Speaker Profiles

Jonathan Allen joined Incisive Media as director of Search Engine Watch in December 2009. Previously, Jonathan worked as a search marketing specialist for Incisive on leading B2B print/online publications and job boards in the legal, tech, and finance sectors (including Legal Week, TheInquirer.net, V3.co.uk, Accountancy Age Jobs, and Computing Careers). Before Incisive, Allen worked as an SEO consultant and also co-founded Moblog:tech, an award-winning mobile social networking software provider and owner of the mobile social network Moblog. In 2008, Moblog:tech's build of Channel 4's The Big Art Mob won the community engagement award at MediaGuardian Awards for Innovation (MEGAS), The Royal Television Society's On The Move Award, and 3 BAFTA nominations.

Matt Bailey is the president and founder of SiteLogic, a website marketing consultancy, and has been training businesses about website marketing since 1997. He speaks at over 30 international conferences, seminars, and training sessions each year. Seminar attendees consistently rave about his conversational, entertaining speaking style and his ability to explain high-level search marketing concepts in a way that even non-techies understand. Bailey is the primary trainer and developer for the Direct Marketing Association's search engine optimization certification program, and the trainer for its two-day website marketing seminar.

Chris Boggs, a specialist in search engine optimization and paid search advertising, has worked in search engine marketing since 2000. He joined Brulant from Avenue A | Razorfish in 2007 as manager of the SEO team, and Rosetta acquired Brulant in 2008. He has worked with organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies within all major industries including health care, financial services, consumer products, and retail. Boggs is experienced in performing and directing hands-on SEO, from keyword research to content and link development, and guiding technical implementations with e-commerce platforms.

Guillaume Bouchard is co-founder and president of NVI, a Montreal-based agency specializing in digital performance strategies. Founded in 2004, NVI has quickly become the largest web agency specializing in search, SEO, and social media in Canada. NVI builds viable revenue models by developing and marketing web platforms and serves a diversified portfolio: retail, B2B, finance and banking, CPGs, and telecoms. Bouchard is a guest columnist at searchenginewatch.com, and he is a co-founder of and journalist for the French-language blog Go-referencement.org, a leading resource on SEO and e-marketing. He is a proud self-made business owner who practices what he preaches.

Brent Chaters has over a decade of digital online experience, working with and guiding fortune 500 companies to understand how to measure and improve their digital experience. He has worked with senior executives and managers in industries such as consumer electronics, CPG, mobile communications, automotive manufacturing, financial services, entertainment, fashion, and leisure and resort. Chaters is the author of Mastering Search Analytics: Measuring SEO, SEM and Site Search, and occasionally writes for Search Engine Journal.

Thom Craver runs all web and social presences at the Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been coding HTML since 1993 and has been involved in search marketing since 1999. Craver led one of the first web marketing firms in Rochester, NY, for eight years until it successfully merged with an interactive agency. He consults to businesses on search marketing, carrying lessons learned into his guest lectures at RIT. He is a regular contributor to Search Engine Watch, writes a monthly column for ComputerLink Magazine, and has authored training manuals published by SVI Training Products and Technical Learning Resources.

Jeremy Evans, a veteran of both internet marketing and application development, joined Marin in 2010. As director of strategic accounts, he oversees global operations for Marin's largest global clients, including Hotels.com, Vistaprint, and Wyndham Resorts. Before joining Marin, Evans spent four years managing paid search, affiliate, and display marketing for Avid Life Media, owners of a large group of dating and social networking sites. Prior to that, he worked as a developer of web applications and software for four years. He also taught information architecture and coding at Humber College.

Elazar Gabay specializes in ROI maximization and has expertise in e-commerce, SEO, and SEM. He has worked for many prestigious organizations in Canada and worldwide. Clients have included The Algo Group, Bell Canada, IBM, MSN, Nike, Lands’ End, H&M, and Mate1. He has also developed close collaborative relationships with Google, MSN/Bing, and others. In the very competitive market of Internet dating, Gabay propelled Mate1.com to the highest ranks of paid search traffic among its competitors, and in the process generated an impressive ROI.

Andrew Goodman is founder and president of Toronto-based Page Zero Media, a full-service marketing agency that focuses on paid search campaigns as well as a variety of custom digital marketing programs. Clients include Direct Energy, Canon, MIT, and BLR. He is also co-founder of Traffick.com, an award-winning industry commentary site. Goodman is the author of Winning Results with Google AdWords and is frequently quoted in the business press. He has acted as program chair for the SES Toronto conference and has spoken and moderated at countless SES events since 2002.

