24/7 Real Media, a pioneer in interactive marketing and technology, has announced an extensive series of global appointments and internal promotions to drive the company's expansive domestic and international growth, and reaffirm its commitment to the highest levels of sales professionalism, customer service, support and product management.
"Every facet of our business is growing rapidly, and we needed to expand our global talent roster to perpetuate the significant momentum that we generated in 2005," said David J. Moore, 24/7 Real Media's chairman and CEO. "Today's appointments and promotions demonstrate our ability to attract and retain the industry's best and brightest talent, and reaffirms our commitment to creating and providing the most innovative and effective online marketing solutions backed by industry-leading client service, support and technologies."
In New York, 24/7 Real Media made two key new hires in its product management division - Deepak Srinivasan as Vice President, Product Management; and Dwight Green as Director, Data & Direct Marketing. Deepak joins 24/7 Real Media from Reliance Infocomm, where he was involved in planning and engineering a multi-million home Video-over-IP rollout. His new responsibilities include coordinating product management, product marketing, and product innovation for 24/7 Real Media worldwide. Green brings a wealth of strategic consulting, target marketing and business planning experience for media research, information services and software companies to 24/7 Real Media, where he will lead the company's data and direct marketing efforts in the interactive marketing space. Additionally, the corporate office appointed Alissa Kaplan, a former corporate associate with the international law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, as Vice President and Associate General Counsel.
In London, Rob Wilson, who led the extraordinary UK growth of 24/7 Search in 2005, has been appointed as Managing Director of 24/7 Real Media UK. Chris Gawor will join Wilson as Commercial Director of the UK operation. Gawor brings extensive experience in sales and management from his tenure at Associated New Media, Wanadoo and NewsCorp's News International. He will be responsible for expanding 24/7 Real Media's UK behavioral targeting network - 24/7 OnTarget - and for the continued growth there of the company's industry-leading ad serving and management technology, Open AdStream(R).
In Tokyo, Akira Yoshikai brings extensive Internet and Search experience to his new post of Executive Vice President at K.K. 24-7 Search, 24/7 Real Media's joint venture with Japan's largest advertising agency, Dentsu. Yoshikai began his career at Dentsu in 1989, and was most recently responsible for running its Internet and SEM business development and media planning divisions. His responsibilities include overseeing all operations of the joint venture and reporting to President Jae Woo Chung. K.K. 24-7 Search has also hired seven new full-time employees who will report to Yoshikai.
Other US-based executive promotions include:
-- Ari Bluman, Senior Vice President, US Sales and Operations
-- Matt Kain, Senior Vice President, Business Development
-- John Piccone, Vice President, East Coast Sales
-- Robert Hess, Vice President MidWest/West Coast Sales
-- Ron Roccuzzo, Vice President, US Ad Operations
-- Noah Schankler, Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
-- Chris Paul, Senior Director Client Services
"All of these people are at the top in their chosen fields," added Moore. "We are privileged to have them with us, and are confident that their contributions will keep 24/7 Real Media at the forefront of innovation and service, and enable us to continue attracting industry professionals of the highest caliber from around the globe."
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