Greg Reiss Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Responsible for leading a team of 10, generating/managing revenue streams for the East & Midwest. Implementing strategy and cultivating Influential's relationships with agencies, brands, and Fortune 500 partnerships. Influential is an A.I. influencer technology and developer partner of IBM Watson. Influential’s patent-pending app is on the hip pocket of more than 3,000,000 of the most highly engaged influencers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, & YouTube that reaches over 5 billion users. Brands and agencies are able to make a digital media buy on social via Influential’s in-demo impression guarantee, which mirrors traditional or digital media spends. Influential conducts all campaigns through a brand-safe gateway and provides robust recaps via 3rd party analytics partners. Influential and IBM Watson have also co-created technologies that allow brands and agencies to identify psychographic data on influencers, as well as three first-to-market A.I. products. Most importantly we track and prove ROI as a result of our campaigns. Influential runs campaigns for Fortune 100 companies including P&G, Staples, McDonalds, General Mills, GM, Fox TV, Sony Pictures and more. Influential has offices in Beverly Hills, New York City, Chicago, Detroit and Las Vegas.

Vadio has music video partnerships that enable us to provide brands the ability to reach the music enthusiasts of virtually any artist. Vadio has music video distribution partnerships on CBS Interactive and Shazam (app). Vadio has also launched on 7 million new Vizio TV's from an OTT perspective. Vadio helps fans to discover more artists & premium music video channels when, where and how they choose. *Lead all desktop & mobile National advertising sales with a focus on the Shazam (app).*Closed key strategic PMP/Programmatic "Alway's On" deals.

January 2014-Present• Manage the ZUUS Media National sales team and report into the CEO.• Lead all multi-platform sales and responsible for managing all aspects of the ZUUS Media National advertising sales business.• Solidified a multi-million dollar partnership with a major agency holding company, and attained preferred partner status.• Helped to secure funding from key angel investor.• Cultivated multiple strategic partnerships from the ground up and within one year’s time have moved ZUUS to a Top 5 Music Video entity in Comscore.• Created the business plan and go forward strategy for sales.• Implemented forecasting, account reviews, traffic analysis, RFP, and sales processes.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed a National digital sales team of 10 Account Executives and Account Managers in NY & Detroit & reported into the President of Sales.• Ran all aspects of Viacom BET Networks Digital’s business.• Lead all multi-platform sales & executed digital sales strategy for Viacom/BET Networks divisions.• Increased total revenue YOY by over 41% and over 250% online video for FY’13.• Participated in large scale convergent upfront negotiations with key agency heads on the digital and broadcast sides of the business.• Face of the company by attending industry events and leading evangelist efforts across traditional/digital/mobile agencies.• Extensive senior level relationships with CPG, Tech, Auto, Telecom, QSR, Liquor, & Retail.• Developed new monetization models, handled crisis management, team building & talent retention, and navigating change for a large organization.