Toronto

Marketing Magazine dubbed him the "rock star of digital marketing," and in 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on blog marketing in the world. Mitch Joel is president of Twist Image, an award-winning digital marketing agency. He is a board member for the Canadian Marketing Association and a former board member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada. His first book, Six Pixels of Separation, will be released in the fall of 2009 on Grand Central Publishing (formerly Time Warner Books), and his newspaper business column, "New Business — Six Pixels of Separation," runs bi-monthly in both The Montreal Gazette and Vancouver Sun.