Oscar A. Jofre Jr. (born October 20, 1965) is a Chilean-born, Canadian entrepreneur and technology specialist, the founder of Ottawa-based ''The BabelFish Corporation'' (January 1999), and a SaaS-based multilingual translation portal. In 1996, Jofre co-founded the Canadian Network of Language Industries Network (CLIN-RCIL),
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Industry Canada Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED; french: Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada; french: ISDE, label=none)''Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal I ...

and the National Research Council of Canada, whose aim was to “identify the stakeholders in this industry, determine their profile, pinpoint growth sectors, take stock of Canadian research in those fields, and suggest measures to ensure a leadership position at the international level”. Jofre was also the only Canadian on the United Nations/ MIT Digital Nations Board (1999–2002), whose first mandate was to explore

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

. In 2003, Jofre founded BoardSuite, a SaaS-based, secure

web Web most often refers to: * Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal * World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to: Computing * WEB, a literate programming system created by ...

application-collaborative platform, also known as a board portal, which stores and manages board documents, and addresses board issues having to do with

compliance Compliance can mean: Healthcare * Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment * Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a ...

and transparent governance. In 2016, Oscar A. Jofre Jr. and Jason Futko founde
KoreConX
a solution to manage companies’ capital market activity and stakeholder communications.

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