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.