot.co/)

As CEO of VenueSpot, Jerome led a ten-person team and fundraised half a million of venture capital. He also mentors early-stage entrepreneurs at Launch Academy - Western Canada's leading startup hub, and is an alumni of 500 Startups - a top-tier global startup accelerator. He’s passionate about technology and events and tweets at @JeromeZNg (http://twitter.com/jeromezng)

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Paul Brassard, CEO of BrickClick & Elevator Fund

An entrepreneur and innovator from a young age, Paul has extensive experience in customer service, web development and marketing, and business management. His interest in cutting edge technologies, combined with a knack for systems analysis and creation, has led him to develop multiple successful projects.

In addition to being the CEO of BrickClick--a retail tech software that is built to be the future of retail--Paul is the Founder and CEO of Elevator Ventures--a company that provides high level business, marketing and management consultation services—as well as provides operations, business development and communications services for Burnaby-based coworking community, Spacekraft.

brickclickrms.com (http://brickclickrms.com/)

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