Michael Tardif

Michael has been creating websites longer than he can recall, literally since their inception. And with IBM, Nestle, and Unilever among his satisfied clients, he must be doing something right.

As a Partner at Ogilvy and Mather, he created the BIG digital playroom—a leading-edge design and experimentation facility for IBM, American Express, Kodak, and others. He hand-coded the original IBM.com (all six pages), led the teams for Deep Thought and Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov websites, as well as sites for US Open Tennis, US Open Golf, and the 1996 Summer Olympics, all sponsored by IBM.

While Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Ammirati Puris Lintas he created the Solutions Center to coordinate worldwide advertising for the likes of Dell, Nestle, and UPS. As COO at PrintVision, a print technology and solutions consultancy for firms like Prudential, Starwood, and the American Cancer Society, Michael supervised a suite of acquired technologies later sold to Ikon Office Solutions.