Toronto

With nearly 40 years of experience in marketing and public relations, Anne Kennedy founded Beyond Ink in 1997 to bring the fundamental principles of marketing communications to online media. A search engine marketer for more than 10 years, she is an industry thought leader and sought-after speaker and writer worldwide. Currently, Anne represents professional SEO firms on the Search Engine Strategies (SES) advisory board, an influential group of business professionals from various industries and fields of expertise selected to propel the search industry forward. She also serves on the board of directors for Helium.com, a community of writers providing experience-based knowledge, wisdom, and creativity to publishers and readers. Barely 18 months after launch, Helium's 110,000 writers had published 1 million articles on the site. In 2001, she launched SEOnews.net to foster better understanding of the emerging search marketing platform and the growing market of potential customers.