Ron Moore

Marketing communications innovator, playwright and theatre producer Ron Moore is a native of Glasgow, Scotland who has lived in Canada for longer than he can remember. Fortunately, this is not longer than his mother can remember.

In 1972, Ron began his communications career as a boy radio producer with CFPL in London. Despite a conspicuous deficiency of talent he managed to make it on-air as a DJ until he found his true calling (deciding what others should hear) as the station's Music Director. In 1976, he founded Mariposa Communications as a sales-promotion company serving packaged-goods clients. Over the next two decades, he built Mariposa into one of the most highly regarded corporate communications firms in Canada, with clients in the financial services, pharmaceutical and packaged-goods sectors. Under Ron's leadership, the firm added new capabilities in corporate television, design and direct-response advertising to meet its clients' evolving needs.

After selling his remaining interest in Mariposa in 1995, he founded the digital publishing house Eclecticollections and published the 10,000 image, All Our Yesterdaysô royalty-free, stock-image library. In 1996, after producing an unsatisfactory retirement, he founded Sonar Group. Today the company has a staff of 50 providing Canadian and international clients such as CIBC, Investors Group, GSK, Sappi Fine Papers, Imperial Tobacco, McCain Foods, Coors, Molson and EstÈe Lauder with unique solutions in Enterprise Motivation and Consumer Marketing.

Ron is one of the most experienced and accomplished writers for business in Canada with a wide-ranging knowledge of business issues across many sectors. As a business television producer and director, he has won numerous awards, including a Silver Screen Award from the U.S. Industrial Film & Video Festival, and both a Golden Maple and Silver Birch from the ITVA in Canada.

Ron is also one of Canada's most successful theatre producers. His 1986-88 production of Run For Your Wife remains the longest running play in the history of Canadian theatre. His 1986 production of the off-Broadway musical 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down was a hit with the Toronto critics but since this is a small demographic who generally don't pay for their tickets, the play closed early. It remains however, a creative career highlight. England's Redgrave Theatre produced his own play A Step In Time in 1994 and the less said about that experience the better. In the spring of 1999, he produced Three Days of Rain by the celebrated American playwright, Richard Greenberg, at The Canadian Stage Company. Ever a glutton for punishment, Ron is currently collaborating with an English production company on a musical play based on the life of Anthony Newley.

Since 1992 Ron has been a board member of the Toronto International Film Festival Group where he created and chairs the Marketing Advisory Committee. He is also the current chair of The McLuhan International Festival of the Future. Ron has also served on the board of the Toronto Theatre Alliance, on fund-raising and organizing committees of The Writers' Development Trust, The McMichael Canadian Gallery and the Centre for Research in Women's Health. Ron is very proud of his talented, DJ son, Eric. In his spare timeÖÖwell he really doesn't have any to speak of.