James Green joined Magnetic in October 2011 as chief executive officer charged with driving overall company expansion and building out Magnetic’s search retargeting infrastructure. He began his career in the entertainment industry, spending eight years with The Walt Disney Company and rising to general manager of the Japanese market. From Disney, he moved to Pixar Animation Studios, where he worked for Steve Jobs as VP of marketing and new business development. In 1998, he became a founding partner and CEO of Sabela Media, an Internet ad serving company. Sabela Media sold for $70 million to 24/7 Real Media, where Green served as president of technology solutions. In 2000, Green became CEO of GiantBear, where he successfully launched new products with major carriers before selling the business to InfoSpace in 2002. After GiantBear, he became CEO of PVI, a virtual advertising company, which he took private in 2003 before it was sold to Cablevison in 2005. Green then joined Giant Realm, a vertical ad network, as CEO in 2007; he sold the company to Burst Media in 2009.

Mike Grehan is global VP, content, at Incisive Media, publisher of Search Engine Watch and ClickZ, and producer of the SES international conference series. Previously, he worked as a search marketing consultant with a number of international agencies, handling global clients such as SAP and Motorola. Recognized as a leading search marketing expert, Grehan came online in 1995 and is the author of numerous books and white papers on the subject. He is chair of the SES advisory board and in March 2010 was elected to SEMPO's board of directors.

Jenny Halasz is the owner of JLH Marketing, Inc., a consultancy that specializes in search strategy, with an emphasis on intuitive user experience and successful customer acquisition. She is knowledgeable in all areas of online marketing and has worked with dozens of blue chip clients as well as small enterprises and startups. With experience in SEO and PPC, social marketing, usability, conversion optimization, affiliate marketing, and analytics, Halasz understands the big picture of any client’s marketing needs. She develops cohesive strategies based on data points and client priorities across all aspects of a client’s business.

Dax Hamman has considerable experience in all things digital including campaign strategy, media planning, usability, affiliate marketing, and email marketing. Prior to Chango, he founded and led iCrossing's global display media group, a role that led to the development of Performance Display, a data driven method for building ROI-oriented campaigns. The highly successful methodology utilized the interplay between search and display to its fullest.

Jim Hedger is a writer and broadcaster specializing in organic SEO and search marketing. Jim works with partner Alan K'necht as a content-focused SEO and search marketing consultant. He is also a writer, WebmasterRadio.FM show host and interviewer.

Jim has been involved in the SEO field since the days of the dinosaurs. He felt like he lost a personal friend the day Disney went "ol' Yeller" on Infoseek. Over the course of his career, Jim has shared drinks with Jeeves the Butler, tossed sticks to that sock-puppet dog from Pets.com and walked away from a staring contest with Googlebot confidently declaring a tie. When not traveling between conferences, Jim lives with a perpetually annoyed cat named Hypertext and can often be seen riding around Toronto, Victoria or Seattle on a very fast red bike.

Andrew Holden is a local and mobile SEO expert with over 10 years of experience consulting and starting successful mobile and web companies like Weever Apps Inc. and CartaNova Web Design & Marketing.

Danny Iny is the author (with Guy Kawasaki, Brian Clark, and many others) of Engagement from Scratch! He is also a respected authority on marketing and business strategy whose work has been featured on blogs like Copyblogger, Problogger, ThinkTraffic, MarketingProfs, KISSMetrics, and FreelanceSwitch. A lifelong entrepreneur, Iny has run and worked with dozens of companies, ranging from small businesses to startups to major companies like Nokia and Google.

Mark Jackson joined the interactive marketing fray in early 2000. His journey began with Lycos/Wired Digital, where he managed several integrated marketing programs with a focus in the finance vertical. He then worked with AOL/Time Warner on cross-platform marketing programs. After the bubble burst, Jackson established an interactive marketing agency and has since cultivated it into one of the most respected SEO firms in the US. He is a board member of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association and a member of the Dallas/Fort Worth Interactive Marketing Association. He spent several years in traditional marketing (radio, television, and print) prior to venturing into all things web.

Greg Jarboe is president and co-founder of SEO-PR, which provides search engine optimization, online public relations, online video marketing, and social media marketing services. He is the author of YouTube and Video Marketing and a contributor to Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment. He is profiled in Michael Miller’s Online Marketing Heroes and has been interviewed on a variety of search and social marketing topics by Bruce Clay Blog, Online Marketing Blog, ReelSEO, State of Search, WebmasterRadio.fm, and WebProNews. Jarboe is on the faculty of the Rutgers Center of Management Development and Market Motive.

