Jourdan Urbach

Background

He was born in Roslyn, Long Island and currently resides in New York City. Jourdan Urbach was born on Long Island to Deborah and Victor Urbach.

Education

Later, Jourdan attended Juilliard, where he was featured in Teen People's 20 under 20 list at the age of 13. Jourdan matriculated to Yale at the age of 17, where he completed his Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts

Career

He started playing the violin before he was 3 years old and was playing professionally by the age of 7. His debut was at Carnegie Hall at the age of 6. Later, this turned into Concerts for a Cure, which raised over 4.7 million dollars by the time Jourdan started attending college at Yale University.

At the age of 9, he became involved with Alzheimer"s research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

During this same period, he scored for Elah and the Moon, which debuted at the Tribeca Film festival. His freshman year, Jourdan started the International Coalition of College Philanthropists (ICCP), International Coalition of College Philanthropists.

The ICCP is “is a council of college-age philanthropic entrepreneurs dedicated to coordinating and maximizing the effectiveness of fundraising operations at college campuses across the world.” In his senior year at Yale, he was chosen by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers to write the score for the trailer to the Columbia Film Festival, which premiered at Lincoln Center and the International Finance Corporation (International Film Center). Completing Yale in 3 years, Jourdan moved back to New York City to a position as the National Director of the Jefferson to help the organization pivot from a focus on volunteerism towards a modern suite of social entrepreneurism programming.

He served in this capacity for a year and half before becoming the Director of Research and Development as well as running mobile information architecture at Brooklyn cloud technology startup MiMedia.

Currently, Jourdan lives in New York City"s Upper East Side, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer of the company he co-founded in early 2013, Mass Laboratory, which builds a mobile video platform called Ocho, which attracted 1.7m United States dollar in investment from Mark Cuban and others in 2014. He currently serves as an advisor and consultant to a number of emergent companies in the New York technology space. Jourdan is the incoming curator (chair) of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers (New York chapter) and works as a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Arts for Peace Council.

Achievements

• Winner, 2nd Place Grand Award, “Super Oligodendrocytes,” Integrated Electronics-International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF), 2009 Winner, American Academy of Neurology Neuroscience Research Prize, 2009 Winner of University of the Sciences Integrated Electronics-ISEF Scholarship, 2008 Coca-Cola National Scholar, 2009 Toyota Community Scholars National Award, 2009 Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship Award, 2009 National AXA Investment Managers Achievement Scholar, 2009 Nestle Very Best in Youth Scholarship Award, 2009 Tribeca Disruptive Innovator Award 2012 National Jefferson Award, 2012 World of Children Award, 2010 State and National Winner of The Prudential Spirit of Community Scholarship Award, 2007 Chosen as one of the Twenty Teens Who Will Change the World by Teen People Magazine, 2006 Winner of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior. Humanitarian Award, 2006. Founder and Director, Children Helping Children 1998 - Ongoing Founder and President, The international Coalition of College Philanthropists 2009 - 2012 Direction of Communications, Nestle Foundation 2010 - 2011.