Mark Ruthenberg, B.Comm. (Hon)

Manager Online Communications

Mr. Ruthenberg’s background combines website design, online visibility, and public company reporting and disclosure.  He has more than 20 years’ experience building a wide variety of websites including over 10 years with WordPress sites and helping clients make smart changes without overcomplicating things.

As President of TransCanada FoundLocally Inc., he gained experience in building and running FoundLocally (a community portal covering 30 communities across Canada) which grew through organic search (“word of mouse”) and word of mouth. More recently, with TransCanadaHighway.com, he built a high-traffic high reputation website with high volume social media (measured in millions of interactions per month) with zero ad-spend.

His unique expertise in website design, financial reporting, and investor reporting compliance as a former Chartered Accountant, as a startup founder, and as CEO / executive of a public company. This combination gave insight into the challenges of public company websites and the importance of regular & transparent reporting to investors.

He is also a Vice President of Career Transition at Advantage Tech Inc., where he provides the company’s Career Transition Counselling clients with LinkedIn and Online Job Search expertise. Advantage Tech has served Calgary since 1980, Calgary’s longest-serving company in this field.

Earlier, he spent 8 years in the computer training field and wrote over 300 computer books, so I’m used to explaining technical ideas clearly and working with a wide range of people. Before then, he has his own Chartered Accounting practice (the Canadian equivalent of CPA) and focused his practice on tax-based technology and R&D finance.