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As the leader of Wpromote's national sales team, Eric is responsible for guiding the company to accelerated performance for our clients and boosting client win rates in their respective markets. Drawing on 15 years of experience in developing sales and customer success teams in the digital and search marketing spaces, Eric has helped brands of all shapes and sizes redefine what getting found means. Eric spends his time away from the office with his wife and three kids.

Jamie joined Wpromote in 2008 and launched the internal marketing division from the ground up. Now as SVP, she manages Wpromote's extensive marketing endeavors, including major website redesigns, sales materials, events, demand gen, thought leadership, press, and more. A background in event marketing, Jamie cares deeply about creating a great experience, and her excellent design aesthetic helps shape the entire Wpromote brand.

A native New Yorker born and raised in Queens, Jeff graduated from New York University's Stern School of Business before moving on to the world of digital marketing. Prior to Wpromote Jeff directed strategy for, and held digital marketing roles with, brands like LG Electronics, American Express, Sports Illustrated and CNN, accruing over twenty years of digital marketing experience. When not developing insights-based strategies for our clients, Jeff can be found spending time with his family or working on his fantasy football roster.

As the SVP, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Jenny oversees various verticals across private equity, VC, and entertainment, focusing on helping companies achieve growth and profitability. She provides an additional layer of strategy and support for board members and executives across portfolio companies and Wpromote's roster of clients. Jenny has over a decade of in-house experience driving digital transformation, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to operations at a private equity firm.

As SVP of Client Service at Wpromote, Jon oversees all client relationships and development while working hand-in-hand with clients who are onboarding and transitioning into the Wpromote family. He brings a wide range of experience in digital marketing from both the in-house and agency side of the industry, specializing in cross-channel integration for large international companies. Before joining Wpromote in January 2020, Jon worked at Dentsu Aegis/iProspect as a Managing Director and Head of Corporate Development. Prior to iProspect, Jon worked with a variety of smaller agencies specializing in digital marketing, web-based training, and instructional design. Key managed clients include Sony, Procter & Gamble, Williams Sonoma, Microsoft, HP, Chase, and the Department of the Navy.

Anna has nearly 20 years of digital marketing experience in client services, specializing in web development as well as performance and content marketing. She has managed digital and integrated campaigns for Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Sony, and Purina. Her experience also includes work for Farmers Insurance, William Grant & Sons Distillers, Oracle, and Neutrogena. Born and raised in Sweden, she now lives in Halesite, NY, with her husband and two children.

Aubrie joined Wpromote in 2020 and is an experienced leader specializing in enterprise marketing strategy and vision. In her role as Managing Director, she leverages her expertise to provide strategic guidance to both Wpromote's clients and the Client Services team and is responsible for establishing relationships and new pathways to growth for clients. As a passionate, integrated digital marketer, Aubrie loves working with teams to bring a holistic strategy to life for clients.

Marissa Allen joined Wpromote in 2008; as an ecommerce expert and paid media guru, she challenged Wpromote clients to succeed. After spending several years on accelerated account development, Marissa stepped up to establish Wpromote's Strategy team, where she drives omnichannel strategic growth through a strong belief in the full-funnel approach. As a business and relationship activator, Marissa loves cultivating lifelong client relationships and building brand advocacy as an outsourced CMO and C-suite consultant for clients.

Claire provides strategic leadership to Wpromote’s enterprise clients like Whirlpool and Transunion, helping them to drive growth. While Claire started her career practicing law in London, she moved to L.A. and found her ultimate passion was digital marketing, particularly structuring campaigns around key business goals and full-funnel thinking. Despite living in the U.S. since 2011, Claire still has a strong English accent and enjoys confusing her American colleagues with quirky U.K. phrases.

Soso is the startup whisperer. He cut his teeth working with fast-paced, high-growth startups in Silicon Valley after graduating from UC Berkeley. He founded Growth Pilots in 2014 to help venture-backed companies grow faster by scaling their paid marketing channels more intelligently. Growth Pilots was acquired by Wpromote in 2019. As Vice President of Growth and Innovation, Soso oversees high-growth client relationships and ensures Wpromote is doing everything possible to ensure they all have growth charts that resemble hockey sticks. He lives his life a quarter (mile) at a time and embodies Ricky Bobby’s sage wisdom that "if you ain’t first, you’re last".

Andrew joined Wpromote in 2020 following the acquisition of his previous digital marketing agency. He comes with 10 years of experience in client services, executing digital media campaigns and performance creative for retail and e-commerce brands. As a Group Account Director, he will provide strategic direction to our clients on how to develop an omnichannel media campaign aimed at engaging users throughout the customer journey. Andrew is passionate about sharing his experiences with team members and clients in the hopes that these learnings can be applied to the success of future campaigns.

