Leonard Brody heading East

Leonard Brody is Co-Founder and CEO of NowPublic. NowPublic is one of the pioneers in citizen-generated news and is quickly becoming one of the largest news agencies in the world, with more than 130,000 contributing reporters in140 countries and 4,500 cities. In the last year, The Guardian in London ranked NowPublic as one of the top five news sites in the world and Time Magazine named it as one of the top 50 websites of the year. At Onvia (where he was part of the initial executive) the company was voted Canada's number one start-up in 2000 and subsequently closed a$240 million IPO (A company's first sale of stock to the public) on NASDAQ. He is also an advisor to several companies including, the Associated Press, RedHerring and Sonic Foundry. Leonard is currently a Senior Advisor to the Canadian Minister of International Trade and a Director of Canada's largest technology association, CATA. The Diana and Charles Tisdall Lecture in Communications aim to demonstrate the societal power and value of public relations/communications thinking.