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Nathan Rudyk, President  & CEO

Nathan Rudyk is an award-winning marketer, author, teacher, and broadcaster as well as the founder CEO of market2world communications.

He is passionate about client success, has worked for marcom agencies across Canada, and has led winning campaigns for many emerging companies as well as multi-nationals and government departments such as Microsoft, EDS, IBM, Industry Canada, The Royal Canadian Mint, Nortel, and Xerox.

In November, 2005, Nathan founded and is co-host of the OCRIRadio.com podcast, a social media channel with the mandate of “podcasting Ottawa’s tech energy to the world”.

From 2001-2005 he served as Vice-President of Marketing for business analytics and reporting software company Databeacon Inc. (acquired by Cognos, Inc. in 2005), then started market2world.

From 2002-2004 he was a regular commentator on CTV's TechNow program. From 2000-2002 Nathan was an Internet columnist for Ottawa's CBC Radio show Ottawa Morning.

From 1996-2000, he was co-founder and President of Web services agency digIT Interactive (acquired by Quebecor's nurun inc. in 2000). After digIT was acquired, Nathan became Vice-President, Retail Solutions for nurun, a multi-national Web services firm.

Nathan has taught technology marketing in the professional programme of Algonquin College from 1998-2000, lectured at the University of Ottawa in 2006, and received a SCOAP Fellowship Award in 2000 in recognition of his efforts toward the achievement of the aims and values of I.T. in government in the National Capital Region.

In 2001 he was awarded a Top 40 Under 40 award by the Ottawa Business Journal. He served for two years on the Board of the Information and Technology Communications Council (2001-2003), and for three years on the Advisory Committee of OCRI's Zone5ive association for high tech marketers (2000-2003). Nathan is frequently called on as a panelist and speaker at Web 2.0, Internet marketing and e-business conferences in North America and Europe.

As a writer and editor, Nathan started freelancing in the mid-80s for publications including ComputerWorld and The Globe and Mail, served in editorial positions for magazines such as Profit and Country Estate in the early 90s, and in 1996 wrote the book "Free Stuff from the Internet: Canadian Edition", published by Coriolis Group Books.

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