Jeff Williams Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc

Provide day-to-day management of our Healthcare business segment. VitalSource provides industry leading e-textbook and digital learning solutions to hundreds of publishers and educational institutions throughout the world. VitalSource is the preferred and most used learning resources platform in higher education today.

Ravenscroft (Raleigh, Nc); Harvey School (Katonah, Ny); Klht (Stamford, Ct)

*Designed curriculum and completed strategic lesson planning, providing real-world applications to encourage participation and foster student learning. Conducted research to procure online and hands-on tools and techniques to further student engagement. *Coached multiple sports and advised students on academic, athletic, social, and communications issues. Point person/liaison between students, parents and administrators.

Stamford, Ct

Web-based startup. Created and represented various sports league and team websites. *Initiated and closed company’s first accounts with Lancôme, Bank of America, and Sprint *Responsible for representing sponsorship assets of 16 NFL Teams, 3 NHL Teams, WTA, LPGA, and AFL to sports marketing marketplace

New York, Ny

Director, Corporate Accounts – GO.com (1999-2000) *Delivered revenue of $15 million by managing 7-person cross-functional team to service Disney’s largest Internet accounts (Bank of America, MasterCard, LowestFare.com) *Successfully planned and launched “GO Network” branded MasterCard credit card with corresponding awards programDistrict Sales Manager – Infoseek (1997-1998) [Acquired by Disney 11/98] *Hired and managed 3-person sales team, which was the highest revenue producing team (out of 18 teams) in 1998. Delivered revenue of $5.5 million, exceeding goal by 22%. *Initiated, closed, and managed sponsorships with AT&T ($6 million over 3 years) and VitaminShoppe Industries ($3 million over 2 years); and closed significant advertising deals ($2.3 million in total) with Dell Computers, SonyStation, Datek, and AutoByTel *Managed and nurtured relationships with key advertising agencies: Media.com (Grey Advertising), Y & R, i33/AppNet, Kirshenbaum Bond

New York, Ny

*Recruited to lead the initial ad sales business of weather.com and was part of the weather.com launch team. The organization went on to introduce many new firsts in the online advertising space including many that were later adopted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). *Hired and managed national sales force of 4 online Account Executives and managed the online sales activities of 30 cable Account Executives *Exceeded first-year revenue goals by 20% and account objectives by 25% *What was started by myself and a dozen others as a small off-shoot of the The Weather Channel companies was successfully sold to private equity for $3.6 billion in September 2008.

New York, Ny

*Created business plan to develop initial Internet services on behalf of Time Warner. Concepts ranged from producing add-on features for Pathfinder to creating PC-based, high bandwidth multimedia cable information services.*Developed advertising/sponsorship sales strategy and content partnership strategy

New York, Ny

Find/SVP was the world's largest private business library. Quick consulting and strategic research services were provided to companies in all industries. At its peak, Find/SVP had over 2,000 companies on retainer. *1991 Business Development Manager of the Year. Runner-up in 1990 and 1993. *Produced over $1.5 million in revenue helping company grow from $12 million (1987) to $20 million (1994). *Individually developed over 275 accounts helping the company grow from 1100 clients (1987) to 2200 clients (1994).