Jeremiah Johnston has served as general counsel at Sedo (www.sedo.com) since 2004 and represents the company as a founding member of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), sitting on the Board of Directors in the role of association president. Johnston is a 2008 "Up & Coming Lawyer" honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and was chosen as one of the Boston Business Journal's "Forty Under Forty" for 2009. Domainer's Magazine named Johnston its domain educator of the year for 2010 for helping spread the word on the value of domain names as Sedo spokesperson during his tenure as company COO.

Sundeep Kapur has been assisting organizations with their converged channel marketing strategies since 1990. From direct marketing to digital to converged, he is a passionate teacher who works with businesses across multiple industries, helping them to enable technology and services to brand, and personalize and speak to consumers more effectively. He is an industry-recognized expert who has delivered keynotes, run panels, and delivered “relevant, inspirational, and outstanding” education for organizations around the world. Kapur is also an avid user of social media, having leveraged words, pictures, and video into a conversational digital book. His daily dose of best practices can be found at www.EmailYogi.com, where he has more than 1,200 articles on best practices.

Avinash Kaushik is the digital marketing evangelist for Google and the co-founder of Market Motive Inc.

Through his blog, Occam’s Razor, and his best-selling books, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day and Web Analytics 2.0, Kaushik has become recognized as an authoritative voice on how marketers, executive teams, and industry leaders can leverage data to fundamentally reinvent their digital existence. Kaushik puts a common-sense framework around the often frenetic world of web analytics and combines that with the philosophy that investing in talented analysts is the key to long-term success. He passionately advocates customer centricity and leveraging bleeding-edge competitive intelligence techniques.

Kaushik has received rave reviews for bringing his energetic, inspiring, and practical insights to companies like Unilever, Dell, Time Warner, Vanguard, Porsche, and IBM. He has delivered keynotes at a variety of global conferences, including SES Conference & Expo, Monaco Media Forum, iCitizen, JMP Innovators’ Summit, The Art of Marketing, and Web 2.0.

Acting on his passion for teaching, Kaushik has lectured at major universities such as Stanford University, University of Virginia, University of California—Los Angeles, and University of Utah.

Kaushik received the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year Award from the American Statistical Association, and the 2011 Most Influential Industry Contributor Award from the Web Analytics Association.

A search marketing industry thought leader, Anne Kenney co-authored the first book on international SEO and PPC, Global Search Engine Marketing: Fine-Tuning Your International Search Engine Results. After providing search engine consulting to hundreds of companies—including Hearst Newspapers, Philips Lifeline, and Dunkin Donuts—and launching dotcoms Zillow and Avvo, she formed an international online marketing consortium with Nordic eMarketing in Reykjavik, London, Stockholm, Rome, and Beijing. Kennedy was a founding member of the board of directors for Helium.com, acquired by publishing giant R.R. Donnelly in 2011.

A serial entrepreneur, Zephrin Lasker successfully launched two startups prior to Pontiflex. He founded Pontiflex because he wanted to help people connect with companies from whom they actually want to hear. In 2011, over 35 million people used Signup Ads by Pontiflex to connect with the brands they like. Lasker also oversees the development and execution of the Pontiflex AdLeads platform, which extends signup ads to brands, local businesses, and mobile apps worldwide. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is a regular contributing blogger for Forbes.

Matt Lawson is responsible for worldwide branding, demand generation, and product marketing at Marin Software, provider of the leading platform used by advertisers and agencies to manage search, display, and social advertising. Prior to Marin, he was an executive at Spock Networks, a venture-backed people search engine. Previously, he held marketing and product leadership positions at Coremetrics, one of the early innovators in web analytics and paid search marketing. Lawson authors a regular column for Search Engine Land, and written articles for Search Engine Watch, MediaPost, Adotas, and other publications.

Kevin Lee has been an acknowledged search engine marketing expert since 1995. He translates his years of SEM expertise into Didit’s proprietary Maestro search campaign technology. His column for ClickZ, “Paid Search Strategies,” is read by thousands. He is a founding board member of SEMPO and its first elected chairman, member of the DMA Search Engine Marketing Council, and member of the IAB Search Committee. The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News, and other press quote him regularly. Lee lectures at leading industry conferences and at NYU, Columbia, Fordham, and Pace.

