About Emile Cambry Jr

Emile Cambry, Jr. , born May 25th, 1980, grew up on the West side of Chicago to two parents in the health care arena. His mother has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and his father has been an Emergency Room Physician for over 28 years. Following his parents, Emile pursued an undergraduate career in business, interested in the health care sector. Emile Cambry, Jr. attended college at the University of Chicago, where he taught calculus, played collegiate baseball for four years, and received his bachelor’s degree in Economics in 2003. After college, Emile joined the Barack Obama campaign for U.S. Senator, and served as an intern for over a year. During that time and until June of 2008, Emile also wrote a financial column for The Chicago Defender and Upscale Magazine, discussing financial and economic issues. Additionally, Emile was the host of his own radio show entitled Listen Up, on WHPK 88.5FM, interviewing young professionals who were making a difference in their community and provided a platform to discuss areas of opportunity for affecting change.

Emile has served as a Guest Lecturer at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and been a guest on various Chicago public access television programs discussing change in America. Additionally, Emile was a contributor to the popular technology publication ReadWriteWeb.com under the alias, Jay Fortner (to avoid getting in trouble with his former employer JPMorgan Chase). Emile has also been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Venturebeat, Mashable, Killer Startups, Bu.bblio.us, Fox Business, Illinois Technology Association, and the Chicago Tribune.

Recently, Emile Cambry, Jr. fulfilled his education on full merit scholarship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, having received his MBA, while concurrently being enrolled in the JPMorgan Scholar Program, a rotational program with the bank. Emile graduated in June of 2008. At Kellogg, Emile concentrated in Technology and Innovation, Strategic Management, Finance, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship. Despite Emile’s experience in banking, he has pursued various projects involving the intersection of healthcare, finance, and technology. Emile is also a Master’s degree candidate in Public Policy from Northwestern University, expecting to graduate in 2010.

Emile is the Interim CEO of the James Williams & Company accounting firm that specializes in audits and compliance for the public sector. Emile is also the Executive Producer of an exciting new full length feature film, being filmed in the forth-quarter of 2009. The short for the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May 2009.

Emile is currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern College. Emile teaches BUSN120: Microeconomics and ACCT120: Financial Accounting.

Emile is the co-founder and CEO of Soceeo and SavvyDoc vertical internet companies, all very, very young.

Soceeo’s blog is here, SavvyDoc’s blog is here.

Soceeo is a web-based platform for individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions to create their own web based social network in a matter of minutes. We built Soceeo because we wanted people, organizations, brands, and companies to have a web-based platform to make all the activities they do offline, happen online. We have been in too many situations where we were unable to organize and broadcast ourselves because we didn’t know a web developer who could do it cheaply, and effectively. Anything from setting up a collaborative space for their bowling league, to organizing an exploratory committee for an upcoming political race has been cumbersome because of the lack of tools out there that are cheap and unfortunately, they provided the one-size-fits-all approach to software. Additionally, if we were part of that bowling league and that exploratory committee, we’d have to use different software services if we found them..

With Soceeo, we wanted you to have one service, one website with the customization, privacy, and security that could power the collaboration of tomorrow. We want you to set up a social network for anything and everything, and the ability to easily manage all of those networks. That’s why we’re here. We’re at the beginning stages of fulfilling our mission, but as we move forward and add lots of new features, we’re focused on providing tailored software applications to your particular niche, vertical, and social interest.

SavvyDoc is a mobile and web based platform for doctors to market their practice and allow patients to make a real-time appointment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just as simple as making a restaurant reservation online. Patients will use the SavvyDoc platform to learn more about prospective health care providers by searching doctor profiles by specialty, location, insurances accepted and available appointments. Advanced functionality will include search items such as gender, name, languages and accepted payment methods. With a transparent appointment system that broadcasts appointment openings, a prospective patient can make an appointment that fits their schedule or easily change an appointment when a patients schedule suddenly changes. This ease of appointment making is not currently available to patients.

It takes less than five minutes for a doctor to integrate into the SavvyDoc platform. This will allow a doctor to create a unique profile page containing text, picture and video. These profile pages are modeled after social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIN, with the added benefit of an appointment system similar to OpenTable. Additionally a doctor will have the option of uploading documents so that patients will have easy access to pre- and post-surgical care instructions, registration forms, facility information or coupons. Few private practice doctors have tapped into the marketing power of the internet and those that have are incurring the high cost of operating a stand alone website and the necessary advertising costs to drive traffic to a stand alone website. Our survey of doctors has found that 38% claim to have a website but only 18% of patients are aware of their doctor having a website. The SavvyDoc platform will alleviate this discord by creating a search engine optimized network. Based on our unique business model, for every dollar a doctor invests in SavvyDoc there will be $6 in additional profit for that doctor through a transparent appointment system as well as capitalizing on the marketing power of the internet.

We are based out of Chicago, IL and expanding to the San Francisco, CA area in the coming months. We are currently in private alpha.

Emile can be reached at ecambry at Gmail dot com or 773-882-2936