Leerom Segal
Leerom Segal is CEO of Klick Health, the world’s largest independent digital health agency that he co-founded in 1997. He launched his first company at 12, sold his first business when he was 14, and was named CTO of publicly traded Motion Works Group by the time he was 16.
Known for his unconventional approach to business, Leerom co-wrote The New York Times Bestseller THE DECODED COMPANY: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers (Portfolio/Penguin, 2014). He recently spoke at TEDGlobal, the Cannes Lions Health Creativity Festival, Harvard University and Twitter’s global HQ, and has received numerous accolades, including Ernst and Young’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
He has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Business Development Bank of Canada, a Top 40 Under 40 award winner by both The Globe & Mail and Direct Marketing News, and was inducted into PROFIT Magazine's Hall of Fame as the Youngest CEO ever to lead a Profit 100 company. For the last three years, he was also named One of the 100 Most Inspiring People in health. In 2013, he was named Visionary of the Year by MedAdNews, and in 2014, he received the Gold Award for Marketer of the Year by Medical Marketing & Media (MM&M) magazine.
Under Leerom’s leadership, Klick has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Company to Watch, as well as one of the country's 50 Best Managed Companies, 50 Best Employers, 50 Fastest-Growing Tech companies, Most Admired Cultures and Best Workplaces.
Read the M-Prize winning story on how Klick “Harnessed Big Data and Social Technology to Empower Employees.”