Richard Sharp is a digital media strategist and producer, specializing in designing and deploying community, content, and marketing campaigns over web and mobile.

A thriving digital entrepreneur since 1989, Richard has designed and deployed multiple online communities, live interactive events, interactive products and services, mobile applications, and hybrid television/webcasts for organizations such as the Government of Canada, MuchMusic, Scholastic, CBS Sports, Discovery Channel and Rogers Media.

Richard was a Founding Executive Producer of Canada’s first Digital Media Awards (1994), Founding Director of Canada’s first Interactive Association (1992) and Founding New Media Director on the Board of the Ontario Media Development Corporation (O.M.D.C.).

Recently Richard was the Co-Director of Social Media Outreach, Obama Inauguration Green Ball, Washington DC, January 19th 2009 (Al Gore presiding)

15 years in the Marketing/Advertising world developing and producing the digital things that clients want.

In agencies such as: Publicis, Mclaren Mcann, Dashboard, Cossette, Leo Burnet/Arc Worldwide and Bimm Comm.

Working with clients like: Unilever, Axe, Vaseline Skin Care, Keek, Wrigley's, Excel Extreme, Juicy Fruit, FruitLoops, Frosted Mini Wheats, Trix, Lucky Charms, Tourism Toronto, Mercedes, Microsoft, GM, Audi, VW, CornPops, Universtiy Of Toronto, Rogers Sportism, Sunlight, Frosted Flakes, Bank of Montreal, Airmiles, McDonalds, Bell Canada, Motorola, Dell, Saturn Saab, Glaxo Smith Kline...

David has enjoyed 25+ years of international experience as a media educator, venture catalyst, investor, board member and/or advisor to over 35 startup, early stage, multi-national and government entities; as a global business and economic development executive, consultant, and public speaker; as an award-winning executive producer of multiple commercial digital media and mobile products and content for a number of the major record labels (EMI, Capital, MCA, Polydor); and as a philanthropist. Over the years he has co-raised and deployed capital for over 20 ventures, and consulted to advised, conducted due diligence upon, other otherwise support multiple hundreds of ventures, with telecom/cable, digital media, digital education, renewable energy and key food commodities trading the current balance of his international portfolio.

David is also an author of nearly 50 articles and reports on the evolution of the digital domain, mobile learning, interactive education and economic development for trade publications, professional books and institutional clients such as The Ontario Ministry of Culture, NTT-Docomo, Microsoft Press and Carnagie-Mellon University; and is a speaker who has given more than 60 forward-looking keynote and other speeches throughout the world for clients or sponsors such as the EU; the King of Sweden; the Swedish, Danish, Canadian and French Governments; the National Institute of Film in Denmark; TV Globo (Brazil); Viacom; Mercedes/Siebold and numerous other economic development agencies, universities, corporations and educational associations (e.g., MLearn, WMTE Mobile and Wirelesss Learning, etc.)

David earned a Masters in Education in 1990 from Harvard University with a focus on optimizing economic and career development and “human capital” via entertainment interfaces/informal media, while conducting simultaneous class-work at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Business School. In 1984 he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the University of California at Berkeley.