Christine is a digital marketing leader with nearly 15 years of account management agency experience. Christine and her team are focused on building strong client partnerships by driving results and sharing new strategic ideas to help clients solve their biggest marketing challenges. When not pushing clients to improve, Christine enjoys being with family and friends, traveling, and being outside as much as possible, especially skiing with her husband and three sons.

For over ten years, David has been helping clients launch successful marketing campaigns, aligning their big ideas, digital media, and business goals. As Group Account Director at Wpromote, David brings integrated strategy and leadership to our most complex enterprise clients, helping them take the holistic view of the customer journey and developing a full-funnel approach to their digital programs. Outside of Wpromote, David enjoys golfing, bike rides with his wife on the shores of Lake Michigan, and exploring Chicago breweries and restaurants.

Kimberlee joined the Wpromote team over six years ago and has managed almost every digital channel. She's an avid reader of any business books she can get her hands on, and relishes the opportunity to develop innovative strategies and campaigns for her book of industry-leading brands.

As a Group Account Director at Wpromote, Sean leads key client relationships and guides cross-channel team strategy and delivery. He brings a valuable blend of management, strategic leadership and resourcefulness combined with imagination, to produce highly effective outcomes for Wpromote clients. When not immersed in his client’s business, Sean enjoys spending his time with his daughter and wife.

David’s experience in paid search and digital media dates back to 2006, leading media teams at Mindshare, Media Assembly, MediaVest, and Blue Fountain Media. His experience spans all aspects of digital media, implementing campaigns across channels for clients like Honda/Acura, Fox, E*Trade, General Mills, Tyson, IBM, Allergan, Facebook, and many others. In addition to his passion for media, David enjoys golfing, obsessing over Formula 1, frequenting comedy clubs, and spending time with his wife and newborn son.

As Vice President of Earned Media, Rachel oversees division-wide growth, profitability, innovation, and team development across Wpromote’s SEO, Content Marketing, Influencer, Affiliate, and Content Development departments. An English major at heart, Rachel challenges her teams to build stories that engage organically, earn trust, and drive more profitable, sustainable performance.

Simon leads the digital intelligence team at Wpromote, working to make data more accessible and useful to drive business decisions. He oversees the Analytics Development, Data Analysis, and Data Science teams, as well as the data strategists who work directly with clients to uncover their big business questions and develop data-based solutions to find the answers. Simon is also a nationally-recognized speaker on attribution and analytics, and has spoken at SMX Advanced and the Utah DMC. He frequently contributes to major industry publications including Search Engine Land and Moz.

Tom leads product at Wpromote, helping brands accelerate profitable growth with digital marketing through clean data architecture, advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and assistive automation. Tom got his start with Wpromote managing their partnership with Google. He enjoyed the culture so much, he joined in 2018 as VP of Paid Media, where he launched two high growth services, Amazon and Performance Creative, and integrated them with Paid Search, Social, and Programmatic delivery to improve paid performance for clients.

As the Head of Performance Creative, Adam pairs world-class creative with data insight. Hailing from Anchorage Alaska, Adam studied film production and advertising at Chapman University. Prior to Wpromote, Adam ran his own production company, where he worked with international clients ranging from Universal Music Group to Gatorade. Adam's work has hundreds of millions of views and has earned clients tens of millions in revenue. He's an unabashed film and tech nerd and is usually on his 6th shot of espresso.

Dexter joined the Wpromote team as an account manager after graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Business Marketing. He brings an energetic and goal-driven approach to department-wide profitability and resource management through sales and operational initiatives. He specializes in P&L management, budgeting & finance, operations, and sales & marketing, with professional experience in the health, automotive, hospitality, real estate, and ecommerce verticals. When he's not in the office you are almost guaranteed to find him on a tennis court taking down the local competition or outdoors doing anything active like swimming or soccer.

Justin is fully dedicated to his team and their clients. He focuses on innovation and thought leadership in order to maximize SEO strategy and growth for the SEO team. Justin graduated from USC with a degree in International Relations with a focus on Global Marketing and uses what he learned regularly in his day-to-day work. When he's not strategizing around the complex world of search engines, Justin enjoys traveling, reading a great book, and spending time with his dog, Teddy.

Mike leads the email team at Wpromote. He’s a veteran email marketer that enjoys building new relationships and is motivated by mentoring and coaching teams and developing strategies to help brands crush their goals. His experience spans across both agency and brand sides, and he has helped establish and grow email programs for many fast-growth startups and iconic enterprise brands. Previously, Mike was a senior leader at an award-winning boutique email agency and played a key role in growing the team from 10 to 90+ employees making it the largest agency of its kind before being acquired. Mike and his wife Laura live just outside of Philadelphia and have a daughter named Ferris with lots of curls, and a super laid-back (aka lazy) Golden Retriever named Ruxin. Mike plays guitar, loves stand-up and sketch comedy.

