Michael Ryan

SI3’s chief strategist and operations leader. Michael has over 25 years of executive leadership, advisory and operating experience in both North America and Europe.  He work spans the technology, media, online publishing and business consulting sectors. Prior to starting SI3 he created Scientific Marketing Inc. (SMI), in 2002. He continues to operate SMI, an advisory and implementation firm with a successful track record in digital television (concept, licensing, distribution and production), social branding, business and communication strategy and interim operational management. He was the founder (1996) and co-leader of KPMG Consulting's, now Bearing Point, e-business practice (Digital Strategies) in Canada. The practice specialized in digital brand creation, online marketing and new business incubation. He was for six years beginning in 1990 the Vice President and General Manager of Globe Interactive (now part of CTVglobe Media). He conceived The Globe and Mail New Media Centre and launched many of the successful Web based businesses at globeandmail.com. He was responsible for a host of other innovations in print and electronic media including; Fax Summary, Info Globe Online, ROB TV (BNN), The Globe and Mail - Classroom Edition and PointCast Canada. During this period he also worked as the senior business development executive for The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper and created consumer strategies for The Globe's parent company, Thomson Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut. As the Vice President of Operations and International Sales he worked on a global basis for Computer Associates Inc. (formerly Pansophic Systems Inc., Oakbrook, Illinois) in the application software and system integration industries beginning in 1982. Michael lives in Toronto with his wife Janie and their four children, Caitlin, Siobhan, Ciaran and Nevan.