Bringing the world of online and local together to support
the growth of a place we call home.
Our Mission
Bring buyers and sellers within the same community together to
support the local economy by creating an easy and convenient way
to buy online.
Our Core Values
Go far together
Be kind, as there is no cost
Serve generously
Dare to be creative
innovative and customer-centric
Respect
Do the best
Support local
Constant learning
Environmental consciousness
Meet our Expert team
Shogonya Kaskile Mnyonge
CEO and Founder
Tokalema Nadège Galbané
Manager, Finance & HR manager
Monaja Francis
Chief Technology Officer
Hiring
Sales/Marketing Lead
Why Choose Us
Why -Purpose, cause, belief, why should someone care?
Flourish Sales aim to explore the setbacks of local business
due to the pandemic, COVID-19, and its adverse effects on the
local economy, and local businesses. COVID-19 is not only
detrimental to human health, but it has also majorly increased
the wealth gap between local small & medium-sized businesses
(SMEs) and large retail chains.
The Covid-19 pandemic tested the local small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) like never before. Their resilience and
ingenuity were evident and many emerged stronger than ever
with more meaningful relationships with their customers.
We saw consumer behaviour change as well with a huge shift to
non-contact transactions, such as online shopping and curbside
pickup. At Flourish Sales, we believe this behaviour is here
to stay. We see an opportunity where others see a challenge.
Online Made Easy – for You and Your Customer
As shopping shifted quickly online, the easier choice was to
rely on large national and multinational retailers –
everything at the customer’s fingertips delivered right to
their door. For many SMEs, this puts a spotlight on major
problems they’ve been facing for years, including the absence
of a website or the internal structure to track inventory, the
option to deliver products, and most importantly, the ability
to market to their target customers.
What if the customer wanted to choose local first?
We Care About Local
Our vision of helping rebuild local economies extends beyond
our online solution.
When purchasing your product through Flourish Sales, your
customer's investment means that dollars spent locally can be
reinvested within the same community. As we all know, Local
businesses generate a substantial impact and provide many
added economic benefits over chain retailers. Locally owned
businesses will consistently exceed their chain competitors,
and the “Support Local” movement is critical to economic
growth.
How?
Flourish Sales gives your customers what they want – the
ability to find, choose and support local, mirroring the ease
and convenience of the retail online shopping experience
traditionally seen with large national brands.
Shogonya Kaskile Mnyonge
CEO and Founder
Shogonya - has extensive experience in community-based
approaches and organizational management. He founded a
Non-profit organization ODWEP over 11 years ago. ODWEP works
within the East and Central part of Africa to empower the
disadvantaged: single mothers, orphans, and people living with
disabilities.
Over four years ago, Shogonya saw an opportunity to address
the gap between multinational retail companies and local
businesses. So he created Flourish to keep profits within the
community – dollars spent locally can be re-spent within the
same territory to raise the overall economic activity level.
According to Shogonya, supporting local businesses means
rebuilding the economy in the place we call home.
He has a bachelor's degree in Business Management and a
Diploma in Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (TME)
from the University of New Brunswick. He is currently studying
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering with a minor in
Math and Computer Science.
Tokalema Nadège Galbané
Manager, Finance & HR manager
Tokalema is a goal-focused accountant fluent in both English
and French. She has over six years of experience managing
finances for various companies, including payroll, budgets,
reports, audits, journals, expenditures, and payments.
Tokalema is also a certified national bookkeeper.
Tokalema has worked as a Tax consultant in the US with
Improove Inc. and Nasary Enterprise as an Executive and
Financial Assistant. She brings to Flourish expertise in
accounting and will contribute to the company's growth by
ensuring financial integrity.
Tokalema holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration
with a major in accounting. Tokalema is currently pursuing a
graduate degree in Humanitarian Aid at Kalu Institute.
Nasrin Eshraghi Ivari
Assistant Chief Technology Officer
Nasrin's experience includes working as a Data Scientist at
the University of New Brunswick and as a graduate research
assistant and university lecturer at Payam Noor University,
Bahar Institute of higher education. She is an R&D Engineer
and has worked with Ramjan Information Structure, an Iran ICT
based in Iran. In addition, she worked in the People in Motion
Lab at the University of New Brunswick.
Her expertise includes implementing analysis and visualization
techniques to increase data usability for the Location-Based
Service (LBS) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
department. Currently, she is researching machine learning and
data mining techniques to implement an IoT platform for data
streaming clustering.
Nasrin has a master's degree in computer science, specializing
in distributed computing, from University Putra Malaysia
(UPM). At UPM, she developed a network routing protocol with a
genetic algorithm. In addition, she holds a second Masters's
degree in Computer Science in Geomatics Engineering from the
University of New Brunswick.
Priyanka Meghane Dhanie
Administrative Assistant
Priyanka has extensive experience with administrative tasks,
including scheduling and correspondence. Having held positions
in the sport, youth and social fields.
Priyanka is a graduate of The University of the West Indies,
Barbados, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Sports Science
with first-class honours. There, she was an elite athlete in
the sport of target archery and represented her home country,
Trinidad and Tobago. Priyanka is currently pursuing graduate
studies at The University of New Brunswick.
She is active in many organizations in the Fredericton
community. She is a Program Leader at the BGC Greater
Fredericton and a staff member at the Opal Family Services'
Kids Club. She recently published her first book,
"Affirmations for Kids."
Monaja Francis
Chief Technology Officer
A software engineer, Monaja's expertise is in back-end
engineering. He graduated from Jomo Kenyatta University of
Agriculture and Technology with a bachelor's degree in
Computer Technology.
His focus on software engineering began in 2017 with
developing websites, software applications, web applications
and programming logic controllers. His work
experience includes Meliora Technologies Limited, where Monaja
supports and develops software products in content billing
or messaging gateway. In addition, he has developed an
automated irrigation system for the effective use of water in
semi-arid areas.
Watson Saw
Chief of Staff
Watson’s experience includes working as a Data Scientist at
the University of New Brunswick and as a graduate research
assistant and university lecturer at Payam Noor University,
Bahar Institute of higher education. She is an R&D Engineer,
and has worked with Ramjan Information Structure, an Iran ICT
based in Iran. In addition, she worked in the People in Motion
Lab at the University of New Brunswick.
His expertise includes implementing analyzing and
visualization techniques to increase data usability for the
Location-Based Service (LBS) and Intelligent Transport Systems
(ITS) department. Currently, she is researching machine
learning and data mining techniques to implement an IoT
platform for data streaming clustering.
Watson has a master's degree in computer science, specializing
in distributed computing, from University Putra Malaysia
(UPM). At UPM, she developed a network routing protocol with a
genetic algorithm. She holds a second Masters degree in
Computer Science in Geomatics Engineering from the University
of New Brunswick.