Jason Smith
CEO and Cofounder, Klue
Jason is a 5x tech entrepreneur and CEO and Cofounder of Klue, a 200+ person Competitive Enablement and Win-Loss platform serving 500+ global clients including Dell, Salesforce, Adobe and Google. Prior to Klue, Jason was President of Alida, a customer intelligence company he helped grow from startup to 500 person market leader. He was Vice President of Electronic Arts, and cofounder of Columbus Group, a web applications pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE:TU). Jason has raised over $100m in venture capital, invested and advised more than a dozen startups, received Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award, and graduated with distinction from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business.
Fun facts:
- Planted over 100,000 trees
- Lost the tip of his baby finger in Thailand
- Took a round-the-world family gap year, visiting 13 countries incl. Egypt during the revolution
- Hiked the Inca trail, paraglided over the Blue Lagoon and went cage diving with crocodiles
- Avid mountain biker and snowboarder
- Born and raised in Toronto, now calls beautiful Vancouver home
