About Alex de Bold
I specialize in strategic business development.
I’ve spent my entire career being an Early Adopter of new media and most of my adventures have focused around how we interact with technology and how it can be used to our advantage.
Over the last 3 years my wife, Ali de Bold (aka Miss Chickie) and I have bootstrapped the social media website called ChickAdvisor.com. We’ve worked with a number of great people who have made this happen believing in what we can do. ChickAdvisor has gone on to receive great peer recognition that includes advertising relationships with some of Canada’s most recognized media & beauty brands; Alliance Atlantis, Rogers, Maybelline, Garnier to name only a small few.
The irony here is that Ali, my wife, was an employee of my first company ProfessorJones. In 1996 I wrote a business plan to sell textbook to students over the internet (using a VPN to mirror just in time inventory at publishers using EDI because XML and API’s didn’t exist) and use Canada Post as the distribution framework. Ali was hired through a field marketing company to represent my company on the University of Manitoba campus. Seven years later we met in Toronto through a mutual friend and eventually married.
I have worked with the following companies;
- Labatt Breweries of North America (CPG),
- Centrica North America (Energy/Home Services),
- Butterfield & Robinson (Active Luxury Travel),
- RedFlagDeals.com (Online Community),
- BubbleShare (Online Photo Sharing)
- and Viigo (Mobile Content).
for more details please view my Profile on Linkedin.
