SOHO Team

As the President and Chief Executive Officer of SOHO Business Group, Moe Somani is responsible for the company’s vision and overall direction to be the #1 business-to-business connector for small and medium size businesses.

Prior to launching SOHO in British Columbia Canada, Moe held highly successful sales, marketing, and management positions with Pitney Bowes of Canada for eight years. At the age of 30, two weeks after launching SOHO, Moe was hospitalized with a rare spinal cord condition, which left him paralyzed from the chest down. He was told by doctors he would never walk again. With a positive “mind over matter” attitude and aggressive rehabilitation, Moe was able to successfully overcome this life challenge within a mere six months.

Today, SOHO is recognized as one of the fastest growing marketing and special events companies supporting small and medium size business and connecting service providers to SOHO and SME businesses in Canada. SOHO’s growth and success is the result of Moe’s passion and enjoyment of doing what he does best – connecting with people.

In his current role as President/CEO, he continues to drive the sales and marketing activities of SOHO with consistent growth year over year, servicing annually over 35,000 SOHO/SME businesses, over 20 events, over 12,000 event registrations and over 5,000 sales leads for corporate partners offering key business products and service offerings.

Moe is also very active in the community and donates countless hours to charity. Among others, he is well known for launching World Partnership Golf, an initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation Canada, which raised funds that go directly to projects that benefit communities in the poorest countries of Africa and Asia. Moe is also the past Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Small Business BC, a non-profit organization catered to the small business community and currently sits on the Board of Governors for Junior Achievement of BC, a leader in delivering business education programs for young people.

Born in Uganda, Africa, Moe’s family immigrated to Canada in 1972. Moe presently resides in North Vancouver, B.C. with his wife Salma and two beautiful children, Jasmine and Jordan.

Inspirational Quote: It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
- Vince Lombardi

Jaime Ward began work as a graphic designer and marketing specialist in 2003. Previously she studied and worked briefly as an animator.

She firmly believes that she is in fact, a jack of all trades. With experience in branding, web design and development, marketing, copy writing, large displays, tradeshow design as well as management and accounting, she can do it all...

On her off time Jaime is a competitive boxer and a 2012 Olympic hopeful. Her focus on boxing throughout the years has made her the determined, hard-working person she is today. It has aided in her problem solving skills and made her a very dynamic thinker. She has no concept of the word "fail" and will go to great lengths to find a solution in her work and just like in boxing, she will come at the problem from many different angles.

Jaime is the Creative Director for SOHO. She undertakes the management of all creative, including print and web material and will be responsible for the re-design of SOHO in 2010.

Inspirational Quote: Rules can be broken – but never ignored
– David Jury

For more than 20 years Jennifer has been helping small business owners and entrepreneurs organize their companies and set up their administrative and bookkeeping systems. In addition to this, her background includes human resources, facilities management and five years in the domain name development industry. Jennifer specializes in full cycle accounting and all other aspects of maintaining a successful financial organization.

SOHO's IT department is headed by Andy Cheng, Director of Information Technology at SOHO Business Group. Originally from China, Cheng holds a Computer Science Diploma from Northeast University in Qinhuangdao, and is a fluent Mandarin speaker. Upon moving to Canada in 2001, Cheng enrolled himself at Trinity Western University, where he obtained his B.Sc. with a major in Computer Science and a minor in International Marketing. During his time at Trinity Western, Andy was hired by the English Department to program an online registration system for their faculty's annual conference. His biggest accomplishment to date is creating a brand new on-site registration system for SOHO and upgrading the SOHO website in order to make it more user-friendly. In his spare time Cheng enjoys playing video games and soccer.

Inspirational Quote: Impossible is Nothing
- Adidas Commercial