Canadian-based broadcast reporter and producer turned investor, media entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
Jeremy Szafron has been in the public eye since 2005, starting his career as the on-air Entertainment Reporter for CTV, in Montreal.
He remained in broadcast journalism for more than a decade, eventually becoming a regular live TV reporter, commentator, and personality for Bell Media, Canada’s leading content creation company across television, radio, and digital. Jeremy reported on and interviewed celebrities such as Justin Bieber, the Kardashians, and Madonna, as well as political figures such as Al Gore and Justin Trudeau.
In 2007, Szafron became an on-air Business Reporter and Analyst for Bell Media, where he made regular appearances on BBN Bloomberg as well as on multiple Canadian television and radio stations.
After his time at Bell Media, where he was featured as a business reporter on regular National CTV News programs, Jeremy became the Host and Producer of Spotlight, an online current affairs show from PressReader. The show reached more than 30 million individual subscribers across multiple global markets.
In 2018, Jeremy started his first media venture, The Green Scene Podcast, a top global cannabis podcast that discussed the burgeoning industry from an independent journalist’s perspective. The podcast, which was available on all podcast streaming platforms, grew to more than 350,000 subscribers with 400,000 weekly downloads.
The Green Scene Podcast evolved into Initiate Research, an investor-focused media company launched in 2020 that reports on exclusive deal-flow and insights into small-cap Canadian companies on the Canadian Securities Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange.
Jeremy was an advisor to multiple small-cap companies on public financing and corporate governance, investor relations, and marketing, and he has hosted multiple TedX events throughout Canada.
Currently serving as the Anchor at Kitco News, Jeremy brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of journalistic excellence to this role. His appointment is set to enhance the narrative in finance and commodity news, offering unparalleled insights and engaging content to a global audience. He graduated from Concordia University in Montreal with a degree in Journalism and currently lives in Vancouver with his partner Mackenzie and their two pups.