Jay Middleton Email & Phone Number

Founder of Jay Middleton Music LLC, a music company that creates and develops original music recordings and live performances with The Jay Middleton Band (JMB).

San Jose, CA, US

• Tasked in 2006 with building Adobe a world-class global search marketing discipline from the ground up, centralizing operations to one WW agency partner in 2008 (through a global RFP) and then migrating everything 100%.
• Very close partnership with HR, Finance, Legal & Procurement. Project completed ahead of schedule & under-budget. In-house team increased ROI 215% by the end of year 1.
• Migrated all data & analytics to the Adobe Media Optimizer platform including: APIs, data validation, QA, team platform trainings, custom dashboards, reporting & forecasting and set-up & refinement of the portfolios.
• Co-Executive Sponsor (w/VP of Search Engineering) of Product Development project to build an internal Site Search Engine for Adobe.com including: gathering requirements & use cases, assigning engineering resources &.
• Responsible for providing regular detailed input to the Product & Engineering teams including: product & platform feedback, product road map requests and team training & access to all beta releases.
• Strong partnership with Sales including: developing case studies & thought leadership content for sales collateral and providing in-person support at many customer briefings/new business pitch meetings.

• Responsible for all Search Marketing campaign management activities & client relations for advertising clients across multiple verticals.
• Managed an end-to-end, full-service Client Services & Media team of 12.
• Responsible for managing all daily search campaign deliverables and daily client interactions; also budget approvals & budget management, MSA/IO contract negotiations, weekly reporting/analysis and weekly client.
• Blue Chip brand clients I have managed global SEM campaigns for include: Covad Communications, Sprint, Siebel Systems, Cisco, Honda, Polaroid, Business.com, TIAA-CREF, Fisher Investments, PlanetOut Inc., philosophy.
• Top Advertising Agencies I have managed search marketing efforts for (private label) include: Organic, Harte Hanks, Genex, Responsys, Starcom, Posner, CL&S, ID Media and BSSP (Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners).
• Strong, close working relationships with all major search engine and media property vendors. Inclusion in cutting-edge beta projects including: Google Video, Google Print, Google pay-per-call, Google CPA Bidding.

• Business Owner & Lead Singer of All Star Jukebox, a successful corporate party band playing hits from all eras at events & venues of all sizes across the US West Coast.
• World-class musician line-up who have toured with Jefferson Starship, Tower of Power (2 founding members), Herbie Hancock, Sly & the Family Stone, The Funky Meters, KC & the Sunshine Band, Jean Luc Ponty & Tommy Castro.
• Latoya London sang with the band for 3 years before she finished 4th on American Idol (3rd season w/Jennifer Hudson that Fantasia Barrino won). All Star Jukebox was interviewed & appeared on the show jamming with her.
• Performed at many big corporate events for clients including: Microsoft (Build Conference closing night act), Google, Kaiser Permanente & Adobe (4 times).

• Founder, Lead Singer, Songwriter & Business Manager of this successful 90’s original pop rock band.
• The band’s song “She Said” off their second album "Mister Moon" hit #55 on the Top100 charts with a peak of 960 spins/week nationally. Album was produced by 5-time Grammy-winning Producer John Cuniberti (Joe Satriani).
• Band also received local airplay on Live 105, KOME & KFOG (*featured on KFOG’s “Thursday Night Live” & also performed a 3-song live on-air set for “Acoustic Sunrise”).
• Toured the US extensively & shared the stage with Train, Toots & the Maytalls, Booker T & the MGs, The Smithereens, Sublime, Blessid Union of Souls, Mother Hips & Greg Kihn.
• Handled all contracts, finances, bookings, recordings, and US tour routing & logistics, including building a business plan and securing private investor funding for recordings, radio promotion & tour support.

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