I'm an entrepreneur and business executive who drives faster growth by raising a company's marketing, strategic, business development and ops effectiveness. I have consistently stayed at the forefront of the latest digital marketing and analytical innovations, from SEM/SEO to social media to targeted mobile to video and offline, and enjoy working with folks of all types to push thinking, foster teamwork, and find creative new solutions. I work with small growing companies as well as larger companies to break through issues to higher growth and profitability.After several early years in management consulting, my main entrepreneurial success was co-founding and running an early internet lead gen company, which we grew quickly to become a leading high-quality national lead service for insurance agents/agencies. It achieved a #80 ranking on the 2006 Inc. 500 and won the top spot in Deloitte's 2006 Georgia Technology Fast 50 Awards (and managed to stay at #4 in 2007) with high margins. It became part of Bankrate Insurance in 2010. I also took a lead role in exposing the growing paid search click fraud problem with BusinessWeek in their 10/2/06 cover story investigation and wrote a follow-on opinion piece proposing solutions. Following that I consulted for the C-level in leading online education companies late 2012-mid 2014, then helped launch and ran Farrago Comics, the first and only freemium platform for comic books and graphic novels. I became COO of GridQuire Labs focused on mobile ad targeting, was EIR at the Comcast Farm incubator in 2018-19, and during covid Chief Development Officer at agency Response Media. Spending time on consulting, attracting a global Formula E Championship race series to downtown Atlanta with AERO, and very lately on a new type of venture firm to support a type of underrepresented founder.Specialties: Executive advisory, digital marketing and lead generation, new business growth management, business strategy and development, negotiations, management of people and processes, data segmentation and analysis, online education, affiliate marketing, bottom line results.
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