Career
From 1987 to 2006, McCall MacBain was the founder, President and CEO of Trader Classified Media, the world's leading classified advertising company. Starting with his purchase of three small publications in Montreal in 1987 when he was 29 years old, McCall MacBain developed the classified business to include 500 print titles and 57 internet sites in over 20 countries, including in Argentina, Australia, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Russia and Spain. After its IPO in 2000, Trader Classified Media was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange. In 2006, McCall MacBain sold Trader Classified Media and set up the McCall MacBain Foundation.
Prior to founding Trader Classified Media, McCall Macbain worked as Director of Marketing at Power Financial from 1984-1987.
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