Hansen, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Hansen

Geoffrey Hansen is the Managing Director of Rocket Builders, a management consulting firm specializing in helping technology companies grow and prosper. Geoffrey is a seasoned executive with management experience in software development, product management, product marketing, and venture capital. He had several successful startup companies, but is probably best know as the former General Manager of Multiactive, as an investment manager with the Western Technology Seed Investment Fund (Ventures West), and as a market analyst for B.C.'S Ready to Rocket list of high growth technology companies.

At each company Mr. Hansen has been a founder, executive or investor with, gaining industry recognition well beyond the size of the company has been a hallmark. Mr. Hansen is actively researching emerging technologies and business models and is a well respected analyst of future trends and business opportunities.

Exploiting New Business Opportunities - Lessons from the Launchpad

Emerging technologies present opportunities for businesses, new or old, to rocket upward to new levels of revenue. Taking lessons from companies that have successfully demonstrated explosive 'rocket' growth, Mr. Hansen will explore the technologies and business models driving growth in today's markets. Mr. Hansen will provide practical and entertaining tips for selecting opportunities, removing risk and maximizing success based on years of success in predicting potential and optimizing growth in emergent opportunities.

 

 

 

 

Geoffrey Hansen spoke to us in March 2012.

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.