Steve Cunningham
CEO, Polar Unlimited

Steve CunninghamSteve Cunningham is the President and CEO of Polar Unlimited based out of Toronto, ON. Polar specializes in social media and digital marketing strategy.

Before taking the reigns at Polar, Steve was an economist, mathematician and lawyer. What does that have to do with digital communications and innovation? Everything, if you consider that his background and training has equipped him with a unique view of the world and the ability to solve complex issues in elegant and simple ways.

Polar’s clients include some of the most progressive thinkers around, in the healthcare, hi-tech, financial services and environmental industries. Clients and colleges confirm that Steve has a unique ability to solve challenging business issues in creative and innovative ways.

Steve is very active in the digital marketing space. He writes for Mashable, the largest online publication dealing with social media with about 4.5 million readers a month. He also writes “The Social Business Blog” on Bizmore and is a community expert there on digital marketing and social media issues. He writes a regular column for the National Post reviewing latest business books. Lastly, Steve produces business book summaries on www.polarunlimited.com, where he summarizes the latest and greatest of the billion (or so) business books that bombard us every year. Tangled somewhere in that forest of pages are at least a few business-changing ideas that Steve distills down to their essence. Proving that innovative content trumps catchy slogans, thousands of people from every corner of the globe tune in every week.

As an active member of his community, Steve sits on the board of the Halton Children’s Aid Foundation, does charitable work for Kids’ Health Links Foundation (an organization founded by TEC Chair Basile Papaevangelou), and coaches elite youth hockey in Burlington.


 
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