Joshua Wachs

Joshua Wachs is a seasoned entrepreneur whose career thrives at the nexus of creativity and technology. In his senior year at Emerson College, Wachs founded his first technology company Natural Intelligence, a pioneer in commercial software for Apple’s Macintosh. At Natural Intelligence, he discovered his knack for bringing talented people together for a shared goal when he created an innovative developer apprentice program.

After selling Natural Intelligence to digital marketing agency Circle.com, Wachs served as Circle’s CTO and worked with the executive team to support the company through an IPO and then a sale of the company to Havas Creative, the fifth-largest marketing communications group in the world. Wachs co-founded a second company, Jivjiv, to create a mobile marketplace for thousands of independent artists and musicians. He later became Managing Partner and CEO of digital marketing agency Echo & Co., which operates as a social enterprise and works primarily with nonprofits to further their missions.

More recently, he has applied his team-building and technical expertise to his role as chair of the Emerson College Advisory Board, where he led the charge to add an esports curriculum to the college's sports management program. Alongside his consulting work as an executive coach, he serves on the board of directors for Circus Smirkus, a nonprofit education organization that teaches the circus arts to children, and the board of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which provides high-quality college courses to people incarcerated in Massachusetts.