Lanny Cardow is a digital marketing professional with extensive experience in political and public affairs communications.
Lanny is the founder of Highpoint Digital, a digital agency based in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to starting his business, Lanny served as vice president and digital practice lead at NATIONAL Public Relations in Toronto, leading a team that built organic and paid digital campaigns supporting some of Canada’s most loved brands. Previously, Lanny was a principal at Navigator Limited, Canada’s foremost high-stakes public strategy and communications firm. There he developed integrated digital campaigns to advance client advocacy and reputation-building efforts.
Lanny has served as the digital director for the Conservative Party of Canada in Ottawa, assembling and leading a team of developers, content producers, and digital advertising specialists to identify voters and raise record online donations in the lead-up to the 2015 federal election.
A longtime advisor in the in the office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Lanny’s political staff roles included managing the Government of Canada’s advertising portfolio and serving as the executive assistant to the Prime Minister’s chief of staff.
An expert in strategic message development, Lanny has worked with Washington, DC-based Luntz Global to test advertising for corporate and political clients in the United States and abroad.
Lanny is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, where he completed his Masters of Arts degree with a concentration in polling. While in Washington, Lanny conducted research for the Institute of Politics, Democracy and the Internet, and interned in the office of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich.