Ronnie Teja

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Ronnie Teja
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Born (1985-02-17) February 17, 1985 (age 39)
Jallandhar, India
NationalityCanadian
OccupationEntrepreneur
OrganizationBranzio
Websiteronnieteja.co

Ronnie Teja (born February 17 1985) is a Indo-Canadian entrepreneur, Digital marketing Expert, Public Speaker, and the owner of the acclaimed Branzio Watches brand.[1]

Early Life and education

Ronnie was born in Jallandhar, India andeducated at two prestigious boarding schools the Lawrence school, Sanawar and The Doon School where spent his early years.

He completed his bachelor's in Marketing and Micro-Finance from Xavier's college, Mumbai before moving to London to pursue his master at the prestigious London school of Economics to complete his MA in welfare Economics at the London School of Economics, however his dreams for further education were cut short when his family was given the opportunity to immigrate to Canada in 2008.

For his first few years after being a landed immigrant into Canada, where his family and sibling lived in a rented basement for $500/ month.

Ronnie worked 3 jobs picking blueberries from 5 am- 2 pm and then selling door to door radio advertising using public transit from 3 pm - 10 pm, 7 days a week.

Career

Ronnie is a self taught digital marketer who got his start working in digital marketing as the Head of digital for HSBC Canada, Best Buy Canada and for a brief period CMO for a small ecommerce brand.[2]

In Jan 2014, Ronnie decided against the better judgment of his parents and families advice to venture into his own business first starting a failed digital agency, then a failed mens jewellery business till he got a lucky break with Branzio watches.[3]

The idea behind starting Branzio was a passion project of his to live remotely in Thailand while working online which turned into a much larger business scaling to 10+ mil USD in 2021 which are completely boot-strapped. Along the way he's maintained his passion to start a watch business Branzio.com which in itself has scaled to a much larger business and sells to 66+ countries globally with a recent partnership with DFO to go into global retail along with this portoflio of 15 sites dealing in Software, SaaS products andl SEO Properties.[4]

Ronnie has been a speaker at a number of large Ecommerce related events including Affiliate World in Dubai and Barcelona, Ecommerce World Global, Ecomm Summitt Africa, Ecommerce Fuel summitt Palm Springs and was recently honored to be in the top 40 under 40 people to watch in Ecommerce by AWC poll in 2021/2022.[5]

Personal life

Ronnie currently resides between Bangkok, Vancouver and Melbourne.

Ronnie's father is a retired Colonel from the Indian army and his mother who he keeps as his inspiration to this day, works 7 days/ week running a private and public counselling practice in Vancouver, Canada.

References

  1. "Ronnie Teja, Founder of Branzio - Starter Story". www.starterstory.com. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  2. "Founder of Acclaimed Branzio Watches Ronnie Teja on a Mission to Make E-Commerce a More Accessible Space". www.wicz.com. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  3. Mathawan, Rohan (19 September 2022). "Ronnie Teja: The Man Who's Making A Fortune In Ecommerce". TechStory. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  4. "Ronnie Teja Helps Brands to Increase Their Online Sales". The European Business Review. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  5. Strappler, Norbert (3 June 2020). "Importance of Customer Satisfaction with Ronnie Teja, The Founder of Branzio Watches". SyncSpider. Retrieved 22 September 2022.

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