John Edwards Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio Area

Communica offers advertising and marketing communications services to regional and national clientele in such industries as manufacturing, health care, telecommunication, education, financial services, and consumer products. Personal areas of focus include evaluating and deploying our company's marketing technology stack to deliver state-of-the-art digital services to our clients, as well as developing potential new business opportunities designed to meet the changing needs of our customers and prospects. In addition, I work with clients to help them develop and implement sales best-practices and processes. Platform expertise includes marketing automation, CRM, social media, content development, and more.

Created, funded and launched ListAfterList.com with three other partners. CEO with full product, marketing and P&L accountability.

Columbus, Ohio Area

I served in a number of roles, including Board Member and Board President, for the USO of Central & Southern Ohio. The USO strengthens America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country throughout their service to the nation. The USO-CSO supports our local active duty military and their families across 65 counties in Central/Southern OH, No. KY and WV. We offer lounges in the Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati airports, as well as a lounge at the MEPS (military enlistment processing center) and our Airman's Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In addition, we provide our troops and their families with access to a wide range of family readiness programs and services, camps, sporting events, entertainment and much more. We work closely with each branch of the military to align and integrate our financial and volunteer resources with their needs and mission, both at home and as they deploy and return. I continue to serve the USO CSO on their Fundraising Committee.

The Pursuit Group helps business-to-business enterprises more successfully pursue revenue from their base of prospects and customers. It does so by implementing best practices sales processes, marketing automation and tools, and content development services to create high-growth companies.The Pursuit Group is a founding member of the Business Growth Alliance, which offers capital access and growth expertise to companies through a combination of investment banking and business consulting services.

As consultant to Examiner.com through The Pursuit Group, tasked with managing the rapid expansion of Examiner.com in the Columbus marketplace, including recruitment of writers and sponsors.

Responsible for running candidate acquisition and e-commerce programs for the leading provider of career resume services to the world’s top 60 MBA programs. Re-launched their web site and integrated Salesforce.com and ExactTarget into their end-to-end lead-generation and customer marketing protocols. Implemented promotional outreach programs with 1,800 of the world’s largest employers of elite MBA candidates and all of the top MBA Career Services offices.

Directed various editorial and marketing teams ranging in size from 8 to 20 people who managed all end-user content and promotion for the home pages and vertical content categories of Netscape.com, CompuServe.com, the Netscape and CompuServe ISP services, and private label Internet portal sites for Wal-Mart, Apple, and HP/Compaq. Post-merger, led the integration of CNN and Time Inc. brands into the AOL Properties network and managed the licensing, royalty and revenue sharing arrangements between the brands.

Extensive content management experience directing (at one time or another) the various channel content areas on CompuServe including news, weather, sports, travel, shopping, search, etc. Also, extensive business development experience negotiating dozens of OEM, distribution and content-licensing deals with major Internet and technology brands including CNN.com, TIME.com, Associated Press, Reuters New Media, Weather Channel.com, Money Magazine.com, IBM, Dell, Apple, HP, Compaq, Lotus, and Computer Associates. Finally, product development experience helping to identify, create and deploy a variety of web-based products for news, financial, personalization, forum & community, video, search, and cd-rom users for CompuServe and Netscape.

Mba, Marketing & Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing

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