LouiseGuay

From Identity Mashup

Louise Guay is President and Founder of My Virtual Model, Inc. Since 1986, Dr. Guay has opened paths and proposed innovative approaches to new media. Her doctoral thesis, the Pocket Museum (Paris, 1986) was the first presented on optical memory disk. Her research focused on virtual museums, multimedia language and virtual identities. The vision presented in her work is the basis of the companies she created YYATS, PTM and My Virtual Model. Dr. Guay is continuing her work with the goal of integrating her vision of virtual identity into marketable products that target both business and the individual. She is actively involved in strategic planning, marketing and design of products. The company mission is to create the standard for virtual identity. The user retains their Virtual Identity and the sharing of information is permission based. Major players and portals start to look at My Virtual Model and value the company mission. The My Virtual Model application is the second most used after the search engine at a number of clients. The combined enhancement of the My Virtual Model and search will equal an unmatched innovation in the retail and the shopping universe. We have developed a visual search engine to extend the use of the visual language and the virtual identity to the user\customer. On November 29th 1996, as part of the Canadian Female Entrepreneur Awards, organized by the Administration Faculty of the University of Toronto, she was awarded Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the year, in the new business category. During the 0th anniversary celebrations of the ‘Salon des Femmes’ exhibit at The Women of the Century Gala she received a certificate recognizing her exceptional accomplishments within the new technologies category. Since 1996, Louise Guay is a member of the Consulting Committee on New Technologies at the National Bank of Canada, and of the Bell Fund.