GenieKnows is a Canadian Incorporation, privately owned and operated, whose registered offices are located at 1567 Argyle Street, Halifax Nova Scotia (“GenieKnows Inc”). GenieKnows was incorporated in November 1999.

OK, that’s the serious stuff out of the way, now more about us.

GenieKnows.com is the corporate(ish) home for our company products and services. Here you’ll find links to everything we are working on and hints at what might be coming soon.

We’ve built our trusted search and display media business around the ability to target quality internet traffic and deliver that traffic into direct advertisers and partnerships.

Our network includes an array of publisher websites such as BellAliant.net; SportNovaScotia.ca and some of our own too; myticketpick.com; gkmen.com, yellowee.com and gklife.com to name a few.

Barbara Manning - CEO & President

Barbara continues to build GenieKnows Inc. into a market leader in the Internet search industry. She believes GenieKnows Inc. has the capability of being a leader in Canada in the development of digital media technologies and in the information retrieval sector.

Since graduating with her MBA in 1994 from St Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada, she has built strategic alliances and strong partnerships both domestically and internationally. Barbara has served on regional and national boards.

Barbara channels the skills she has acquired into ensuring that GenieKnows Inc. achieves its vision and remains a profitable enterprise for both employees and stakeholders. With her expertise and experience, GenieKnows Inc. will continue to achieve positive growth both domestically and abroad and be positioned to take advantage of outside capital investment as the need arises.

John Manning - Senior Vice President

John A. Manning is a Senior Vice President of Business Development of GenieKnows Inc. and one of the founding principles of the company.

John has been instrumental in obtaining and fostering many of our long term relationships and is responsible for the overall development and implementation of the sales department. He is an advisor on human resource management within the company.

John obtained a Bachelor and a Masters in Psychology from De Paul University in Chicago as well as a Masters in Education from Dalhousie University in Halifax.

JT Manning - VP Media

JT Manning has been with GenieKnows Inc. since early in the company’s inception. Bringing over eight years of experience in the online marketing space, in addition to a wealth of industry contacts and knowledge, JT is reshaping the face of GenieKnows Inc. bringing it from a second tier PPC ad network to a full service online marketing firm.

For leisure, JT is an avid gym-goer, and also enjoys, reading, cinema, researching astronomy and anthropology.

Jodi Manning - VP Strategic Relations

Jodi Manning is a long standing member of the GenieKnows Inc. team. Bringing over 7 years of online marketing experience with her, Jodi is responsible for managing and forecasting all sales produced by the Genieknows Advertising team. In addition to this, Jodi manages relationships with high profile advertising clients. Through focusing on the development of the company’s advertising products and services, Jodi has created a landscape for both our advertisers and GenieKnows to prosper.

In her spare time Jodi enjoys spending time with her family, kettlebell training and playing volleyball.

Mark Harper - VP Marketing

Mark has served in management capacities with the Ministry of Defence (1990-1994) in London, England; followed by the British Foreign Service (1994-1997) and then European Union (1997-2002) both in Washington DC, USA.

He then moved with his family to Canada and joined the GenieKnows management team as Director of Operations in July 2002 and was promoted to VP of Strategic Relations in 2006.

After a company reorganization was later appointed VP Marketing & Content and is now responsible for communications; marketing and PR for the Company.

A proven team leader his skill set encompasses international project administration, business partnership management, extensive financial and operational management experience.

He has a passion for sports, travel and his family – and is currently volunteering as a coach with a local soccer club.

Leonard Roberts - Director of Publishing

Leonard is a key member of the GenieKnows business development team and currently holds the position of Director of Publishing. He has obtained a Masters degree in Electronic Commerce from Dalhousie University, a Bachelor of Commerce and a Certificate in H.R Management from St. Mary’s University, as well as an Associates degree in computer data processing from the College of the Bahamas.

In his spare time, Leonard likes basketball, gaming and time spent with friends and family.

Corey Loye - Business Development

Corey’s constant strategic thinking and client-focused attitude has him constantly looking for the next opportunity. Corey brings a wealth of experience in the world of online media to GenieKnows from the production side, to the sales side, and many other business development roles from companies such as Sports Direct Inc., Covers.com and Rogers Telecom.

Outside the office, Corey’s passion for sports is ever-present while competitively playing golf, football, baseball, and hockey. He also enjoys traveling, hiking, skiing, and competing in many varieties of fantasy sports.