The first session of the conference will be an in-depth discussion regarding Newfoundland and Labrador’s potential in the Atlantic provincial, national, and international contexts.
Don is the President of Crane Cove Holdings Limited, his family investment firm, and a partner and Director with CABCO Communications, an IT infrastructure company in Canada. He is a co-founder and partner with Total Marketing & Communications (TMC) in Bermuda and its affiliate Narrative Research Bermuda. He currently serves as Senior Counsel to TMC. He is the co-founder and former owner and CEO of Corporate Research Associates (now Narrative Research), which has an on-going and long-term relationship with TMC. Don sold his company to his senior management team in late 2018 and remained Chair of the Board and Senior Counsel of Narrative Research until early 2023. He is a regular columnist with the MacDonald Report, as well as being a frequent media commentator on public affair issues. He is also the Co-host of the Insights Podcast on the Acadia Broadcasting Network and recently co-authored a book with David Campbell, “Toward Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy”. He continues to be active as a consultant in marketing and strategy and was recently appointed by the Federal Government as Chair of the Atlantic Economic Panel.
Alex Bill is a lawyer-turned-journalist, editor of the business and politics publication allNewfoundlandLabrador, cost host of the Honourable & The Hack podcast, and author of Dangerously Close to Contempt, a biography of his father. Alex returned to journalism in 2015 as allNewfoundlandLabrador’s first full-time reporter, and became editor in 2019, leading its newsroom coverage of the business, economic and political issues shaping the province.
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