Speaker Profiles

Gillian Shaw is a journalist with The Vancouver Sun and Canwest. She writes on Digital Life for the Sun and the Canwest news service, focusing on technology issues and trends online and off that affect our life, whether at work or play. Gillian can be found online at www.vancouversun.com/digitallife or through some of her social media links listed at krunchd.com/gillianshaw.

Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth; Jeff was born with a tray in his hand. As son of perennial restaurateur Bus Fuller and a younger brother among a set of aggressive and equally food-service-bred brothers, Jeff has waitered, washed dishes, flipped burgers and swept the parking lot on his way to carving out his own spot as an innovator and leader on the North American restaurant scene.

John Johnstone is a graduate of Saint Mary's University, Bachelor of Commerce, Corporate Finance and has 10 years of experience with the Federal Government with four departments. During this time John has gain both ground level experience as a Coast Guard Officer and regulatory and policy development experience with Transport Canada.

Mike Agerbo is today's digital living and business expert. As the digital visionary, he can be heard nationally on Corus Radio's GetConnected program every week. He is also the star of GetConnected TV seen across Canada on BNN - Business News Network and G4Tech TV. You can also catch his regular news appearances on Global TV, City TV, and CTV.

A 20 year veteran in online local search and directories publishing, Vincent founded Canpages in 2005 where his vision has become the driving force behind Canpages.ca's unprecedented growth as the fastest growing Canadian website, as well as four major acquisitions including Toronto-based social networking site GigPark.

Rich has a twenty years of experience in Public Relations, Marketing & Sales. He was the youngest ever spokesperson for the BC Government handling media relations and news release/speech writing for a major department.

Rick Spence is a Toronto-based business writer, speaker and consultant dedicated to helping businesses grow, especially in tough times. His expertise includes marketing, finance, best management practices, startups and green business.

Robert Ciccone is a business advisor, marketing consultant and trainer and is the founder and President of Success Unlimited Sales and Marketing Group Inc. Rob brings a 16 - year proven track record to the clients with whom he works and to the programs he delivers, with extensive experience in front-line sales, management, marketing and business-building.

Shane Gibson is an International Speaker, author and Global Entrepreneur who has addressed several thousand people over the past sixteen years on stages in North America, Southern Africa and South America. He is quickly becoming known as one of Canada's foremost speakers on the topic of social media and sales performance.

With 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, Shane currently manages special segments and distribution activities for Business Banking at TD. This includes overseeing a multi-million dollar marketing budget as well as designing and executing on programs to help Business Owners be more successful.

Vanessa is an Associate Marketing Manager at Yahoo! Search Marketing. At Yahoo! Canada since April 2007, she manages Yahoo!'s Search Marketing's English and French online platforms. Vanessa holds both an Honours Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Science and a Master of Arts from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.