Richard Ciano is the president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He was formerly a National Vice President and National Councillor (Ontario)[1] of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was elected to the National Council [2] of the Conservative Party of Canada on March 19, 2005 at the Conservative Party of Canada's founding convention in Montreal and served until the November 15th, 2008.
He has served as campaign manager for prominent conservative politicians such as Peter Van Loan, MP and Government House Leader of the Government of Canada [3] and Peter Shurman[4] a member of the Ontario Legislature and was a senior advisor to Rob Ford's 2010 Toronto mayoral election campaign.
He is a noted political trainer having founded the Conservative Campaign University [5], a political training school for activists for the Conservative Party of Canada.