TORONTO – Max Valiquette will fill the seventh and final seat on the Canada Media Fund’s board of directors for 2009-2010.
Appointed by the Canadian Coalition for Cultural Expression (CCCE), Valiquette is founder and president of the youth marketing and research firm Youthography.
A renowned expert and speaker on youth and pop culture, Valiquette was the marketing chair for the AIDS Committee’s 2008 Fashion Cares event, and currently sits on the advisory board for Mediacs, a youth media literacy advocacy group.
He joins fellow CCCE nominees Alison Clayton, Guy Fournier, Ronald W. Osborne, and Louis L. Roquet, and Department of Canadian Heritage nominees Cheryl Barker and Eileen Sarkar on the 2009-2010 CMF Board of Directors. The board will focus on stewardship, oversight, and accountability of the Fund, which will conduct business as the Canadian Television Fund for the remainder of this fiscal year.
