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Brad Wing | Head of YellowAPI & Platform

Claim to fame

Launched first F500 public API in Canada, mobile app +4M downloads. Signed Twitter & Foursquare. 1 start-up success, advising 2 others.

Words to live by

They say there are always smarter people with better ideas. Trick is to find them and work with them.

More information about Brad Wing

Brad is a Quebec import, having lived, studied and traveled both in Europe and Asia for a number of years, which brings a global perspective to all he does. Presently leading the YellowAPI.com global platform and mobile transformation at YPG, Brad has generated +4M app downloads, built a vibrant dev community of +2200 hackers and pioneered B2D (Biz to Dev) strategies in the start-up ecosystem. In his spare time, Brad leads the charge with Hackdays.ca, an organization promoting hackathons across the country for coders of every colour. Brad likes things to be free, not only his mobile apps and data, but his rivers and lakes where you will find him fly fishing and sipping tequila when not at a hackathon. With a background in international business, consulting, APIs and mobile development, he wants to help developers and entrepreneurs build the next great mobile & web applications.