Judith Lewis was one of the judges for the inaugural UK Search Awards and is the coordinator for London Girl Geek Dinners. She is a specialist online marketer, with skills in SEO, PPC, social media marketing, and other digital marketing techniques. Her clients include Google, Amadeus, and Mimecast. Working in search and online marketing since 1996, she has extensive experience in performing hands-on SEO from keyword research through to content development and link building. She has also worked extensively in social media strategies and PPC campaign creation and management. Prior to joining Beyond in April 2010, Lewis worked at i-level after working in-house across a variety of sectors including retail/e-commerce, high-tech, and publishing.

Sage Lewis is president of SageRock Digital Marketing, a leader in web marketing since 1999 offering search engine optimization, paid search marketing, social media marketing, and analytics services. He speaks nationally with SES and other prominent online marketing organizations. He writes as an expert for searchenginewatch.com in the promotion and link building section of the site. He is a highly dynamic speaker who offers a depth of knowledge only possible through his decade of experience in the web marketing industry.

Ian McAnerin is a well-known expert in international search marketing, and the founder and CEO of McAnerin International Inc. He is a moderator for several search-related forums, and is widely published both online and in print. He has authored several popular SEO related tools and has a patent pending for a search related geolocation technology.

Josh McCoy possesses a strong passion for understanding and executing successful search marketing campaigns. As the online landscape evolves, his years of expertise in search marketing help him to effectively harness all areas of online marketing including SEO, social media, and local search to create an encapsulating approach to search engine marketing ideation. Before joining Vizion Interactive, McCoy worked with 15miles in search engine optimization and local search solutions. He writes a monthly SEO column at SearchEngineWatch.com and manages the Kansas City Search Engine Marketing Association.

Matt McGowan joined Incisive Media in 2006 and is responsible for the North American business in addition to overseeing all marketing, sales, editorial, and operations for ClickZ.com, ClickZ.asia, SearchEngineWatch.com, and the multinational SES Conference and Expo series. Prior to joining Incisive, he was VP at PropertyRoom.com, where he oversaw all sales, marketing, and operations for the US-based auction services company. Earlier in his career in San Francisco, McGowan developed a go-to-market online strategy for the multinational publishing house Pearson Plc.; before that, he worked on the institutional desk for Schwab Capital Markets and Trading, a division of Charles Schwab Inc., in New York and San Francisco.

Bryson Meunier is the primary architect of Resolution Media’s natural search product and ClearTarget Digital Behavior Analysis. He currently works with the content team to help drive SEO strategy and execution for Resolution Media clients, and to help clients adopt emerging technologies when they are relevant to their business. Meunier has helped some of the world’s top brands—including Lowes, Briggs & Stratton, Apple, FedEx, and Groupon—achieve success in mobile marketing, social media, and SEO. He writes a monthly column for Search Engine Land as part of their Mobile Monday series and is writing a book on Mobile SEO. You find additional information and articles on his blog.

Krista Neher is the CEO of Boot Camp Digital, a marketing consultancy that emphasizes the creative use of technology and social media to grow brands online. The company has provided marketing solutions to Fortune 500 companies as well as startups and small businesses. Neher brings a unique combination of traditional marketing skills and experience, technical knowledge, and creative new marketing approaches, with an emphasis on online and social media marketing. She worked at Procter and Gamble for over five years in sales, finance, and marketing. While there, she worked on some of the biggest brands and on some of the largest and most successful product launches. Prior to Boot Camp Digital, Neher was the VP of marketing for technology startup Photrade.com. She is an active blogger and social media enthusiast.

Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, specializing in Internet marketing consulting, training, and implementation services. A veteran Internet marketer, Odden has consulted for clients such as HP, McKesson, Gorkana, Marketo and StrongMail. He is the author of Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing, and has been cited by The Economist, U.S. News & World Report, and Fortune Magazine. He writes a monthly column for ClickZ called Social Media Smarts and edits Online Marketing Blog, rated a top marketing blog by Advertising Age, Social Media Examiner and Junta42. He also conducts seminars for companies, and regularly presents at marketing, media, and public relations industry conferences world-wide.

