ANNUAL REPORT
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery is the CEO Achilles Media/ First Maximilian
Associates. Robert Montgomery is an investor, adviser and entrepreneur
focused on the digital media and information technology industries.
Robert owns Achilles Media in Toronto, a business-to-business media
company that produces some of the world's leading media and investment
events including the Banff World Television Festival, nextMEDIA,
History Makers and the Canadian Innovation Exchange where Robert acts
as Co-Chair. From 2000 to 2004, Robert was Co-Founder and Partner in
Achilles Partners LLC, an investment, advisory and research firm that
focused on the media, communications and technology industries.
Previously, Robert has been an executive and adviser for media,
communications and technology companies and the investment community
for many years. His work has generally been in the areas of operations,
strategy, financing and development; market, financial and public
policy analysis; and fairness opinions and valuations. Until 2000,
Robert was President, Americas and a member of the management board at
the Fantastic Corporation in San Francisco, a broadband software
provider where Robert was instrumental in the company's successful IPO.
During this time Robert was also Non-Executive Chairman of Media
Content plc, a UK-based media rights company which he co-founded and
took public on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. Before this,
Robert was Managing Director at Kagan World Media in London, a media
and communications research and consulting company where he was
responsible for the firm's European and Asia Pacific operations. Before
this, Robert co-founded Digital Media International, an events and
publishing company focused on the digital media markets in Europe and
Asia. Prior to this, Robert ran international financial and technology
publications for Euromoney plc, and what is now Informa plc, in London.
Robert has served on several boards and is very active in the
community.
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