power breakfast
Take in an inspiring presentation by business and technology visionary Leonard Brody who has been called “a controversial leader of the new world order.” He is a highly respected entrepreneur, venture capitalist, bestselling author and a two time Emmy nominated media visionary who has been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history. Leonard will share with us how technology has fundamentally changed us as a society and what these changes mean to our bottom line.
Leonard currently sits as the President of the Clarity Digital Group, a company responsible for overseeing one of the largest online news conglomerates in the world including Examiner.com and NowPublic.com, which between them share over 20 million unique visitors a month and host over 200,000 contributors. In 2004, NowPublic was named one of the top 50 websites in the world by Time magazine and inducted into the Newseum in Washington, D. C.
Leonard also acts as an advisor to venture capital funds in the US, Europe and Asia, and has also advised several companies including, the Associated Press, Alliance Atlantis, and MTV Enterprise. Leonard has also served as a Senior Advisor to the Canadian Ministry of International Trade, and as a Director of Canada’s largest technology association, CATA.
A highly sought-after public speaker, Leonard has lectured at institutions such as Stanford, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai and the United Nations. His insight has been requested by companies such as Forbes, and Warner Music, as well as to the governments of countries such as India,Israel, Ireland and South Africa. Leonard’s work has been featured in such publications as Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC and The New York Times, and he is the co-author of the bestselling books, Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java and Everything I Needed to Know About Business…I Learned from a Canadian.
Leonard holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queens University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the Harvard Business School.