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VigLink

VigLink was the first company to apply display advertising techniques including real-time bidding and historical purchase behavior to in-content commerce links.

At the time of its acquisition by Sovrn, the company was pushing ~$1B in shopping spend into retail and yielding $50m in commissions to creators.

The team established demand-side partnerships with 75,000 advertisers including Amazon, Walmart, eBay Nike, and built a proprietary network of 2 million publishers including Affirm, StyleCaster, DesignMilk, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Meredith.

Head of Marketing

2016- 2018

  • Completed a successful transaction to Sovrn after pitching GTM strategy to 93 potential acquirers and evaluating four LOIs

  • Built operational processes and established KPI's for functional stakeholders to track and report on bi-weekly. Consistently led the Marketing Team to over-perform through our organic marketing channels, resulting in revenue contribution equal to sales adds

  • Facilitated and executed a full brand refresh pre-acquisition in just three months; included an updated logo, website, pitch decks, collateral, brand guidelines, animations, videos, and email templates

  • Led diligence and GTM for the acquisitions of LinkSmart and Prosperent, successfully retaining all key employees

Senior Product Marketing Manager

2014- 2016

  • Built a company-wide product marketing strategy and served as a project manager between key stakeholders to ensure the transparent flow of communication between teams. Owned the release roadmap to build adoption and growth across multiple markets

  • Partnered with Product leaders to build a competitive landscape to identify and pursue market expansion opportunities

  • Aggregated customer feedback and derived trends from call notes to distribute company-wide on a monthly cadence

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