Vinayak Mahajan

Vinayak Mahajan moved to Canada as a 17 years old international student; with a torn knee ligament; after missing a flight in Amsterdam; and with no friends or family in the entire country. It was only 3 months into him learning computer programming, which he was studying at Georgian College (Barrie), that he secured the 2nd position all over Canada and achieved top 20 global ranking in Master the Mainframe World Coding Championship. This championship got him an opportunity to intern at the Royal Bank of Canada where he then accepted a full time position.

While making it big in the tech industry for about 5 years, Mahajan founded the Shared Secrets Lab - the only research lab in the world that educates people, both individuals and organizations, on gift-giving based on research done on human psychology. And soon he also founded GiftAFeeling Inc. which within the first year of existence, became the #1 R&D company in gifts and giveaways domain around the world. In the very first year of business, both his startup, GiftAFeeling Inc. and himself were nominated "Startup Business of the Year" and "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" respectively by CanadianSME National Business Awards. Today, his company is recognized as one of the Top 5 Digital & Ecommerce businesses in all of Canada.

Mahajan is also a TEDx Speaker, #1 Global Bestselling Author, Founder & CEO of GiftAFeeling Inc., and a highly recognized thought leader in the gifting industry around the world. He has been published in Exceptional People Magazine, Business Digest Magazine, has been seen on CNBC, Wall Street Select, USA Today, LA Business Podcast, and has made live TV appearances on Ticker News. He leads a team of psychologists doing research in gifting psychology and has reinvented the word, Giftophobia, in the modern era.