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Speaker Bios

Martin Byrne – Yahoo! Search Marketing
Director
Martin Byrne - Yahoo! Search MarketingMartin has spent the last 15 years of his career building online business for a wide variety of Canadian and international organizations. Martin worked for several Canadian internet presence agencies building websites for TD Bank, BMW Canada, Bank of New York, Deutchbank and more. Martin eventually moved from building online businesses' to managing them as Director of The National Post's online news business, Director of media sales operations for Sympatico/MSN Canada and most recently taking on the role as National Director for Yahoo's Canada's Search Marketing operations. Martin also holds an executive MBA from the Rotman School of Business.
Chris Breikss – 6S Marketing
Director, Co-Founder
Chris Breikss - 6S  MarketingChris Breikss has been involved in the Internet marketing industry for over 11 years and was a pioneer in this evolving field. Chris began utilizing the Internet as soon as it became possible to launch a website, and discovered that Internet marketing was an essential component of this new medium. Eleven years, and hundreds of websites later - Chris has not looked back. Chris Breikss is a sought after speaker in the industry and has lectured on Internet marketing at various conferences and venues including The University of British Columbia, E-BC and the International Internet Marketing Association.
Patricia Brusha – A Couple of Chicks
CEO & Founder
Patricia Brusha - A Couple of ChicksPatricia Brusha is the co-founder of "Couple of Chicks.Com" an Internet Marketing, Distribution & Revenue Measurement Company. She has spent 26 years working in the Hospitality Industry in the United States and Canada in the fields of Sales, Marketing, Internet Distribution and Revenue Management where her responsibilities were working with Multi-Branded portfolios along with Independent Hotels & Resorts. Responsibilities have included driving top line revenues through direct sales, accurate forecasting, yielding inventory and marketing initiatives. She has been involved with multiple New Openings, Brand Conversions, Distressed Property Turn- arounds, and Hotel Re-Positioning's.
Bill Barnes – Co-Founder & Executive Vice President
Enquiro Search Solutions, Inc.
Bill Barnes - Enquiro Search Solutions, Inc.Enquiro is one of the world's foremost search-engine marketing companies, and leaders in on-line search behavior research.  Enquiro combines the knowledge they have gained from cutting edge eye-tracking research into Search Engine and website user behavior with their marketing expertise to create, implement and measure extensive search marketing campaigns. 

Mr. Barnes is a Marketing veteran who has been in the marketing, advertising and promotion industry for over 20 years, the last 9 of which have been focused on Search Marketing.  He co-founded Enquiro along with Gord Hotchkiss in 1999.  Mr. Barnes is a featured speaker at events presented by Search Engine Strategies, Ad-Tech, Jupiter Media, SIPA, Forrester Research and Frost and Sullivan, he has also conducted workshops designed for Marketing, Editorial and Public Relations departments. 

At Enquiro Bill has overseen explosive sales growth, in fact, Enquiro was listed on Doilette's 2004 North American Technology Fast 500 and for the past 3 yeas has appeared on Profit Magazine's Top 100.  Bill has extensive experience in setting up and implementing Search Marketing and Research campaigns for such companies as AIG, AT&T, IBM, HP, Lexis/Nexis, Siemens and Grainger, striving to always help companies Succeed in Search.
Maor Daniel – Yahoo! Search Marketing
National Marketing Manager
Maor Daniel - Yahoo! Search MarketingMaor Daniel is National Marketing Manager with Yahoo! Search Marketing Canada responsible for developing the acquisition and retention strategy of small businesses as well as overall Marketing operations for Yahoo! Search Marketing in Canada. Prior to joining Yahoo! Canada Maor worked at Bell Canada as An Associate Director responsible for Customer Strategy & Marketing focusing on the SMB markets. Maor designed, developed and executed multiple campaigns focusing on online and offline acquisition initiatives. Maor also has extensive experience in finance, product development, call centre management and sales with Sprint Canada.
Jon Finnie – Yahoo! Search Marketing
Senior Sales Executive
Jon Finnie is a senior sales executive for Yahoo! search marketing Canada, managing and developing direct clients to ensure their search objectives are achieved. Jon has worked within online for over 8 years previously working for Virgin, Barclaycard and Diageo.