ChatterHigh Communications Inc.

2017 EdTech of the Year, ChatterHigh redefines engagement between high school students & post-secondary stakeholders through gamification & analytics.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Victoria, BC, Canada
  • Currency CAD
  • Founded August 2012
  • Employees 10
  • Incorporation Type Other
  • Website chatterhigh.com

Company Summary

2017 EdTech of the Year, ChatterHigh, is a web platform that allows post-secondary institutions, government, industry associations, employers and non-profits to pay to provide vetted content into a learning resource used in classrooms across N. America. The activity makes it fun for students to explore content they would not otherwise become aware of, helping them make meaningful decisions for life after high school.

Team

  • Founder, CEO

    Lee Taal is a visionary sales focused CEO with 20 years experience in business and leadership positions, of which 6 years was relationship building, presenting to, and sales into secondary schools in BC, Alberta, and Ontario. Lee's prior experience was top salesman for Immediate Images - a Digital-Out-Of-Home Company, Technical Director (6-Sigma Manager) for GE Transportation, and Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy.

  • CTO Seeker Solutions: Lead 30+ programmers to design and build a patient engagement platform that specialized in pre and post natal health. Lead dev team and dev-ops to build a software platform that analyzed online university advertisements.
    UBC project: designed and integrated technologies into the MBA classroom to enable engagement with its sister program in Shanghai.

  • Executive VP, ChatterHigh U.S.

    Carl is a certified change management and knowledge management specialist with over 18 years of executive leadership experience. Carl has 20+ yrs experience as an executive in the software development sector, as a national program/project manager, and as a school Principal of the largest G10-12 school in BC. He brings a wealth of human resources, finance, administration, project management, and operations experience to our team.

  • Chief Growth Officer

    Maninder Dhaliwal is an award winning entrepreneur, investor, and experienced Corporate Director. She specializes in international venture projects in technology. She graduated from Harvard, UBC and UofT. She holds a P.Eng designation and a Corporate Director Designation (ICD.D).
    Maninder is a Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40 and Thomson Reuters' Canada's Top 40 influencers in Finance, Innovation and Risk Management.

Advisors

  • Vice President, Students, University of the Fraser Valley. AACRAO Consultant.
    Chair of Marketing, Communications & Web Services for Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC). Manager Learning & Development, Vancity Savings Credit Union. Editor-in-Chief of The Potentiality. Past UBC Recruitment Manager
    President, Vertex One Asset Management, Inc.

Previous Investors

  • Frank Farr
    Currently President of Immediate Images Inc. Past President of Southland Corporation. Past Chair of the BC Board of Assessment
    Unconfirmed
    Frank Carey
    Chair of Carey Management, Wallace & Carey
    Unconfirmed
    John Montalbano
    Unconfirmed

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