John Powers Email & Phone Number

SummaryJohn Powers, CTO Cambrian House: John loves startups, software and people. Since the age of 14, he has been involved in community-based software development and entrepreneurship. His fifth - and most recent - startup Cambrian House launched in 2006. Since then, it has become an internationally-recognized leader in crowdsourcing (leveraging the wisdom and participation of online crowds for commerce). In his role as CTO, John has been invited to speak about Web 2.0, entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing at Cyberport Hong Kong, Harvard Business School, MIT, Community 2.0 Las Vegas, MESH Toronto and has been interviewed by the Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Business Week, UK Guardian and more. In March 2007 he won the Great Canadian Pitch-Off at the Canadian Venture Forum and was named Canada’s Internet Revolutionary by Profit magazine. In August 2007 Cambrian House was labeled #3 out of the top 10 world shaking business models by Business 2.0.John sold his last software company, Servidium, to ThoughtWorks, received a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta and holds a software patent related to innovative rendering techniques.Specialties: Angel investment, startups, marketing, technology and crowdsourcing