Manny Bahia
Manny completed a joint major in Business Administration (BBA) and Economics at Simon Fraser University.
In 2008, he co-founded Daily Hive and built it into a national publisher, acquired by ZoomerMedia in 2022.
He now leads Brilliant Media Technologies, an applied AI lab helping Canadian businesses do more.
A note from our founder
I co-founded Daily Hive in 2008 and spent the next fourteen years building it into a national publisher. We built a fresh product for local markets and kept evolving as technologies and platforms changed. But the product was only part of the story. Three lessons stayed with me, and they're the reason Brilliant exists.
Work on your business, not just in it.
Most owners spend their days in the business: serving customers, putting out fires, keeping things running. The time you spend stepping back to fix what isn't working is just as valuable. But strategy only goes so far. The right technology is how you act on it. It clears bottlenecks, speeds up processes, and gives your team better tools, and that renewed energy shows in their work.
Your cash conversion cycle matters more than you think.
An invoice paid late isn't just a delay. It's money you could have reinvested in your business for a greater return, and that cost compounds over time. Shortening the gap between doing the work and getting paid is one of the fastest ways to fund your own growth.
People still make the business.
Even the best technology doesn't run a company. People do. When your team wants to be there and feels empowered to work together, they adopt new tools willingly and bring creative ideas the technology can amplify. Culture is what turns technology from an expense into an advantage.
That's how we approach every engagement at Brilliant. We start with your business: where the bottlenecks are, how cash moves, and who your people are. Then we apply AI where it makes the biggest difference. Canada's small and medium-sized businesses are where our productivity gap will be closed, and I'd like to help yours lead the way.
