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After serving for five years in the auto parts industry, Mecka Co-Founder and current President & CEO, Sean Maisonneuve, discovered major limitations of readily available business systems of the day. Not only did these limitations prevent small to medium sized companies from selling auto parts online, but they also had their limits when it came to addressing issues for enterprise players. Opportunity had come knocking.

Sean meets Mecka’s Co-Founder and current Vice-President and CTO, Robin Forest, a gifted programmer with experience working on big data projects for companies such as Canada Post, NAV Canada, and DND.

With their shared passion for technology and high-performance cars, they quickly hit it off. Sean shares ideas for a system to more efficiently manage his business. Not long after, the two find themselves planning how to address the challenges of the auto parts industry as a whole and what’s more, they hatch an idea that would allow any supply chain business to operate more efficiently.

Both co-founders believed that where the early part of the 21st century was spent building “pure play” solutions for supply chain management, data management, inventory management, online payments, eCommerce shopping carts, and more, the next decades would be spent unifying this myriad of disjointed systems. They figured someone was going to do it — so why not them?

As a result, Mecka was initially founded with the descriptive name of “Unified Technology Solutions Inc.”

Robin and Sean fund their new venture through managed service and development contracts with companies outside their primary area of focus while simultaneously courting BETA customers for their planned proprietary SaaS solution—the Mecka App.

Mecka signs its first customers, then launches the first version of the app, a modest ACES and PIES catalog management system with a Wholesale B2B eCommerce portal. The fledgling company is officially in business, and starts to hire employees to service its growing customer base.

After a multi-month rebranding effort, Mecka adopts is current name of (“Mecka Inc.”), dropping the Unified Technology Solutions name. Shortly thereafter, Mecka begins a planned ramps down of its aforementioned technology consulting activities to focus all its energy on Mecka’s SaaS offerings. From this point on, the subscriber-base and Mecka’s revenue starts to grow steadily while the total number of data points within the app start to surge exponentially.

Mecka signs a landmark deal with eBay, Inc., officially becoming the third ever eBay Motors VIP partner and the first based in Canada, enabling Mecka’s extensive supply chain of novel catalog data to flow through to the eBay marketplace. Concurrently, Mecka starts working with other strategic partners to round out its offering, helping companies to more efficiently manage sales channels, logistics, payments, and foreign exchange.

With planned feature releases congruent with Mecka’s innovative approach to auto parts supply chain technology, coupled with continuous improvements to existing features, Mecka’s Business Operating System [BoS] concept starts to mature. Add to that Mecka’s high level of service and its community-based feedback loop and Mecka’s revenue and subscriber-base start to grow exponentially. This growth has enabled Mecka to correspondingly hire more Mentors to assist more companies of all sizes and types. Above all, we thank our subscribers for the privilege to serve them and hope to be able to continue to bring the industry solutions that have real-world benefits.