Sharon Flynn

Sharon is a digital pioneer with 15+ years of experience as a digital practitioner in Finance, Brand and Media spaces, including BMO, (Sr. Manager Digital Analytics), Millward Brown (Director of Digital Strategy & Effectiveness), TVO (Director of Research), Astral Media (Head of Research & Director of Interactive Research), CBC (Research Manager), and The Canadian Media Fund (Statistical and Economic Analyst). Her experience also traces back to print media, sales, and academic roles in her native Dublin where she completed her degree in economics from Trinity College Dublin and master’s in media studies from the Dublin Institute of technology.

Conversant in multiple market research methodologies, Sharon has spent her career operationalizing data including digital data. She is particularly interested in overcoming cultural and institutional impediments that derail excellent implementations from becoming insights that drive ROI.

Working in Canada with traditionally smaller teams that require a multi-disciplinary approach, she offers real-world experience of both the grit to overcome silos and the empathy needed to forge meaningful alliances with other data providers - both inside and outside the organization. Sharon is a passionate believer in the immeasurable value of a digital analytics team from the shop floor to the c-suite. She balances the ethos of democratizing digital data with advocacy for the importance of digital SMEs.