CANADA’S BOLD MOVE TO ATTRACT HIGHLY SKILLED TALENT PAYING OFF
Sharoon Thomas could have applied and begun the multi-month wait last year to secure his permanent residence through the startup visa program created by former U.S. president Barack Obama’s administration. Good thing he didn’t.
He is the CEO of fulfil.io, a startup that provides cloud-based inventory management, purchasing, and accounting functions to small- and medium-sized retailers so that they can fight Amazon’s fire with fire of their own.
Thomas, originally from India, went to the United States as an entrepreneur, but found that as an employer his visa options were limited. He was motivated to move to Canada because of its Start-up Visa (SUV) program.
“Canada seemed like an excellent fit for what we were doing as an early stage company,” Thomas, who relocated to Toronto in late May, said in a phone interview.
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