Swish Goswami is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, speaker, and investor. He is the CEO of audience engagement platform Trufan that helps brands generate, segment, and activate first party data. Trufan has raised over $4.1M to date (from several NBA players and venture firms) and has clients like Samsung, Netflix, NBA, NFL, PUMA and thousands of small to medium sized businesses. Trufan has acquired two world class companies: PLAYR.gg and SocialRank.
Swish previously worked as a UN Youth Ambassador, a consultant for Fortune 500 companies like Western Union, Google and American Express and a venture capitalist at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital (founded by NBA player Trevor Booker).
Swish has secured a publishing deal with Kogan Page and a sneaker deal with K-Swiss, is the host of the Tech Haus podcast and is an advisor/investor in popular organizations like FaZe Clan, Upstream, and the League of Innovators. He has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice with over 150M content views and was the co-founder of LinkedInLocal.
For his entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements, Swish was inducted into Plan Canada’s Top 20 under 20 and Bay Street Bull’s 30 under 30, recognized as the “Face and Future of Canadian Entrepreneurship” by UPS Canada, and awarded Startup Canada’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.
As a former debater who represented Canada twice at the World Schools Debating Championships, Swish also has a passion for public speaking. He has given three TEDx talks and enjoys speaking under North America’s prestigious bureau Speakers Spotlight. He has spoken around at the world including at Harvard University, Wall Street Journal, STAPLES Center, World Business Dialogue, American Express, IIT Bombay and the United Nations.
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