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Alex Handa

Co-founder, Groupdesk

Travel

Alex Handa co-founded Groupdesk, a Toronto company that sells white-label software for booking and managing group travel. Groupdesk's 2019 team page credited him with 20 years as an entrepreneur in group travel. In mid-2019 he brought in Janice Sousa as co-founder and CEO. His current role at the company is not confirmed by a public source.

Alex hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Alex co-founded Groupdesk, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Who founded Groupdesk?

Groupdesk's own press release of 2019-06-04 calls Alex Handa the company's founder, and BetaKit's report of 2019-07-04 calls him its co-founder. Janice Sousa joined as co-founder and CEO in June 2019.

What is Alex Handa's background?

Groupdesk's About page, as archived on 2019-12-15, listed him as Founder with "20 Years experience as an Entrepreneur in Group Travel with several successfully founded travel businesses." The page did not name those businesses.

What did he say when Janice Sousa joined?

BetaKit reported on 2019-07-04 that Handa said Groupdesk was "inventing a new way to book group travel at scale" and predicted group travel would be fully digitized within 10 years.

Does he still run Groupdesk?

Not confirmed. Groupdesk's website, checked 2026-09-19, still sells the product but names no founders or leadership team, and no current public source gives his title.

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