Business Development, Digg
Brian is an 18-year-old BCom graduate from the Sauder School of Business. He first captured attention with the world's first automated categorized Twitter discovery tool: Followformation.com . Followformation was featured in Mashable, Fast Company.com , The Examiner, The Georgia Straight, and most recently on the popular internet television channels Building43.com and Intruders.tv. Followformation has been touted as one of the best Twitter user discovery tools, and recently crossed its 160,000th follow milestone.
Brian has also worked with brands like 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and Best Buy Canada in their social media strategies and has spoken at events like the Vancouver Internet Marketing Conference and the 140 Twitter Conference in Los Angeles.
Since graduating, Brian has travelled to over ten international cities to meet with world-class VC's and entrepreneurs, forging his own path through the social media space through restless learning and growing. Along with his travels came an opportunity to work at one of the tech world's hottest start ups, Digg.com . Brian is now in San Francisco, developing key partnerships for Digg.
Brian is also the founder of the mobile application development company Rocketkick, creating its flagship iPhone application due for launch in January of 2010.
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