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Leonard Brody is a Canadian
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ist and
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. He has helped in raising money for
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, 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. In 2004, Brody co-founded, and was CEO of,
NowPublic NowPublic was a user-generated social news website. The company was based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was founded by Michael Tippett, Leonard Brody and Michael E. Meyers in 2005. On Sept. 2, 2009 the company was acquired by Clari ...
, a
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online news source. In 2007, the company was named by
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as one of the best 50 websites in the world and was inducted into the
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in Washington DC. Nowpublic was acquired by the Anschutz Corporation in 2009. Currently, Brody sits as the President of the Clarity Digital Group 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 &
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. 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
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, the
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, the
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and the
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. 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
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. Brody holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University, a law degree from
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and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the
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. Brody owns a stake in Coventry City Football Club in the UK and until November 2011 served on the board.


Bibliography

* ''Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java''. (with Ken Grant, Matt Holland (writer) - Toronto: Wiley, 2002. * ''Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I learned from a Canadian''. Toronto: Wiley, 2005. (with David Raffa)


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