Sam was one of the first employees at Wpromote's Chicago office. As Head of Content Marketing, you can find her regularly nerding out about content and the digital marketing strategies that help Wpromote clients dominate their industries. She is in complete denial about her thick Chicago accent, although she won't deny her love for Chicago sports. When she has free time, she's often found checking out new restaurants and bars and looking for different ways to stay active.

Darren joined Wpromote in 2013 as an entry-level account manager on the SMB team. Over the past seven years, he's been on the incredibly rewarding journey to his current role as Group Director of the Social Media team. In past lives, Darren existed as a bartender, a journalist, and a digital content producer for a TV network. In his current role, he finds extreme joy in helping to shape our team, our clients' brands, and the way we all share our stories online. Darren is fueled by live music, inspiring conversations, and delicious craft beer.

A SoCal native from Redondo Beach, Jonathan graduated from Chico State with a double degree in Public Relations and Spanish. He helps clients leverage programmatic to engage advertisers and brands with their respective audiences. Over the past eight years, he's built experience across retail, ecommerce, financial, CPG, travel, and business verticals, familiar with both the supply and demand sides of programmatic media buying. When not developing programmatic strategies, he can be found at the beach playing volleyball or taking long hikes with his German Shepherd.

David grew up in Manhattan Beach but has Chicago roots. He came to Wpromote to lead the Amazon team and help brands grow on the Ecommerce giant. He has a deep background in client service and extensive knowledge of the Amazon marketplace. His previous experience helping build out 2 Amazon teams positions him well for understanding the needs of clients and the complexities of the marketplace. His competitive nature likely stems from being a Division I collegiate runner, however these days he spends less time on the track and more time on the beach.

Steve has been involved in creative advertising since his idol Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the 90s. After graduating from St. John's University, he went on to lead the in-house creative department at Nikon USA before venturing into agency life, where he worked on brands such as Brother International, Travelers Insurance, Sterlilng Optical, and Silicon Valley Bank. When he's not glued to any one of his six Apple devices, he likes to watch Star Wars, complete any toy collection, and test the 'ultimate driving machine' slogan.

Bob Schwartz has created over $1 billion of shareholder value in commerce and technology companies, including building Magento to 30%+ global marketshare (acquired by eBay), serving as the "Founder & GM" of Nordstrom.com ($2.5B in 2015), and selling an online auction company to Amazon. Bob serves as Vice Chairman of Wpromote, providing strategic advice, partnerships, talent, experience, and mentorship to drive growth and value to Wpromote and its clients, including the establishment of Wpromote's Commerce Advisory Group. Bob is currently CEO of the company building firm 47B Street, and is a thought leader in retail/technology, speaking globally on those topics.

Steve is a Shamrock Capital Advisors Partner. Since 1998, Steve has managed Shamrock’s private equity investment activities. He currently serves as a director of Wpromote, Branded Cities, Maple Media, and Mobilitie. Previously, he served on the boards of INgrooves Music Group, Screenvision Media, Consilio, Learfield Communications, Media Storm, RealD, TeleGuam Holdings, Modern Luxury, Triad Broadcasting Company, PortalPlayer, PRN, and NETGEAR before Shamrock exited these investments. Steve serves on the Board of Trustees of Marymount High School, Los Angeles and is also a board member and former President of the St. James Inn. Prior to joining Shamrock in 1991, Steve worked as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers.

Steve graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management as a Venture Fellow.

Laura is a Partner of Shamrock Capital Advisors. She currently serves as a director of Wpromote and Mobilitie. Previously, Laura served on the boards of Questex, RBmedia and as a board observer of Wazee Digital. Prior to joining Shamrock in 2012, Laura was an Associate in the Corporate Strategy group at The Walt Disney Company. She also previously worked as an Associate at The Carlyle Group and as an investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse.

Laura graduated cum laude from Georgetown University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Brian Barnum is an Operating Partner with Shamrock Capital Advisors and works with Shamrock’s portfolio companies to improve operations and increase value. Prior to joining Shamrock in 2017, Mr. Barnum held a number of senior executive roles for privately held media, communications and technology companies including COO of Brighter, Inc., COO/CFO of The Rubicon Project, the COO/CFO of Business.com and later the President of Dex Media’s Digital businesses after it acquired Business.com, the CFO of Rent.com through its acquisition by eBay, and the CFO of Transaction Network Services, which he guided through an IPO. Prior to his roles as an operating executive, Mr. Barnum worked in investment banking to media companies at Bankers Trust Company and to technology and communications companies at Alex. Brown & Sons. Mr. Barnum has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and has a BA in Economics from Stanford University.