Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become SVP, Programmatic Media of chargeFUZE / adFUZE. Two years ago at South by Southwest (SXSW), Colin Duethorn, Global Lead/Revenue Partnerships at Snap Inc., reached out saying he had the perfect role for me and asked if I could join him at a ...
Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become Co-Founder & CEO of Grocery TV. My path to becoming the CEO of Grocery TV was an unusual journey. I studied physics at the University of Texas and would do software development on the side for some extra spending money while in ...
Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become CEO at UniLED Software. My original plan after university was to work in finance, but in 2008 as everyone knows, the world economy collapsed, and those plans quickly changed. I ended up working on a property with my father that had a ...
Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become Vice President & General Counsel at The Lindmark Companies. My first experience with billboards was right out of law school when in 1999, I began taking them through eminent domain, which introduced me to their valuation methodology. Then, in 2004 a friend ...
Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become Group Media Director at PJX Media. I majored in marketing at The George Washington University in D.C. and having grown up in the New York area, I always knew that I’d come back as soon as I graduated to get into marketing, media, ...
Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become President of Sales & Strategy for Crackle Connex. I was at Discovery Networks running digital sales for the Oprah Winfrey Network and Oprah.com — and received a call from a recruiter at Sony Pictures Television. They were in the process of building out ...
Tell us a bit about your background and what led you to become President and CEO of Red Rock Outdoor. I started in this business almost 24 years ago at a company called Vista Media. At the time, they were Vista Metropolitan Outdoor—a small mom and pop organization in New York. Vista was acquired by ...
A conversation with Michael Ricciardi, Co-Founder/Managing Partner, Innovare Medical Media. Q: What was your path to Innovare? Prior to co-founding Innovare Medical Media, I held various roles at Pfizer across sales, training, and marketing. Through a mutual friend, I was introduced to my now business partners, Mark, and Nick Lieberman. Mark and his family owned and operated ...
How In-Store Audio Network Became Stingray Advertising Gary Seem: I started my career at News America Marketing, working on other in-store products and freestanding inserts (FSI’s) that were distributed in the Sunday newspaper. Eventually, we acquired In-Store Audio Network (ISAN) in 2003. Quite honestly, I think we got into this business almost too early. In ...
Tell us about your experience in founding and expanding Vistar Media to be the programmatic DOOH exchange that it is today? When we founded Vistar ten years ago, OOH was undergoing a major digital transformation but still suffered from highly manual and inefficient ways of transacting media. With the capabilities available via programmatic, we saw ...
