Noah Godfrey
Noah is a technology entrepreneur. His most recent venture, Checkout 51, is a mobile app that helps shoppers save money on their groceries, and offers packaged goods brands real-time consumer insights and strategic targeting that they can't get anywhere else. Checkout 51 was acquired by News America Marketing (NAM), a division of News Corporation, in July 2015.
Post-acquisition, Noah ran NAM’s digital businesses and innovation unit, and oversaw the development/launch of Freedom, a new business that enables packaged goods brands to easily run sophisticated, data-enriched campaigns at massive scale.
Previously, Noah co-founded GigPark, an online social media platform that allows users to find local businesses through recommendations from friends. In August 2009, GigPark was acquired by Canpages, the largest independent directories publisher in Canada (since acquired by Yellow Pages Group).
Prior to GigPark, Noah was the Founding Publisher of Dose, a national daily newspaper and digital media business backed by CanWest that he took from 0 to 340,000 daily readers in less than a year. Targeting young adult Canadians, Dose reached 10% of 18-24 year olds in its markets every single day.
With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, Noah has experience in corporate strategy / business development at both Time Warner and MTV Networks in New York. He started his career as a media investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) in New York and grew up as a child actor in Toronto.
Noah is married with 3 amazing kids (Chase, Lincoln & Britton) and works with a few non-profits, which includes his role as a Vice Chair of the Baycrest Foundation, Co-Founder of The Brain Project, and Co-Chair for the SixPoints Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund.