Sammy Ijaz

Sammy Ijaz (born February 22 1993) is a Canadian web-show host and executive producer. He is the creator of The Red Couch a talk show online,                connecting to people through YouTube, and via other social media sites. The Red Couch's mission is to become the leading entertainment source for all university, college and high school students in the Greater Toronto Area with the slogan of Creating Community. Sammy started off directing short films high school; Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute. Now attending the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, he creates an environment to question people of many diverse cultures about daily topics in life. Starting in his sophomore year (11 grade) he has now advanced to many ratings on YouTube and has questions that are comedic, entertaining, and very interesting to the teenage and adult lifestyle.

Early life
Ijaz was born in Toronto, Canada. His family settles in Toronto. He is of Pakistani decent. He graduated from Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute in 2011. He is now attending his 2nd year studying Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management, at Ryerson University. Majoring in Real Estate, he is also the Executive Producer and Host of The Red Couch, an independent organization located in the Toronto/downtown area.

Early screen work
Ijaz started his internet career when he published the video High School Criminal - Nokia Short Film Concept, in 2011. 2 years later he started The Red Couch. He is currently the President/Executive Producer/ Host at The Red Couch. Sammy creates a working environment that allows creative people and projects to flourish and succeed.

Early work
Sammy was a sales associate to ALDO Group. He played an active role in meeting daily sales target through recommendations based on understanding customer needs, ensured daily readiness of sales floor and the execution of on-site promotional activities, and was a confident team player with a sense of responsibility, and able to handle multiple customers requests on a timely and skillful manner. He was also a marketing intern at First Accounting, LLP. At First Accounting, he prepared client satisfaction surveys based on marketing strategies and patterns laid out by upper management, planned client development activities and special events based on the client satisfaction surveys, and he designed a social media system to monitor and analyze the results of internet marketing (Facebook).