John is a Visionary
Entrepreneur, Executive and Investor, seeking new
high return opportunities. John co-founded and
served as CEO, Chairman and President for 3 pre
revenue startup's, with annual sales now exceeding
$25,000,000. John's most recent major investment in
Geekforless Inc, (in 2004) already enjoys sales in
the millions of dollars under the extremely capable
leadership of Mr. Igor Nikolaichuk, CEO. John also
serves as a Director of Transgaming Inc., a world
leader in porting windows games to multiple
platforms.
John Nemanic has experience in the Canadian
financial industry through past employment with
Motorola, Bank of Nova Scotia, KPMG Chartered
Accountants and Parkview-BC/McLean Ltd. John decided
that there was a greater challenge in
entrepreneurial business than in corporate finance,
and in 1992, teamed up with Bill and Colin Campbell
to develop MegaChoice Software, a chain of retail
software stores. The partners decided to restructure
MegaChoice, ultimately creating I.D. Internet Direct
Ltd., which became the largest publicly traded,
independent Internet Service Provider in Canada.
John Nemanic was then appointed as President, CEO
and Director of I.D. Internet Direct Ltd. In 1998,
Internet Direct was named as the 7th fastest growing
company in Canada per Profit Magazine. In November
1999, I.D. Direct Ltd. was amalgamated with a
privately held company to form Look Communications,
a national wireless broadband and digital cable
provider.
In 1996, the partners purchased
www.tucows.com, a popular Internet
software site, ultimately forming TUCOWS Interactive
Inc. The company proceeded to win many prestigious
awards, including 2 consecutive Etobicoke Chamber of
Commerce awards, 1 Fast 55 award, 2 CATA (Canadian
Association for Technology Advancement) awards, and
other notable achievements. Tucows was also named by
FAST 50 as the 2nd fastest growing technology
company 1999, and 3rd fastest growing company in
Canada per Profit Magazine and Canadian Business for
1999. Tucows is now a public entity, trading on the
Toronto and American Stock Exchanges.
John was also a finalist in the Entrepreneur of
the Year awards in 1998, as recognition for his
accomplishments as President and CEO of TUCOWS. In
May of 1999, a majority of TUCOWS Interactive Inc.
was sold to the Steinmetz group and partners, and
John moved onto a new entrepreneurial venture -
Hostopia.com.
After
investing in
Hostopia, John Nemanic was nominated and
assumed the role of Chairman and CEO of Hostopia. In
July of 2000, John relinquished the role of CEO to
William Campbell, in recognition of Bill's superior
abilities and very close fit for the role of CEO.
Despite the dotcom crash of 2000-2002,
Hostopia proceeded to rapidly grow and
thrive, building a roster of Class 'A' customers
that are household names in the US and Canada. From
2000 to 2005,
Hostopia received many awards in
recognition of the firm's superior technical prowess
and focus on meeting customer needs, including
placing First, as the fastest growing company in
Canada, 2000-2005, per Profit Magazine.
In November of 2006, Hostopia completed an
Initial Public Offering, trading on the Senior
Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol, H (TSX:
H). After exercise of the overallotment by
underwriters, Hostopia raised gross proceeds of
approximately $29 million dollars.
RBC Capital Markets has acted as lead
underwriter of a syndicate that includes TD
Securities, GMP Securities, and Haywood Securities.
In February 2007, after completion of Hostopia's
IPO, John left Hostopia to pursue other
opportunities.
John is currently a director of Transgaming Inc.
TransGaming Technologies develops unique and
proprietary software portability engines that bridge
the gap between these disparate gaming systems,
allowing developers and publishers to develop
content once but deploy on multiple platforms
without the traditionally time consuming and arduous
development cycles. Transgaming is publicly traded
on the thTSX Venture Exchange: TNG.V
John is also a director of
GeeksForLess, a North American based
corporation with the majority of its skilled
workforce in Nikolaev, Ukraine. GeeksForLess is a
dependable business partner, delivering IT human
resources to North American firms seeking
specialized programming, technical support, quality
assurance testing, web design/development, system
administration and other time consuming
administrative services. The company employs over
five hundreds Software Programmers, Technical
Support Specialists, Quality Assurance Testers,
System Administrators, Web Designers/Developers,
Administrative Staff and Management.
John has held other corporate directorships and
is also a past director of RISC and CATA, and one of
the founding directors of the
Canadian Association of Internet Providers
(CAIP). In addition, he is an active investor in
enterprises operating outside of High Technology.
Today, John is an avid traveler, having visited
over 70 countries, and enjoys ecotourism, diving and
visiting places of inspiring architecture. He lives
in Latin America. He is a practicing Buddhist, in
the Mahayana Tradition.
