Nathon Gunn

Gunn served three terms as a Director of the Board of the Ontario Media Development Corporation (now Ontario Creates) under Ministry of Tourism and Culture (Ontario) and on the Audit Committee.[13]

In 1996, Gunn founded Bitcasters,[14] an early multimedia production studio that had offices in Toronto and New York.

Bitcasters created one of the first tools for uploading and editing video to the web and was a pioneer in the user generated content space.[15]

From 2001 to 2004 Gunn also spearheaded the Internet and Digital campaign initiatives for Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal Party leadership bid and subsequently acted as head of digital during Martin's successful election as Prime Minister. This was followed by innovative technology work for the PMO.[16]

In 2009, Gunn founded Social Game Universe in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with the stated goal of creating a network of interconnected small casual games such as Hollywood Tycoon[17] that in aggregate would form a digital universe of players interacting while playing diverse games.[18][19]

From 2014 to 2016 Gunn mentored dozens of startups in Silicon Valley and Canada through Singularity University,[20] C100, BlackBox/Google and Viatec.

In 2016, Liberal cabinet Minister Navdeep Bains appointed Gunn as his top innovation advisor[21] to help the minister's office create a broad strategy[22] to help industries confront rapid technological change,[23] which resulted in the National Innovation Agenda for Canada and lead to Canada's federal 2017 budget being called the Innovation Budget.[24]

Gunn went on to create x-Pollinate a Canada-based think tank with a mandate to seek out and advise on innovative projects that promote global connectivity and positive progress. The firm touts collaborations with the ExO Foundation, Open Source Pharma, USAID Jordan's "Our City" game (in partnership with Social Game Universe),[25] and disaster recovery project Lift Puerto Rico.