Chief Executive Officer at PwrdBy and Mobile Product Lead


Jared is an Ohio Native (from Garrettsville, Ohio) and has started multiple technology companies over the last four years across the social impact space. His first company, PwrdBy is a social impact incubator and is the product and development arm for the Brave Cooperative. Previously Jared was a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting in their Social Impact Strategy and Supply Chain Sustainability practice. Jared graduated Summa Cum Laude from Miami University of Ohio with a double major in Accounting and Environmental Science. Jared is responsible for Brave product roadmap.

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Hardware and Software Engineer

Hi! I'm Dave. I grew up in Vancouver, went to high school in Kerrisdale, and recently graduated from UBC with an engineering degree. Over the past few years, I have been spending some time as a visitor to the DTES, where the ongoing public health emergency of the overdose crisis is hard to ignore. I started working with Brave in August 2018. Through Brave, I have met with peer support workers and other residents of the DTES who have consistently impressed me with their courage, discipline, and skill in facing this crisis. I'm convinced that we can work together to build better systems for keeping people safe while using drugs.

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UX and UI (PwrdBy)

A Vancouver native currently living in LA and working with our technology partner, PwrdBy, Sogol has worked with us to create the User Experience and Interface for the BeSafe app. We will continue to work with her as we make changes and iterate on these designs to improve the experience, as well as new products we are working on.

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Co-founder, Director and Housing Consultant (Portland Hotel Society)

Director and Financial Officer (BC Co-operative Association)

Advisor (VANDU) - Bio forthcoming

Nicolas D. Leech-Crier is a 40 years young idealist, with an occasional writing habit and a superhero wife, hailing from Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Northern Alberta. He has been very blessed to have lived and loved on the ancestral territory of the Coast Salish and has also known many a great progressive mind and movement during his 12+ years shameless romance with the City of Vancouver. But nothing like Brave. You honor us. I remain ready...

Elena Yugai has been Brave's Industry Mentor at e@UBC Impact Stream since January 2018. She works as an Investment Manager and Director of Advisory Services at Helder Ventures, a Vancouver-based impact investment and advisory firm. She plays an active role as a community and policy advocate, and has been named one of BC’s Most Influential Women in Tech - STEM Stars 2018 by BC Magazine for her work advocating for and supporting women in technology.

Barend van der Vorm is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at e@UBC and has been advising and mentoring Brave since January 2018. He is the founding director of Helder Ventures which supports and finances social enterprise. He is a member of the Impact Investment Committee at Vancity and serves on the board of S3I, the Centre for Social Innovation and Impact Investment at UBC, and chairs the Investment Committee of two private equity impact funds by IFHA which focuses on access to healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

Ann has been a tireless advocate for drug users in Vancouver for over 25 years. She's a co-founder of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Pivot Legal Society,and the Overdose Prevention Society. She has been an advisor to Brave

Mike Irvine is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, UBC and the BC Centre for Disease Control. His current research focus is on using a variety of statistical and data science techniques to understand the ongoing opioid overdose crisis in BC. He recently published a study in Lancet Public Health, which estimated the impact of the total number of deaths averted due to the take-home naloxone program. He has been an advisor for Brave.