Mike Welsh Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

Philadelphia, Pa

Founding member of Sales organization. CoreWeave Champion Award Winner. Player/Coach for AE + SDR team based on top performance, leadership qualities, and commitment to culture.

Successfully launched and now serve as member of the Board for a top mobile application in its category (Top 5 Sports app in 2020), achieving a 4.5-star rating across over 23,000 reviews. Leveraged entrepreneurial & business leadership along with deep knowledge of weather integrations in digital applications to deploy a very feature rich UI/UX and operate an extremely lean tech startup. Developed APIs and WebTools to enable licensing partnerships with some of the largest brands in the space and generate significant affiliate revenues. The proprietary algorithm powering BassForecast inputs all relevant weather data and analyzes the variables proven to affect Bass feeding behavior. The software outputs the BassForecast Rating for each day over the next 10 days, along with detecting weather driven seasonal feeding patterns, surfacing for users what lake locations to target and baits to use, for any location worldwide. This app will make you a better Bass Angler.

Created a new AccuWeather business unit for the Automotive industry by evangelizing driver centric use cases for increasingly autonomous vehicles, with the world’s largest automotive manufacturers. Forged relationships with cutting edge EV brands like Tesla, Byton & Rivian, while closing deals with OEMs such as Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover, & Volvo, representing millions in revenue and branded in-vehicle features on 10’s of millions of connected cars

Subject Matter Expert for Connected Car as part of our Emerging Platforms team. Leveraged cutting edge weather technology such as MinuteCast and hyper local severe weather warnings to elevate the standard of weather as a feature in the Connected Car, to bring an increased level of safety and technology to the automotive industry. Established relationships and strategic partnerships with leading Auto Manufacturers and Tier Ones from Detroit to Silicon Valley, and Tokyo to Munich, leveraging the global suite of products.

Accuweather Digital Media

Digital Media Content Sales and Business Development via cost-for-content and advertising-impression driven models within the Mobile (Apps and Web), Traditional Web, and Digital-Out-of-Home space. Achieved vast extension of the reach of AccuWeather apps and mobile website to the major mobile device manufacturers of the world as well as emerging global markets such as BRIC countries. Achieved critical top and bottom line revenue generating results year-over-year with excellent performance standards and work ethic. Proactively engaged prospects and partners at the OEM and Carrier levels with consultative approach to understand where the greatest growth opportunities exist. A driver in innovative solutions and continuous improvements. Led by performance with proven ability to speak to and influence throughout all organizational levels, and personality types, internally as well as externally.

Selected to spearhead the establishment of AccuWeather as a leading content provider in the emerging Digital-Out-of-Home space. Managed a team of Sales and Project Management resources to position AccuWeather as a widely available and easy to use content partner for the industry. Articulated and executed Trade Show and Marketing campaigns along with key partnership development to ultimately grow the new line of business to $1M+ in annual revenue.

In my initial role with AccuWeather, I focused on the cash sales based services of weather content for the traditional web. Initially trained and mentored with a consultative approach to new and existing clients, aiding the use of AccuWeather to improve "stickiness" and drive more page views and more advertising impressions. Quickly established capabilities and earned responsibility for increased book of business, ultimately producing and managing over $100,000 in recurring monthly revenue. Generated $800,000 - $1,000,000 in new business annually.