Jourdan Urbach is an entrepreneur and retired professional violinist/composer. He was born in Roslyn, New York and currently resides in New York City.

Early life and education

Jourdan Urbach was born on Long Island, New York to Deborah and Victor Urbach. He started playing the violin before he was 3 years old and was playing the violin professionally by the age of 7. His debut was at prestigious Carnegie Hall at the age of 6. At age 7, Urbach and his parents started Children Helping Children, a charity organization, which performed at locations such as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. Concerts for a Cure, raised over 4.7 million dollars by the time Urbach started attending college at Yale University. At the age of 9, he became involved in Alzheimer's research at

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. Later, Urbach attended Juilliard, where he was featured in Teen People's 20 under 20 list at the age of 13. Urbach entered Yale at the age of 17, where he received a B.A. in liberal arts. During this same period, he wrote the score for the short film "Elah and the Moon", which debuted at the

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. As an undergraduate, Urbach started the International Coalition of College Philanthropists (ICCP) and the International Coalition of College Philanthropists. The ICCP is “is a council of college-age philanthropic entrepreneurs dedicated to coordinating and maximizing the effectiveness of fundraising operations at college campuses across the world.” In his senior year at Yale, Urbach was chosen by ASCAP to write the score for the trailer at the Columbia Film Festival, which premiered at

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and the IFC (International Film Center). Shortly before graduation, he was awarded the National Jefferson Award.

Later life

Urbach later moved back to New York as the National Director of the Jefferson Awards He made this move to help the organization pivot from a focus on volunteerism towards a modern suite of social entrepreneurism programming. Urbach served in this capacity for a year and half before becoming the Director of Research and Development and running mobile information architecture at the Brooklyn cloud technology startup

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. Urbach now lives in New York City's Upper East Side, where he serves as CTO of the same company he co-founded in early 2013, Mass Lab, which builds a mobile video platform called Ocho, which attracted in 2014 over 1.7m USD in investment from Mark Cuban and others. He currently serves as an advisor and consultant to a number of emergent companies in the New York technology space. Urbach was the also the curator of the

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Global Shapers (New York chapter) and works as a Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Arts for Peace Council.

Awards

* Winner, 2nd Place Grand Award, “Super Oligodendrocytes,” INTEL-International Science & Engineering Fair (

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), 2009 * Winner, American Academy of Neurology Neuroscience Research Prize, 2009 * Winner of University of the Sciences INTEL-

Scholarship, 2008 * Coca-Cola National Scholar, 2009 * Toyota Community Scholars National Award, 2009 * Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship Award, 2009 * National AXA Achievement Scholar, 2009 * Nestle Very Best in Youth Scholarship Award, 2009 * Tribeca Disruptive Innovator Award 2012 * National Jefferson Award, 2012 * State and National Winner of The Prudential Spirit of Community Scholarship Award, 2007 * Chosen as one of the Twenty Teens Who Will Change the World by Teen People Magazine, 2006 * Winner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, 2006. * Founder and Director, Children Helping Children 1998 - Ongoing * Founder and President, The international Coalition of College Philanthropists 2009 - 2012 * Direction of Communications, Nestle Foundation 2010 - 2011

References

External links

Ocho Launch Announcement
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