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Bob Vaez

Bob Vaez

Co-founder & CEO, EventMobi

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Bob Vaez co-founded EventMobi, the Toronto event-management software company, with his brother Bijan Vaez around 2009 to 2010. EventMobi's about page listed him as Founder & CEO when checked in September 2026. Before EventMobi he spent more than a decade in the software, semiconductor and mobile industries, at companies including ATI, AMD and Nvidia.

Bob hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Bob co-founded EventMobi, which appears in 2 talks in the archive.

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Who is Bob Vaez?

A co-founder and the CEO of EventMobi. EventMobi's about page listed him as Founder & CEO when checked in September 2026. Vancouver Tech Journal described his brother Bijan Vaez as EventMobi's co-founder and former CTO in August 2023, and Novice reported in July 2024 that Bijan started the company with his brother in 2009.

What did Bob Vaez do before EventMobi?

The page for his January 2023 episode of Alice Heiman's podcast says he had more than 10 years of experience in the software, semiconductor and mobile industries, at companies including ATI, AMD and Nvidia.

Has EventMobi raised venture capital under Bob Vaez?

Not according to the January 2023 Alice Heiman podcast page, which described EventMobi as bootstrap-funded, with no venture capital or private equity investment, 14 years after it started. No later funding round was found.

What has Bob Vaez said about the Run The World acquisition?

Meetings Today published a September 2023 podcast in which Vaez, as EventMobi founder and CEO, discussed buying Run The World, a virtual-events platform that ran 50,000 virtual events during the pandemic, as in-person meetings recovered.

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Maintained by TechTO · facts sourced and dated · last reviewed Sep 15, 2026