Mario Vasilescu is CEO & co-founder of Readocracy, an award-winning platform that unlocks the value of the content we consume every day (articles, papers, Youtube, podcasts, books), turning the best of it into employer-ready microcredentials, social upgrades that reward people for being well-informed, and deep insights that reveal how we're shaping our minds. With his team, he is on a mission to create a future where how we inform ourselves matters more, individually and as a society.
Their work has been awarded by Mozilla as a FixTheInternet pioneer, by IBM, Canada's Digital News Innovation Challenge, and The Globe and Mail's Lab351. Mario is a robotics engineer turned designer, digital strategist, and now founder obsessed with media ecology. Prior to entering the world of startups, he led digital innovation projects and digital literacy campaigns for national organizations in Canada and France. He is based in Toronto.