About Me

Veer is Director and Co-founder of Energy Inside which is creating the ‘Emotion Web’, a new segment focused on harnessing the emotional and psychological relevance of media. Emotional relevance is a personal assessment of an experience. Media delivered using computational models that are scientifically and psychologically grounded can have a targeted emotional impact on an individual. An important outcome of this is a novel mental health delivery system to help people cope more effectively, be more resilient and achieve greater emotional well-being. Through an ontology of psychological states, a commonsense reasoning system and a learning recommendation engine, Energy Inside delivers social media micro-interventions that are intended to shift mindset when a person needs it most. Micro-interventions can be pieces of media or they can be interactive exercises that are cognitive or action-oriented. They are derived from empirically supported psychological practices and are fresh, resonant and engaging.

Veer is Director and Co-founder of Humanity Calls. Over 1.9 million nonprofits are registered in the United States alone. Regardless of their passion and commitment to giving back, donors are overwhelmed by choice. It is difficult to sift through the enormous volume of information to find the “right” cause or organization to support. Humanity Calls (HC) addresses this through a brand new model – loosely described as Kiva meets the X Prize (or, perhaps – Wikipedia meets United Way). HC represents the world’s first platform where crowds of people assemble online to evaluate charities and make donations to those organizations which perform best. Much as Wikipedia relies on users to create a free encyclopedia, HC relies on the collective wisdom of many individuals to research and then vote on which nonprofit organizations are most relevant at any given moment. Every quarter, a new vote is taken, HC announces the portfolio of the most pressing nonprofits in the world, and the next fundraising campaign begins. Humanity Calls has been in development for nearly 2.5 years, completely powered by the volunteer efforts of a worldwide team of almost 50 individuals: entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, marketers, branding experts, designers, professionals of all stripes. The platform is scheduled for launch in early 2010.

Veer was CEO and Co-founder of Control-F1 which grew into an industry leader in the field of Support Automation. Control-F1 had over 85 global enterprise customers. Veer started Control-F1 in the midst of completing his degree at The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. In December of 2005, Control-F1 was acquired by CA, one of the world’s largest software companies with over $3.5B in sales. Veer currently serves as Executive Advisor reporting to the Executive Vice President responsible for CA’s product business units. Formerly he was head of sales for CA’s Service Management business, overseeing ~$75M+ in revenue.

Veer is a founding investor and serves on the Board of Directors of Neurosilicon. Neurosilicon develops novel brain-computing interfaces to expand the scientific understanding of the human brain, to revolutionize and improve the effectiveness of drug discovery, and to develop therapeutic technologies for neurological disorders.

Veer has been named to Maclean’s ‘Top 25 Under 30’ and was a finalist for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award.