Mark H. LaVigne established Hunter LaVigne Communications Inc. in 1997, an Aurora-based creative communications consultancy which specializes in the organizational/news interface, including: media relations; media training; media events planning and management.

Mark knows both sides of the “media fence” well. For five years, he was a national on-air radio journalist and for the last 19 years, he has worked in public relations agencies.

He is an accredited member (APR) of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS), is a Past-President of CPRS (Toronto) and has served on the national CPRS board for six years, including as an elected Vice President/Secretary. His book on proactive media relations, Making Ink and Airtime, was published in October, 2008, a compilation of newsletter articles he published in the past seven years.

David Milliken is nudging 40 years in the communications industry, including 12 years as a reporter and senior editor at major Canadian daily newspapers.

A journalism graduate from Algonquin College in Ottawa, he spent four years as news editor of the Renfrew (Ontario) Mercury-Advance. For seven years, he served as News Editor, Night Editor and Senior Assistant City Editor of The Ottawa Journal, before joining Toronto Sun Publishing to help launch the Calgary Sun in 1980 where he served as Assistant Managing Editor (Sunday Editor.)

In 1982, he joined Canada NewsWire (CNW Group), the nation's foremost news release communications network. For 25 years, David led the sales team, responsible for all revenue generation from its seven bureaus across Canada, as well as the company’s Multi-Media and redistribution divisions.

In August, 2000, he was elected to the Board of Directors of CNW. David is also a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Canadian Journalism Foundation, and he co-chairs the management committee of J-Source, the Canadian Journalism Project.