Richard Tuck Email & Phone Number

Île-De-France, France

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

We are a distinct financial services firm that operates within, but is divergent from, the existing economy. Wakopa Financial is cooperatively-owned by radical professionals working to create positive change in our community. We do this by providing the wrap around financial supports and mentorship for atypical entrepreneurs (youth, Indigenous, social, LGBTQ2, etc.), startups, and social enterprises that are innovating, organizing, and creating systems change for the world.Wakopa Financial Workers’ Co-operative has a distributed home office network located on Treaty #1 Territory, the original land of the Cree, Ojibway, Dene, and Dakota peoples, as well as the homeland and birthplace of the Métis Nation. The water we drink comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation on Treaty #3 Territory and our electricity comes from Treaty #5 Territory. We celebrate our Indigenous heritage and acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past as we work together in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.Our collective experience spans large cities with mature innovation scenes (New York, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver) and small cities with burgeoning innovation scenes (Victoria, Kelowna, Calgary). Comparatively, Winnipeg’s innovation scene is still very nascent and continually makes the same mistakes that these cities made along their respective journeys. We want to catapult Winnipeg ahead of the mistakes, and use the successes of these cities to advance atypical entrepreneurs, social enterprises, and startups because that is who we are, and that is who invest in!

Over the years I have mentored, joined, or advised tech companies, I have participated (in part or in whole) in almost 20 different incubators, accelerators, and startup co-working spaces from Vancouver to Toronto to New York to Boston and back. Through this journey from cohort to cohort, I have met life-long friends, future business partners, mentors and investors, as well as snake-oil salespeople leeching off of the naivety of young entrepreneurs. While most programming taught similar, useful tactics to find product-market fit, I witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly of startup life, and learned a hell of a lot along the way.Today, I use that experience and knowledge to help startups across North America, as well as consult to burgeoning incubators, accelerators, and startup spaces that want to focus on the success of their startups, social entrepreneurs, and communities. You would think this was the common goal of incubators and accelerators; however, after extensive insight and a nation-wide study, I found out that it's not! Instead, most are real estate and event planning plays more concerned about their self-promotion than the entrepreneurs they purport to serve.

Ottawa, On, Ca

Helping Indigenous entrepreneurs scale and grow their organizations by connecting them to government programs and services.

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

At Red River College's School of Indigenous Education, I coordinated, educated, and inspired in a brand new program which I co-developed with a group of passionate educators wanting change. By reconceptualizing education, we made an experiential, project-based, modular program, open to a wide variety of learners, and embedded with Indigenous teachings, ceremony, and ways of knowing. Students are introduced first to a multitude of for-profit, non-profit, and cooperatively structured social enterprises addressing today’s most pressing needs. After which, they work alongside industry on project-based experiences so that they have a real understanding of what it takes to tackle these environmental, social, cultural, and spiritual issues. The program culminates with the opportunity to incubate each student's or group of students' own social enterprise idea and then launch it upon graduation.

OMBU is a small group of idealists developing the best technology solutions to fit organizations, social enterprises, or startups to create impact and value.We focus in techlanthropy – technology for social change. We help organizations, socially conscious businesses, and small businesses adapt their business model and improve their capacities. By implementing low-cost high-impact content management systems (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal) or custom-built web systems with social media integration, organizations are better able to present themselves to a vast body of donors, board members, and visitors without having to rely on a few people to make all the changes.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Riipen is a technology platform that leverages industry-student engagements (in-class projects, case competitions, hackathons, co-ops, internship, etc.) into relevant micro-experiences based on industry-verified employable skills. Employers use Riipen to build pools of talent and brand ambassadors that can be used for data-driven recruitment. Educators use Riipen to facilitate experiential learning at scale. Students use Riipen to graduate, not just with a diploma but, with 30 different micro-experiences with 20 different organizations across 10 different industries, thus building their skills to get meaningful work upon graduation. Riipen was named Canada's Top Social Enterprise in 2016 - our mission is to eliminate graduate underemployment - and named one of Canada's Top 15 Startups in 2017. While CEO, we raised $1.4M in seed funding, including (at the time) Canada's largest equity crowdfund, we grew from 3 to 30, and we expanded from 5 schools to over 120 across North America and into Australia, NZ, and the UK.

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Areas of Research: Business and Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, InternationalBusiness, Microfinance, and Clean Technology.

North Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Phd, International Management & Organization

Bib, International Marketing, Spanish

Msc, Corporate Finance

Ingeneria Comercial, International Business And Marketing

Mba, International Business