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Michael Tippett founded The Webpool Syndicate, one of Canada’s first internet companies, in 1995. He has worked internationally. Recently he lived in New York and served as General Manager at Register.com (one of Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 50). In 2005 Tippett founded NowPublic, a commercial descendent of BlueHereNow.com, which in 2002 became the first to combine cameraphone photographs with breaking news events.

He has also contributed to digital culture in fields such as media arts. In 2004 he collaborated with Kate Armstrong to produce Grafik Dynamo, a net art piece that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. Grafik Dynamo was a commission of Turbulence, made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. He studied philosophy at Queen’s University.

Michael is a member of the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism Advisory Board and is on the Board of CABINET, a Vancouver-based arts organization.

Leonard is one of Canada’s most respected young technology entrepreneurs. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of four companies to date. Much critical acclaim has followed him in his endeavours. At Onvia Canada (where he was part of the initial executive) the company was voted Canada’s number one startup in 2000 and subsequently closed a $240 Million NASDAQ IPO. At Marqui (where he was Chief Advisor) the startup was rated as the best new internet company in the country in 2003.

Michael Meyers has extensive experience in web development with successful startups as well as Fortune 100 organizations. He recently served as Director of Web Development at Register.com, where he was responsible for managing web development for the company’s five business units.