Brian R. Balbirnie

Brian R. Balbirnie is the founder of ACCESS Newswire (formerly Issuer Direct Corporation) and has served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director since founding the company in 2006; he is also Chairperson of the Board. He established the company in 2006 with a vision of creating a technology-driven back-office compliance platform that would reduce costs and increase the efficiency of the most complex tasks, and he is responsible for the company's strategic leadership and its day-to-day operations. Under his direction the company worked with over 6,000 customers in 2024. Before founding the company, Mr. Balbirnie was the founder and managing partner of Catapult Company, a compliance and consulting practice focused on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; during 2002 and 2003 he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mobile Reach International, Inc., a publicly traded company, and as President and Chief Technology Officer of IVUE Corporation, a private company. He is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in emerging industries and brings over 19 years of business, finance, marketing and leadership experience in the communications and compliance industries.

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