Eric Mauriello is the Executive Vice President, Partner at PBI Group. Eric has 30-years of experience building businesses and brands using innovative digital marketing and technology. At PBI Group Eric’s focus is on business development, marketing, technology, and operations. Eric brings with him a diverse background of experience working for multinational corporations, as well as small startups. This includes consulting for some of the most successful Fortune 500 brands including Target, Macy's, Mercedes Benz, Ralph Lauren and Intel.

LJM Consulting Services (named after my 3 children) is my personal consulting company which allows me to service existing and future clients with strategic services. (Mostly non profits these days). As a seasoned consultant with 20 + years of digital marketing, e-commerce, interactive exhibits, software development and touch screen innovation experience; I bring all of my energy and creativity to every client no mater what industry or scale. Drop me a note and let me know how I can help.

As an SVP at POSSIBLE, Eric works directly with new clients to scope and define their business goals and objectives so he can craft appropriate interactive solutions. He provides strategic leadership in the development of solutions, interfaces and applications as well as thought leadership on digital out of home and Internet experiences through blogging and public speaking engagements. With more than 15 years of experience creating interactive experiences for a wide variety of customers--including startups, Fortune 500 brands, museums, financial institutions, entertainment, and retail environments--Eric works closely with design and production teams to function as an Account Manager, ensuring that our work effectively advances client business requirements. A senior manager focused on creating multimedia systems (multi touch, kiosks, gestural, mobile and video) as well as complex websites (ecommerce, social, collaborative systems) he has led initiatives bringing interactive technology to tens of millions of people worldwide. His clients have included Target, Dell, Ralph Lauren, Prada, , Macy’s, Verizon, Hyundai and Mercedes Benz as well as venues such as Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History & Air and Space Museum, The Franklin Institute, Sports Museum of America, The New York Historical Society, The Hong Kong Jockey Club, and many more. Eric came to Schematic from NY-based interactive agency Operand, of which he was co-founder and partner. Previous to that, he was Vice President of E-Commerce at Levitz Furniture, and Vice President of Consumer Banking at HSBC Bank USA.Eric holds a BA degree in Finance from Loyola College and a Certificate in Information Technology from New York University.

Operand is a New York City based digital interactive agency dedicated to creating engaging interactive experiences that move audiences. We bring a distinctive, thought-provoking perspective on interactivity to a broad range of museum, retail, event and corporate branding initiatives. Our work is focused on connecting with audiences to create captivating digital experiences capable of reinventing the concept of interactivity. We embrace a new (some say revolutionary) digital paradigm that drives the development of experiences that are powerful, personal, authentic and highly relevant. We work in an open, collaborative environment that encourages successful partnerships with our customers. Our team is passionate about seeking out innovative, unconventional interactive solutions that exceed expectations through a powerful combination of strategy, creativity and technology.

Succeeded in growing www.levitz.com as a direct sales channel by over 70% from last year sales to a $20 million business which represented > 4% of the company revenue and > 10% of store contributions. Defined, built and managed a team of 10 responsible for online marketing (PPC, affiliate, sale promotions), sales support and catalog management including original photography and merchandising information. Responsible for direct marketing to 600,000 email addresses and 1.2 million customers records using RFM data and behavioral analysis. Developed several targeted campaigns online and offline to drive in-store and online sales, producing an ROI of 10 times. Developed numerous multi-channel marketing campaigns and website features to encourage shopping between the 80 stores and the website. Redesigned the user interaction and graphical layer of the website, creating a more streamline, effective shopping experience with modern ecommerce features such as click to call, chat, product reviews, rich media, etc.

Built and managed a 20 person IT department responsible for developing and supporting a web services platform with over 1 million users. The IT systems included an extensive infrastructure with various data centers containing multiple servers running custom applications, large databases, off-the-shelf business systems, as well as several public and private websites. Annotate’s product offering was a unique, downloadable Web companion program called the Annotate Net Radar, that worked in conjunction with the user’s web browser to deliver topically relevant links, based on the current web page. The client-side program worked in real-time sending hundreds of millions of queries to 30 distributed internet servers, delivering timely content to users all over the world. The system possessed a full taxonomy that covered the entire web and heavily utilized Baysian based classification technology, teams of editors, and XLM feeds from various content partners. Responsible for all the HR and administrative issues of the department including management of external vendor relationships with Dell, Microsoft, EMC, MCI, and numerous application providers and destination websites, e.g. Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc.

Throughout a five-year term, had parallel experiences as a line of business department head, as well as a project manager responsible for numerous business IT initiatives.