I’m Greg

Welcome to my obligatory ‘about me’ page. Writing ‘about me’ pages is definitely not my greatest strength, so I suspect that I will edit this page many, many times. That’s me over there on the right ->

Growing up, my Dad was in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police so I lived in a number of different communities. I graduated from high school in Regina, Saskatchewan, then went on to study at the University of Regina. After a couple of false starts (I had a bad habit of starting businesses while enrolled in classes), I finally finished a Bachelors of Business Administration (with a Marketing major) in 2007.

Entrepreneurship has always had a special appeal to me and (thanks to the wonders of a great network) I have only worked in and around new businesses since 2005. Over those six years, I started my own business (which failed miserably) and spent three years working at Netsecure Technologies where I primarily worked on the SmartSwipe project. On a social side, in 2007 I was Cofounder/Creative Director of a street magazine (called the Regina Streets Magazine). The Regina Streets Magazine was extremely successful and I am very happy with what we achieved (however, I’m quite embarrassed that my picture is still on the Faculty of Art’s website)

Professionally, I am an odd mix. Not many people with marketing degrees have 20 years of experience with the online world (I got my start with a BBS in late 1991 when I was in grade 9). Even fewer people with marketing degrees count HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python amongst their strongest skills. Add in the fact that I do a whole lot of writing (and spent a couple of years in the publishing industry) and you see a weird mix – I’m a user experience guy with a background building applications, writing, editing, and publishing. ADHD could well be my strongest competitive advantage…