Chris D'Avanzo Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Md, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Managed a cross-functional team responsible for all gaming ad sales for U.S based gaming developers (mobile and console), Clients include PlayStation, Nintendo, EA, Activision, Epic, Ubisoft, Riot, AppLovin, Supercell, Scopely, and Glu • Responsibilities included GTM/growth strategy, forecasting, training and development, sales narrative, and leadership team representative for the gaming vertical

San Francisco, California, Us

[Acquired by Reddit] Spiketrap empowers gaming and entertainment brands, platforms, developers, and agencies to better understand and engage their audiences through AI-powered contextual analysis & advertising tools.• Hired as employee twelve tasked with creating a revenue plan, sales strategy, and new sales team from scratch. Successfully doubled revenue year over year driven predominately by new business while executing a successful growth strategy with existing clients• Restructured pricing model which allowed us to target new markets, rapidly increasing revenue• Authored sales narrative and market positioning in order to speak to companies outside of the video game industry

• San Francisco's first employee and employee 35 overall. Member of the senior leadership team, responsible for defining strategy and vision company-wide• Managed all aspects of our newly formed mobile games performance marketing business and in less than five years helped build a 60 person regional office in San Francisco.• Led a cross-functional team of professionals responsible for taking the business from $0 to $100 million in revenue in just under two years, fueling international expansion, that in turn generated an additional $100 million over the following two years• Helped pioneer in-app mobile video, the value exchange ad unit, as well as mobile attribution and measurement.• Overall AdColony grew from zero publishers, users, advertisers, and revenue to: 5,000 publishers, 750MM unique users, and $250MM in revenue at time of sale to Opera in July 2014 for $350 million. At the time, this was the largest ad tech exit ever in Los Angeles / Silicon Beach and Top Five ad tech exit all-time.

Los Angeles, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Responsible for nearly $300 million in international revenue while overseeing eight brand managers around the world representing brands like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Lego• Successfully helped grow international market share from 30% to 44%

• Hired and managed national retail team consisting of 3 Retail Managers and 30 Retail Sales Representatives, while concurrently managing $15MM in annual revenue through Fry’s Electronics and Western Canada Retailers including Best Buy/Futureshop

Towson, Md, Us

• Managed 15 person event marketing team that demonstrated how to build DIY projects using Black and Decker tools outside of various retail locations.