John Koetsier - Senior Contributor @ Forbes

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Overview

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

CB Rank (Person)

43,890

Primary Job Title Senior Contributor
Primary Organization
Forbes

Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gender Male

Website johnkoetsier.com
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John Koetsier is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia and is the Founder and CEO of Sparkplug9. John previously worked at Singular as a VP Insights. John Koetsier attended the University of British Columbia.

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs

Number of Past Jobs

John Koetsier

is the

Senior Contributor

Forbes

. Additionally,

John Koetsier

has had

past jobs including

VP Insights

TUNE

Forbes Senior ContributorFeb 1, 2016

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
TUNE	VP Insights	Aug 1, 2018	Feb 5, 2020
Inc.com	Columnist	May 1, 2017	Dec 5, 2019
TUNE	Mobile Economist	Oct 1, 2015	Aug 2018
VentureBeat	Journalist	Apr 2012	Apr 18, 2014
Canpages	Senior Manager, Online Media	Oct 4, 2010	Feb 2012
School Specialty	Director of Product Development	—	—
VentureBeat	VP of Research	Nov 1, 2013	—

Board and Advisor Roles

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

John Koetsier

holds

board and advisor roles including

Advisor

Infinite Retina LLC

Advisor

Northstar Venture Technologies

, and

Adviser

ReadWrite Labs

Infinite Retina LLC AdvisorFeb 2019
Northstar Venture Technologies AdvisorOct 2017
ReadWrite Labs AdviserMay 27, 2017

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Education Companies With Less Than $50M in Revenue (Top 10K)	3,168
Education Acquired Companies With More Than $10M in Revenue	36,692
Education Acquired Companies With Fewer Than 1000 Employees	7,796
Publishing Acquired Companies	8,657
Publishing Companies With Less Than $1B in Revenue (Top 10K)	2,514
Publishing Companies With More Than $1M in Revenue (Top 10K)	2,390
Ediscovery Companies that Exited	77,295
News Acquired Companies With Less Than $500M in Revenue	27,378
Publishing Acquired Companies With Less Than $50M in Revenue	22,762
Education Companies With More Than 100 Employees (Top 10K)	4,363

Education

John Koetsier

studied at

Simon Fraser University

and

University of British Columbia

Simon Fraser University B.A.English19901994
University of British Columbia MastersEducational Technology20052010

Events

Number of Events

John Koetsier

has participated in

events. They most recently attended, or will attend,

Web Summit Qatar 2026

Feb 1, 2026

Web Summit Qatar 2026 SpeakerFeb 1, 2026
Game Jobs Speaker New York, New York, United States, North AmericaOct 12, 2023
Traction Conference 2022 Speaker Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North AmericaAug 10, 2022
Traction Conference 2018 Speaker Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North AmericaAug 8, 2018
Mobile Growth Summit 2018 Speaker San Francisco, California, United States, North AmericaFeb 7, 2018
Traction Conf 2017 Speaker Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North AmericaMay 31, 2017

Recent News and Activity

Number of News Articles

490

News•

Jul 17, 2021