RamsayTalks Employee Directory

Bob Ramsay is the president of Ramsay Inc., a Toronto communications and marketing firm. Bob was born in Edmonton, went to high school in Port Hope and graduated from Princeton with a BA in English and from Radcliffe-Harvard with a diploma in publishing. Hes been an advertising copywriter and book editor and a speechwriter for Ontario Premier Bill... Davis. Hes written speeches for countless CEOs and corporate leaders, and he contributes opinion pieces on diversity, the arts and bicycling for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Macleans, and a regular blog called RamsayWrites (formerly The Plague-Ground.) Click here to join Bobs blog. He also teaches executives in major corporations how to write better, present better, persuade more and pitch to win. For over 30 years, he has organized the speakers series, RamsayTalks , which presents some of the leading figures of the age, from Jodi Kantor and Niall Ferguson, to Eric Schmidt and Susan Rice. In addition, he is deeply involved with the community. For many years, he was the fundraising chair on the board of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and an executive board member of the Canadian Film Centre. He has also served on the boards of the St. Lawrence Centre, the Womens College Hospital Foundation, and the International Festival of Authors, which he also chaired. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Medal in 2015 and the Bernier Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographic Society in 2017. He is also a member of The Explorers Club in New York. In September 2019, Bob and his wife Dr. Jean Marmoreo circumnavigated Manhattan by kayak.Read More