Leonard Brody Explained

Leonard Brody is a Canadian venture capitalist and author.[1] [2] He has helped in raising money for startup companies, been through a number of internet IPOs and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of more than five companies to date.[3]

In 2004, Brody co-founded, and was CEO of, NowPublic, a citizen journalism online news source.[4] In 2007, the company was named by Time Magazine as one of the best 50 websites in the world[5] and was inducted into the Newseum in Washington DC. Nowpublic was acquired by the Anschutz Corporation in 2009.[6] Currently, Brody sits as the President of the Clarity Digital Group [7] responsible for overseeing one of the largest online news conglomerates in the world including Examiner.com and NowPublic, which, between them, share over 30 million unique visitors a month and over 300,000 contributors.

Brody was the Senior Technology Advisor to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Trade. Currently, he is one of the co-founders of GrowLab, a Vancouver & San Francisco based accelerator.

His work has been featured in such publications as Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and the New York Times . He is co-author of the best selling books, "Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java" and "Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I Learned from a Canadian" both published by John Wiley & Sons.[8] [9]

Brody holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the Harvard Business School.

Brody owns a stake in Coventry City Football Club in the UK and until November 2011 served on the board.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Goodreads, "Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Java to Jurassic Park" . 2011-02-24.
  2. Book: Brody . Leonard . Everything I Needed to Know About Business ... I Learned from a Canadian . Raffa . David . 2009-01-19 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-0-470-15975-0 . en.
  3. http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=7435049&privcapId=27461620&previousCapId=686371&previousTitle=Tallwood%20Venture%20Capital%20 Leonard Brody: Executive Profile & Biography – BusinessWeek
  4. Web site: Acquia Podcast 9: Interview with NowPublic's Mike Meyers | Acquia . 2011-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101115210231/http://acquia.com/community/resources/podcasts/acquia-podcast-9-interview-nowpublics-mike-myers . 2010-11-15 .
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20070712092946/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1633488_1633530_1633569,00.html NowPublic.com – 50 Best Websites 2007 – TIME
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/business/media/02public.html%20 Examiner.com Buys NowPublic, a Citizen-Media Web Site – NYTimes.com
  7. Web site: MediaShift . Examiner.com Execs Push for Quality, Refute 'Content Farm' Tag PBS. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101010024238/http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/10/examinercom-execs-push-for-quality-refute-content-farm-tag280.html. 2010-10-10. PBS.
  8. http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-WILEYCANADA2_SEARCH_RESULT.html?query=leonard%20brody%20 Wiley::Search Results
  9. Web site: Amazon.ca Amazon.ca . www.amazon.ca.

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