Will Be Live

Will Be Live is a B2B marketing agency that empowers clients to build trust and drive growth through brand strategy and demand creation.

Founder and CEO

Techstars

Mentor

Founder Institute

Helping launch over 6,800 companies across 200+ cities and six continents with 8,100+ graduates

Innovation Partner

Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend is a global movement of driven entrepreneurs and changemakers who turn raw ideas into real startups in just 54 hours. Through immersive, hands-on events, it inspires, educates, and empowers people to collaborate, build, and launch.

Organizer - Global Team

Protiviti

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half, Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Our consulting solutions span critical business problems in technology, business process, analytics, risk, compliance, transactions and internal audit.

Director - Managed Technology Solutions

Robert Half

Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a recognized leader in professional consulting and staffing services, and is the parent company of Protiviti, a global business consulting and internal audit firm composed of experts specializing in risk, advisory and transaction services. The company’s specialized staffing divisions include Accountemps, Robert Half Finance & Accounting and Robert Half Management Resources, for temporary, full-time and senior-level project professionals, respectively, in the fields of accounting and finance; OfficeTeam, for highly skilled office and administrative support professionals; Robert Half Technology, for project and full-time technology professionals; Robert Half Legal, for project and full-time staffing of lawyers, paralegals and legal support personnel; and The Creative Group, for interactive, design, marketing, advertising and public relations professionals. Robert Half operates in more than 400 locations worldwide.

Branch Manager

When I launched Will Be Live in 2021, it wasn’t to start a marketing firm, it was to fix the recurring breakdown I kept seeing across industrial and enterprise B2B: companies investing millions into marketing and sales that either chases attention or dies in procurement. 

We built a system to shift that dynamic -- one that moves ambitious brands from being evaluated to being relied on. Not through noise, but through credibility that travels. 

Since then, we've helped global teams in manufacturing, financial services, and technology deepen trust, compress sales cycles, and show up in rooms they previously competed to enter. 

89% of our partners report direct inbound from net-new enterprise accounts within 90 days of our work together -- not because they chased leads, but because they became the brand buyers trust to lead.

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Nima Mirpourian

Stealth

Building an exciting new platform organization which will invest in and support a few portfolio companies (beginning with Fintech and Digital Assets Infrastructure).

Founder

GoQuant

Chief Operating Officer

Member of GoQuant Technologies Incorporated's Board of Advisors. Providing qualified advice to management and working closely with the Founder to identify product-market fit for new market data offerings and enhancing the digital infrastructure used to support GoQuant's market data delivery to clients.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Strategic Advisor to GoQuant Technologies, Inc and their principal, working to establish meaningful relationships in the world of financial data, to drive product development in underserved niches. 

First member of the GoQuant Board of Advisors, and chairing the process to expand the board to 12 permanent members from the very highest echelons of achievement in the financial services industry.

Strategic Advisor

Social Fabric

Appointed to Social Fabric's Board of Advisors, to provide qualified advice to management on the product roadmap, software architecture for scale, community curation, and building of a sales team and infrastructure.

Social Fabric provides quantitative and qualitative insights gauging the psyche of retail investors, and helping market participants - including those in digital assets - understand the difference between sentiment and actual trading activity. In other words, how is the social fabric predictive of their portfolio?

Advisor To Chief Executive Officer

Digital Dash Development

Digital Dash is a digital consulting firm, accompanying clients through various kinds of digital transformation projects, including new software development, online analytics implementations, user experience design/improvement initiatives, etc. Our focus is to create solutions that our customers and their customers actually want to use, and that are accessible to the widest possible segment of society. 

As Chief Operating Officer, my focus is on building relationships with our customers and helping them achieve maximum efficiency with the solutions we provide them.

Senior Engagement Manager

GO TIKKI INC

Co-founded and later (2018) led a management buyout of Go Tikki Inc, a wholesale ski travel provider. Between our network partners, we process a significant percentage of total yearly group ski travel in Eastern Canada. Innovated by automating more than 75% of FTE man-hours in year 2, resulting in growth to 1MM revenue under 2 years.

Executive Director

Along with my partner, founded Go Tikki Inc (Go Tikki Tours) in July of 2016. Afterwards, we acquired a portion of another major tour providers' business and began servicing their clients in partnership with our certified logistics partner/operator. We organize tours for retreats, ski/south vacations for large groups, and travel for youth (college and beyond).

I am responsible for running the day-to-day operations for the company - managing relationships with vendors/suppliers, administrative staff and operations, supervising sales for major B2B accounts, etc.

VP Operations

KWORLD STANDARD

Founded a software development company focused on assisting midsize and enterprise clients with digital transformation and process improvement projects. Actively recruited more than 100 subcontractors, supervised engagements with Fortune 100 customers, and maintained unparalleled value (quality-price) by adopting lean management protocols.

Chief Executive Officer

House of Commons of Canada Chambre des communes du Canada

I was a candidate for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 44th Canadian General Election, which took place on September 20, 2021. I ran for election in the riding of Riviere-du-Nord, comprising the cities of Saint-Jerome, Prevost, Sainte-Sophie, and Sainte-Hippolyte, approximately 1 hour north of Montreal.

Candidate

Conservative Party of Canada

A little foray into the world of Canadian politics was an enlightening experience... in some ways!

I held the position of national Deputy Campaign Manager for Deepak Obhrai, P.C. M.P. He was a Canadian Member of Parliament for Calgary-Forest Lawn, and was a candidate in the Conservative Party of Canada's 2017 Leadership Race. Sadly, Deepak passed away in 2019.

Deputy Campaign Manager, Deepak Obhrai

Reserve It Sports Inc (formerly known as Time Squash Inc)

Founding shareholder of a company slightly ahead of its time – a sharing economy pioneer for the world of sports facilities (primarily hockey arenas). Built out a SaaS platform in < 6 months and led the regulatory and government relations portfolios. Assisting in preparing a prospectus and soliciting investors for a Seed-financing round. Successfully exited the business to pursue other interests.

Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer

DLS MEDIA INC

Management of technology infrastructure for the company (hardware and software) Content creation (website, graphics)
Media editing (video montages, photo)
Customer Relations
Responsible for hiring of interns

Information Technology Manager

Keeyan “EK” Ravanshid is a seasoned executive with over 10 years of experience in leading and advising organizations in the fields of data, technology, and finance. Most recently, he was the founding Chief Operating Officer of GoQuant, where he oversaw the operations, strategy, and communication of the company, which provides enterprise data and trade execution solutions for institutional finance clients.

Keeyan is passionate about bringing people together to solve problems and create value. He leverages his expertise in data, software, and market insights to deliver faster, more resilient, and accessible data products and services. He also builds and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders, partners, and customers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Keeyan's mission is to connect institutional finance with the data they need to thrive in the digital economy.

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