Rick Anderson

Who is Rick Anderson?

Rick Anderson is President and CEO of Zip.ca.

Rick has been directing projects, campaigns and companies, and

providing strategic advice and counsel to clients, for over 20 years.

He has served as an adviser to the Momentous.ca Group of Companies for

five years, and has directed Zip.ca's potential and opportunity since

its launch in early 2004. Rick serves on several corporate and

community boards of directors, including as president of his own

advisory company ASCI Anderson Strategic Consulting Inc, as a director

of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, as director and

chairman of publicly-traded Nuvo Network Management Inc., and as a

director of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation. Prior to

launching his own executive consultancy, Rick spent fifteen in years in

senior executive positions with Hill Knowlton, in Canada, the

United States and Europe, advising major corporations, governments and

organizations around the world, and directing HK's advanced

technology practice. Rick has been actively involved in numerous

Canadian political campaigns and worked on Parliament Hill. He is

director of the Fireweed Democracy Project, a member of the boards of

the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and Fair Vote Canada, and a

frequent public affairs commentator in national media such as CBC TV

and CBC Newsworld, CBC Radio, the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen and

the Edmonton Journal.