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Bio

Conference organizers sometimes need a bio and photo and I'm always embarrassingly slow to send them through. So, I thought I'd put this up here. I'll never be late again!

Bio for Pema Hegan (updated April, 2008)

Pema is a prolific entrepreneur who has helped launch everything from a Canadian media company to the UK's first Indy Car racetrack.

Pema's most recent challenge was co-founding GigPark, a Toronto based web startup that let members find local businesses through recommendations from friends. In August 2009, GigPark was acquired by Canpages, the largest independent local search and directories publisher in Canada.

Before GigPark, Pema was the founding editor-in-chief of Dose Magazine, taking the Canadian print and online media brand from a standing start to more than 330,000 daily readers. Prior to Dose, Pema was an Account Director at the award-winning Canadian advertising agency, Rethink, and worked at Michealides & Bednash (London), creating content and marketing concepts for some of the UK’s most innovative media brands including Channel 4, XFM Radio and the BBC. Originally from New Zealand, Pema began his career at Young & Rubicam Advertising before starting his own media company, Sonar.

Pema is a compulsive traveler, a part time surfer and has a (sometimes) unhealthy obsession with modern architecture. Fun fact: Pema is Tibetan name. It was given to him by a monk in northern India where his parents lived for 9 years.