Impact National Conference 2010

President and CMO of Airborne Mobile

Former CEO of Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival

www.andynulman.com

Impact is proud to present Andy Nulman as our Opening Keynote for the 2009 National Conference.  While young in spirit and snappy in dress, Andy Nulman has been creating and leading major media projects for over three decades.  Prior to his role at Airborne, Andy was best known for his 15-year tenure as CEO of Montreal’s renowned Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, the world's first and largest comedy event.  

Andy is the President and CMO of Airborne Mobile, a company celebrated as a pioneer in the industry of mobile media and marketing. In 1999, Andy co-founded Airborne with Garner Bornstein, and has since provided the company with the insight and creativity necessary to successfully strengthen brands like FHM, Family Guy and the NFL through the creation of innovative mobile content and applications. In 2006, Airborne was honored as North America’s 4th-Fastest Growing Tech Company in Deloitte’s Fast 500 ranking.

Prior to Airborne, Andy was best known for his 15-year tenure as CEO of Montreal’s renowned Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, the world's first and largest comedy event.  From 1985 until 1999, he transformed it from a two-day show to a month-long cultural happening, attracting over 2 million visitors per year to see talent the likes of Jay Leno, Drew Carey, Jim Carrey, John Cleese, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ray Romano and Adam Sandler, and created/ Executive Produced over 150 Festival TV shows, in a variety of languages, all over the world.

An acclaimed and thought-provoking public speaker/showman, motivating and challenging Fortune 500 companies the likes of GM, Eveready/Energizer, 3M and Wal-Mart, Andy has also written three books, “How To Do The Impossible,” “I Almost Killed George Burns” and his most recent “Pow! Right Between The Eyes!  Profiting From The Element of Surprise.”

Other accomplishments include being named one of the “Top 40 Under 40” business leaders by the Financial Post in 1997, being voted one of the Top 100 Montrealers of the 20th Century by the Montreal Gazette in 2000, and being honored as a distinguished recipient of the McGill Management Achievement Award in 2004.

In his spare time, Andy is also an oft-published author, inventive stage director, half-decent snowboarder, newbie hockey defenceman, rock singer and prolific blogger on the art of Surprise (check him out at www.andynulman.com). 
Married with two grown children and two rambunctious dogs, his major disappointment is that he has only one life to live…but he’s working on a solution.