Austin Hill 
Executive Instigator
CEO of Akoha
Chairman of Standout Jobs
Principal at Brudder Ventures
Austin Hill is a Canadian entrepreneur who has been creating technology startups for 15 years. He was a founder of Zero- Knowledge Systems (now called Radialpoint) and as its President helped the company raise $75 million between 1997 and 2001.
In addition to his time as President with Zero-Knowledge Systems Austin Hill served as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, the CEO of Synomos Inc. (a subsidiary of Zero-Knowledge Systems) and as the Executive-Vice President of Research for Radialpoint (Zero-Knowledge Systems was renamed Radialpoint in 2002). Radialpoint was honored by Deloitte & Touche one of Canada’s fastest growing technology firms in their 2006 Technology Fast 50 award.
In 2002 he was honored as a technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum in Davos (2002) and was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Quebec 2001– Emerging Entrepreneur).
In 1994 He was a founder of the Internet provider Total.Net and built its Canadian network as its Chief Technology Officer. In 1990 while still a teenager he was the founder of security consulting firm Cyberspace Data Security.
He is an advisory board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and a past board member of Information Technology Association of Canada.
He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Atwater Library Digital Literacy project; is a research fellow for Coburn Ventures and through his angel investment firm Brudder Ventures advises a number of Canadian startups and entrepreneurs.
His work on the issues of privacy, governance and the technologies of social change have been profiled on 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC Nightly News and covered in Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and The NY Times.
As a sought after public speaker, Austin Hill has spoken around the world on the issues of social entrepreneurship, civic society and the technologies of social change, and the role of entrepreneurs and corporations as agents of change in our society.
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June 18th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Hope we can add you to the list of your public speaking engagements. Our grads would love to hear an inspiring , motivational speaker like you address them (15 minutes plus Q&A). They are graduates of our Digital Audio Engineering & Production program, Film & Television Production program, and Entertainment Management program.