Joshua Shimkin

Joshua Shimkin is the Head of Marketing at Peach Payments. Joshua has over 10 years of experience in marketing and sales, with a focus on customer experience, business intelligence, and opinion mining.

Joshua started their career as a mentor for startups, helping them make smart decisions and learn from their successes and failures. Joshua then became a Director (Vice President) of Enterprise Sales at BrandsEye, where they helped clients closed R2.5M in 4 months and created custom, strategic research methodologies for clients to fulfill on their customer experience KPIs and drive their business goals. In 2017, they were a featured speaker at the All Things Data conference, where they spoke about Opinion Mining – The Future of Data Analytics.

Joshua holds a degree from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town.

Joshua Shimkin's educational career includes a certificate of competence in design thinking from DesignThinkers Academy South Africa, an MBA in finance and marketing from NYU Stern School of Business, and a BA in Italian studies from Wesleyan University. Joshua also has certification from Coursera in data visualization with advanced Excel, data-driven decision making, and problem solving with Excel.

Joshua Shimkin works with Andreas Demleitner - Co-Founder, Paxton Anderson - CFO, and Nadine Martin - Head of Operations. Their manager is Rahul Jain, Co-Founder & CEO.