Bob Huggins | Advisor
Bob is recognized in the Internet world as a pioneer of digital image transformation.
His creation, Cold North Wind enabled the first use of historical microfilm of newspapers to be made searchable in their original published image form. This pioneering effort helped transform and make available community histories previously locked away in geographical disparate collections.
National newspapers transformed in this process included Canada’s, Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. A project sponsored by The National Autonomous University of Mexico, (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) unlocked histories of the 1917 Mexican revolution. The “Bible of Baseball”, The Sporting News of St Louis was digitized surfacing the stories of Ruth, Cobb, Koufax, Aaron & Marichal to name a few. As a result of this effort, Bob was named to the “100 Influential Canadians in Baseball” as chosen by Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, Bob Elliot.
In 2008, Google, in Mountainview, California, acquired the company.
Since the purchase by Google, Bob has been an active mentor, Entrepreneur-In-Residence and investor in Canada with groups that included, MaRSDD in Toronto, Invest Ottawa, LaunchLab, Kingston & L-Spark, Kanata, Canada’s SaaS Accelerator. He was worked to guide over 200 start-up companies from inception to traction, assisting in the raise of over 200 million dollars in capital.
