Jeff Davis

BIO

Jeff is a account executive at Vendasta Technologies Inc based in Saskatoon Canada. Vendasta builds white label software platforms for media and advertising companies to help local businesses prosper in a rapidly changing digital world. The long slow slide of newspapers revenues was heartbreaking for Jeff to watch and he s pumped to be helping major US newsgroups pioneer a new revenue model. Vendasta is growing at an astonishing rate and its exciting to be on the bleeding edge of a new industry. Prior to joining Vendasta Jeff s career as a journalist teacher and adventure tour guide brought him around the world and back. He cut his teeth in Ottawa reporting on Parliament Hill for The Hill Times and Embassy and working for the Department of Foreign Affairs. He s lived and worked in France Switzerland Thailand Japan the United States and Kenya. Jeff s journalistic work has appeared in virtually every Canadian publication of note including the Globe and Mail the National Post and Canadian Business. His subject specialities include automotive business politics military affairs diplomacy and agriculture. Jeff is a co-founder of StashBelt a social enterprise that manufactures world class leather moneybelts and travel bags in Kenya. Check out whats available in select stores at www.StashBelt.ca. And...watch for us on the upcoming season of CBC s Dragon s Den Specialties Sales negotiation online business strategy print journalism media strategy manufacturing travel security supply chain management product development entrepreneurship.