With the first-ever Discovery Foundation Entrepreneur in Residence at Emily Carr, the ECU community can now get direct advice about how to create, refine and launch the businesses, products, projects, platforms or initiatives you might be thinking about or planning.

The residency enhances our partnership with the Discovery Foundation, which has supported the Art, Design, Business Speaker Series since 2016. It is part of Shumka Centre’s newly-established Discovery Foundation Mentorship Program, which will also encompass the speaker series.

From September 28 to December 14, technology entrepreneur Ian Bell will be available to students and faculty who would like input on their ideas from a technology, startup, product, financial or digital strategy perspective. Ian is a co-creator of RingCentral and the founder of start-ups RosterBot and Tingle.

Meet Ian:

4th Floor, Room C4218
Fridays 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
September 14 – December 14, 2018
or by appointment

Ian Andrew Bell is a co-creator of RingCentral (NYSE:RNG), the world’s most popular cloud telephony platform. He also founded and launched RosterBot, the world’s first online team management platform; and Tingle, the first dating app for the iPhone. He has worked with more than a dozen early-stage ventures and helped several of them from conception to fundraising to successful exits. Early in his career he was a Product Manager at Telus and Cisco Systems, and was an Apple Research Fellow. He co-authored a book on web design & development in 1996, and is a graduate of SFU’s School of Communication.