2008 Conference Speakers

Sunni Boot	Cathy Collier	Ivan Fecan	Bruce Claassen
David Kenny	Tom Arrix	Nick Barbuto	Dr Hunter Madsen
Alan Cross	Chris Staples	Doug Checkeris	Rob Guenette
Ted Boyd	Jonah Bloom	Michael Carter	Nadir Mohamed
Tom Clark	Judy Davey	Marc Saltzman	Dr. Jeff Cole
Judy John	Anita Sehgal

Select a name from the list above

Bruce Claassen

Bruce Claassen began his career in Montreal, working first at The Montreal Star prior to joining the agency media ranks. In 1990, he moved to Toronto to help launch McKim Advertising's stand-alone media arm, the McKim Media Group.

In 1992, Bruce was recruited to head the newly-merged media independent, Genesis Media Inc., as its first president, eventually buying out the original owners. During his tenure at Genesis, Bruce had grown the company to become the largest wholly Canadian-owned media management company in Canada.

In October 2007, Bruce merged Genesis with the Aegis Media Group network Vizeum, to become Genesis-Vizeum, part of Aegis Media Canada. Bruce currently acts as both CEO of Genesis-Vizeum and Chairman of Aegis Media Canada.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA from Concordia. He is actively involved within the industry, and is currently on the Board of the ICA, the OSO, NADbank and ABC, and is President of CMDC.