No. 34: Ernie Canadeo – Most Entertaining Innovator

Cutting edge: Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Chairman Ernie Canadeo (with scissors) and friends ceremoniously open LIMEHOF's new Stony Brook home.

 

Ernie Canadeo is a dynamo of digital advertising, a champion of regional entertainment and maybe the most interesting man in Long Island innovation.

The founder and CEO of Melville-based integrated advertising agency The EGC Group and chairman of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame has built a successful career around big names, big ideas and a lifelong love of great music – and had loads of fun along the way.

Now, with his world-class advertising agency preparing the latest installment of its globally renowned “Crushies,” his “X-rated” days at Studio 54 well behind him and LIMEHOF’s brightest days ahead, the music man joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to reveal his deepest 21st Century marketing secrets – and drop more famous names than a Beverly Hills phonebook.