thinknao

With our managed mobile test prep platform, we change the lives of people taking exams and disrupt an out-of-date industry - education.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Education
  • Location Canada
  • Currency USD
  • Founded September 2009
  • Employees 3
  • Website thinknao.net

Company Summary

Technology and mobility are restructuring the way we learn. thinʞnao merges the two with its managed mobile test prep platform. The platform and the company has had significant traction in China (posters in Apple retail outlets) and globally (60+apps, several Tier 1 outsource customers, 5m downloads, etc). Founder, DVD, a former exec with major companies, speaks Mandarin Chinese. Test prep growing organically, through word of mouth promotions.

Team

  • David Van Dyke
    President & CEO

    David Van Dyke, a resident Canadian entrepreneur that has previously lived in Asia for 20 years, is the founder of thinknao, an educational software developer and strategic consultancy. Formerly a VP and Director at Nokia, Motorola and Cisco and a manager at Bell Canada and Deloitte Consulting, David has diverse experience in sales, product development, strategy, team-building and crisis management. David speaks Mandarin Chinese.

  • Harold Goldin
    Vice President

    Thinknao Vice President, Harold Goldin, is fluent in Mandarin and literate in Chinese. In addition to two decades of adult education and training experience in various regions of China, and he has been a leader for several private sector education projects.

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