BOB PICKARD

PRINCIPAL,
SIGNAL LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION INC

Having built award-winning Public Relations businesses based in the United States, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Canada – and with one of the largest social media communities in the PR world – Bob, is a respected leader in the international communications industry. He was listed in 2015 as the only Canadian in PR Week’s ‘Global Power Book’ of the most influential international public relations executives. Bob has more than two decades of experience focused on providing PR counsel and creating communications campaigns for senior business leaders in North America and Asia Pacific. Based at Toronto, he is co-founder and Principal of Signal Leadership Communication Inc. (SLC), Bob is also an expert in global public relations for Western companies communicating in Asia, and Asian companies communicating internationally.

He served Burson-Marsteller as its Asia-Pacific CEO where, for three years until 2013, he led and expanded a 38 office network of owned and affiliate operations across 16 regional markets with more than 1,000 employees.