ComBridges founder and president Jon Leland is a leading communication expert who has been an innovator for over 25 years.

In the seventies, Mr. Leland founded one of the first narrowcast radio networks. In the eighties, he was a cable and pay-TV pioneer who founded the on-air promotion department at cable's USA Network. And, in the nineties, Leland has written and produced original video programs, leading edge web sites and interactive TV prototypes.

Corporate projects have included two interactive TV "future vision" videos for Pacific Bell and an interactive TV prototype application for Oracle Corporation which was displayed at Disney World's Epcot Center. Corporate clients include AT&T, Dolch Computers, HBO, Hooked on Phonics, Lifetime Cable Television, Madison Square Garden Network, NEC America, New York Telephone, Paramount Home Video, Silicon Graphics, Simon & Schuster Video, TEN-TV, Viacom, VDOnet and Xerox, among others.

An evangelist for low cost video production tools, in 1994, Leland wrote, produced and directed "The Digital Video-Video," a half-hour overview of new technologies for video professionals which received sponsorship support from eight companies including Adobe, Avid Technologies, Media 100, Specular International and Videograhy magazine.

Jon is also a contributing editor to Videography magazine with a monthly column "The Video Web", and is a contributor to Computer Graphics World, Publish and TV-Broadcast magazines. Jon has also published a series of online articles about how businesses can use the World Wide Web to gain a strategic advantage. It's called "The Web Edge" and it appears on ComBridges' own Media Mall web site. (Writing samples are available via this link.)

Mr. Leland has led workshops at the Inc. 500, Inc. Growing the Company, MacWorld, Image Expos, Corporate Computing Expo and other conferences. He has also served as the conference director of the Rocky Mountain Film & Video Expo and as the West Coast on-camera correspondent for the American Business Journal TV series.

Articles about Mr. Leland and his work have been published in Business Week, Presentations, Electronic Media, MPC World, PC Today, San Francisco Business Times and Videomaker magazines, among others.