Inspiring Canadians Young Entrepreneurs 2022

Aymeric Jett Montaz and Juliette St-Jean

Aymeric Jett Montaz and Juliette St-Jean have a unique story! A story worth telling and that could inspire a lot of entrepreneurs in Canada and even worldwide.
At 18 years old, these two people are already at the head of a business that doesn’t stop growing!

Aymeric Jett Montaz is a young actor who played in a Netflix TV serie called “Anne with an E” and who now has a community of over 700k followers on instagram, her girlfriend Juliette St-Jean is also a young Montreal influencer who has over 40k followers. Because of their popularity on social media, they started a project that exploited social networks to offer free gifts to participants while promoting local businesses. This is how GOLD GROWTH GIVEAWAYS was born!

Born and raised in Montreal, while Aymeric has been an actor for the past 10 years, Juliette was in a science and nutrition study program near Laval but, like many people, Covid pandemic forced them to reconsider their future plans. Due to their work values and their strong ambitions, they started to think about creating a business that could help Montreal entrepreneurs to grow their business on social media! In Montreal, digital marketing is not that much developed. And, despite their young age, Juliette and Aymeric quickly understood that social networks were yet indispensable in modern marketing. That is why they launched in 2022 the company Gold Growth Giveaways: the only incorporation that connects local influencers with businesses through the instagram platform. Their business puts into relation local businesses and influencers to growth symbiotically their communities and at the same time offer free and amazing gifts to participants. It’s an amazing idea that havent been developed in Quebec yet. It redefines the concept of marketing digital and enables small local businesses to get marketing without going through the traditional and expensive process.

Building their business from the ground up and only by themselves, their incorporation started to grow insanely days after days. Within a few months Gold Growth Giveaways instagram page grew to over 20k followers and the benefits were visible from the first giveaway! The amount of ideas and works never cease to expand from Aymeric and Juliette’s mind, and while they start with only two of them, they are now the CEOs of an incorporated company with three employees.

The CEOs, Aymeric and Juliette are not even 20 years old yet, and their business is growing everyday. Undertaking this kind of project at this age is a risky bet that these two ambitious people seem to win so far. This is an example for many young entrepreneurs in terms of initiative and the will to succeed. Starting a business is not easy but not impossible! Aymeric and Juliette have the spirit of entrepreneurship and many projects are yet to come!

Ashish, fondly addressed as Ash by family, friends and colleagues, is a self-made entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada. Originally from the capital city of India, Ash witnessed the highs and lows of life early on. Until his mid-teens, he lived with his family in the low-income group housing blocks in New Delhi.

Determined to improve the future, he moved to Australia at the age of 16 and while pursuing high school, at the age of 22, he was the youngest employee of Leeds Metropolitan University where he worked as HR Assistant. His yearning for knowledge then took him to England where he successfully completed Bachelors in Business Administration and returned to India.

Ash was employed as the youngest Regional Sales Manager for American Express. Despite a more than satisfactory annual salary, he knew he was meant to achieve more, to provide the best lifestyle for himself and his family.

In 2008, Ash relocated to Canada and studied Marketing at Centennial College. Ash’s international education credentials were not easily recognised in Canada and hence, during this time, he delivered newspapers for 10 cents per paper, cleaned toilets at a restaurant, sold furniture on commission-only basis. Ash retained his focus of achieving his goal of establishing his company – Godspeed Group.

In 2014, Godspeed Group was launched under the name Godspeed Cartage, where Ash and his younger brother Abhishek ‘Abby’ Tandon offered cartage services. They had no clientele and no leads. While Ash drove around the Greater Toronto Area in his truck, seeking business opportunities, Abby provided operational and administrative support.

What started with a single truck, moved on to the two brothers fulfilling customer requests to provide temporary staffing. Ash & Abby also engaged in truck detailing business to drive a higher value proposition for their customers.

Godspeed Group is evolving as one of the fastest growing workforce solutions providers in Canada, providing contingent staffing, permanent staffing and payroll outsourcing services. With more than 2,200 associates deployed in various industries across Canada.

At the heart of our business is a dedicated team of 45 in-house recruiters that enable Godspeed Group to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers. Ash & Abby were extremely diligent in their efforts to establish a culture of trust and reliability with all of our people. This has been a significant factor in driving retention and attribute our customers value.

Godspeed Group’s approach to develop a deep understanding of customer’s needs is revolutionising staffing solutions for businesses in a broad range of industries including retail, food, manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation.

The exponential growth of the business has resulted in a cumulative growth of over 13,300% since inception.

Godspeed Group’s strategy is to develop into an integrated services model and hence, in 2021, Godspeed Supply Chain was formally launched and is providing services throughout North America.

Ash’s journey of success and triumph was evolutionary and certainly not easy.

It is this young man’s vision and perseverance that helped him create a high-performance culture by valuing respect, accomplishment and execution. It is his attitude and approach that truly makes him an achiever.

Learn more. http://www.godspeedgroup.ca/