#CMPTO The Three Rs

It's time to go back to school with a look at how different organizations are taking definitions of Reading, Writing and Arithmetic to geeky new heights. Class is now in session, gang, and here are your professors!

Robert Wheaton - VP Strategic Digital Business Development at Random House of Canada (http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt) presents Reading.

Amy Martin - Product Marketing Manager at Wattpad (http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wattpad.com%2F&ei=U587UJTHIsTaywHC9IDQAw&usg=AFQjCNH4sVn-8KTCVRauVevtnlgWuSuN2w) presents Writing.

Nick Eduoard - EVP Business Development & Marketing at BuzzData (http://buzzdata.com/) presents Arithmetic.

Speaker Bios

Nick Eduoard

Nick is EVP Business Development & Marketing at (and also an angel investor in) BuzzData, a Toronto-based start-up changing the way that people share, publish and tell stories with data.

Nick spends a considerable amount of time talking with BuzzData's actual and potential customers - companies and organizations looking to better share data (both openly with the world and internally within teams and across organizations) so that data-driven (better!) decisions get made. He recently led the Economist Intelligence Unit and BuzzData's global Best City Contest crowdsourcing project.

Prior to BuzzData, Nick established and ran the North American operations of Nomad Digital, a UK-based telecom company, delivering on-train Wi-Fi solutions for Amtrak, VIA Rail and others. He has previously co-founded the UK’s leading site management company for emerging wireless technologies and spent 5 years as a strategy consultant principally with Arthur D. Little. He thinks that his data geekery is balanced by having an MA in Classics and Philosophy from Trinity College, Oxford, but deep down he knows better.

Amy Martin

Amy Martin is the Product Marketing Manager at Wattpad.

Before joining Wattpad, Amy worked overseas as a digital consultant at a startup communications agency in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar.

Early in her career, way before YouTube came around; Amy was part of a team exploring online collaborative video production with the Canadian Broadcasting Company. She was an intern at MSNBC.com and has consulted for various tech startups on communications and business planning.

Amy holds a master's degree in Media Ecology: Studies in Culture and Communication from New York University.

Robert Wheaton

Robert Wheaton has been with Random House of Canada since October 2011 and heads the digital team as VP, Director Strategic Digital Business Development. Among other responsibilities, Random House of Canada's digital team manages e-book sales and facilitates the company's digital publishing initiatives. In August 2012 the team launched Hazlitt (http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt), a digital habitat supporting an online magazine and a line of e-book originals (Hazlitt Originals).

Robert has over twelve years of experience designing online products in the content industry. As a web developer, Robert provided website solutions for cultural organizations and institutions (art galleries; museums; magazines) and consulted for educational institutions. From 2005-2011, in addition to freelance web development work, Robert held positions at Indigo Books & Music, including as Director of Inventory Management, managing a team of twenty data analysts to oversee the real-time inventory requirements and distribution for all books at all Chapters, Indigo, and Coles stores.

Robert's professional interests include digital content development, business strategy, organizational structure, and how businesses can derive the best results from teams -- and provide the most engaging work environments -- at times of complex structural change. Robert is also a published writer and brings an author's perspective to his professional responsibilities.