Jude Anasta

Jude Anasta is an experienced product manager fluent in 5 languages and an entrepreneur who is highly innovative with a strong emphasis on product vision, execution, leadership, sales, business development, and management.

Jude was born in Haiti and raised in Catskill, NY. It was there at the young age of 15 when Jude experienced his first taste of entrepreneurship by co-founding his first company, The Catskill DJ Service, which aimed to provide affordable DJ services for school dances, proms, retirement and birthday parties.

After graduating high school, Jude began his pursuit of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with a concentration in International Business and a Minor in French from SUNY Cortland. In 2018, Jude obtained a Masters in Business Administration from Smartly Business School and completed the Y-Combinator Startup School program.

Jude’s work has received both national and international attention and has been featured in Mashable, Brit + Co, Wired Italy, Ypulse, Hola Telcel. His work has also been featured in an advertisement by Telcel, a Mexican wireless telecommunications company, and Digicel, a mobile phone network provider operating in 33 markets across the Caribbean, Central America, and Oceania regions.

Jude has also appeared in BFM TV, a French TV News Station filmed at the Nasdaq and dot NYC Show hosted by Jeff Jarvis and has partnered with Tumblr for a joint marketing campaign.

In 2017, Jude Anasta was named the “The 2017 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award recipient” by his Alma Mater at SUNY Cortland. Jude believes strongly in giving back to the community by volunteering at JA Finance Park, America Scores and has been invited to present at Baruch College, New York City College of Technology, SUNY Cortland and Catskill High School.

In his free time, Jude enjoys reading, traveling, dancing salsa and performing magic tricks. He is currently a voting board member at the Flatbush BID and is looking forward to mastering SQL and learning Java.