Helen M. Overland assists a team of account directors and managers to help organizations grow their market share using the online channel. She combines her tech savvy with a strong passion for all things search. She sharpened her skills in the trenches of e-commerce and grew revenues steadily through the dotcom burst. In the past, she has generated 100% YOY increases in sales on tight marketing budgets of less than 5%. Specializing in the intelligent application of emerging trends, Overland is experienced in maximizing campaign returns through identifying fresh opportunities and careful analysis of the results. Known around the blogosphere as semlady, she blogs at www.searchenginepeople.com/blog and regularly speaks at marketing and technology conferences.

Marc Poirier is co-founder and VP of marketing of Acquisio, where he leads all sales and marketing activities. Prior to Acquisio, he was founder and president at Canalytics, a boutique SEM and SEO agency that was widely regarded as one of the most active Google Analytics Authorized Consultants in the world. He has held various e-marketing management positions at technology and software companies including Komunik, an email marketing software vendor, and Cognicase, a Canadian leading IT consulting and systems integration firms; he was also a strategic consultant at U.S.-based marchFIRST. He often speaks at events including SES, SMX, Ad:Tech, TFM&A, and OMMA, and writes columns and articles for various publications including Search Engine Watch, Visibility Magazine, SES Magazine, and the Acquisio blog.

Garry Przyklenk is an expert in lead generation, search engine marketing, web analytics, and social media marketing. He has successfully championed creative marketing campaigns and executed on actionable insights in several vertical markets including media, insurance, technology, and telecommunications. As Manager of Analytics Implementation at TD Bank Financial Group, Przyklenk leads a successful group of web analytics implementation professionals that create online measurement solutions that yield actionable insights for key business stakeholders. He also runs a successful online marketing blog and web analytics blog.

Jeff Quipp has been engaged in the search industry for more than a decade, and was one of the first people in Canada to recognize the Internet as an emerging marketing channel. Before launching Search Engine People, he spent time within the Bell group of companies managing and launching North America’s first speech recognition–enabled portal. A speaker at numerous search marketing and social media conferences, he has a passion for understanding the impact of various types of content on social media, SEO, and visitor behavior. He blogs frequently at SearchEnginePeople.com, writes for Search Engine Watch and the Search Marketing Standard, is a moderator for the search industry’s social media site Sphinn.com, and sits on the Search Committee of the IAB Canada.

Gil Reich founded Managing Greatness, which helps companies connect with the people searching for their products and services. He was a founding member of Answers.com, and as VP of product management led the company’s SEO initiatives. He helped Answers.com become a top 20 internet site. Reich is a popular speaker at search conferences and has spoken in Seattle, New York, Las Vegas, London, Toronto, and Jerusalem. He shares his thoughts on search marketing and web strategy on the Managing Greatness blog.

Laura Roth is conference and program manager for the SES Conference and Expo series, responsible for programming the SES agendas and speaker acquisition with the content team. She is also a resident blogger for SES. Before joining SES, Laura worked for three years in Incisive Media's London office, programming content for conferences, exhibitions, and seminars across various portfolios including information, publishing, HR, and legal events. She has also managed social media marketing campaigns for several event brands.

Nicky Senyard is the co-founder and President of Share Results, a Montreal-based online marketing company specializing in affiliate marketing software, affiliate network support, and affiliate program management. A native of Australia, and an entrepreneur with a background in public relations, Senyard is a highly sought-after speaker and service provider in the affiliate marketing industry.

Crispin Sheridan established and runs the search practice at SAP for the shared goals of awareness, lead generation, and sales. He is responsible for paid and organic search and has driven SAP’s strategy to harness the power of the channel to drive efficiency in lead generation across SAP’s ecosystem. He manages the centralized and globally funded search practice at SAP with both in-house and agency support. Successes include integration with SAP’s primary Facebook page and the deployment of “AddThis” across SAP.com globally. He is a frequent guest speaker at SES, the e-Metrics Summit, and ad:Tech, and a member of Google’s B2B Technology Council. He writes a monthly SEO column for ClickZ.

Ezra Silverton became involved with the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. In 1997, he founded the website services company 9th sphere, now an award-winning, full-service firm. His primary role is that of website architect, in which he strategically plans website architecture and oversees overall quality assurance. His approach is very tactical, based on both Internet marketing and architectural best practices. Clients, most of whom are based in Canada, include sophisticated e-commerce, business-to-business, and service-based organizations. Silverton has been interviewed by major television and radio networks, written many articles in well-known publications, and presented at leading conferences on the topics of website architecture, SEO, and other Internet marketing and website best practices.

Jennifer Slegg began as a freelance writer, and turned to writing content for the web in 1998. She has created numerous content-rich and community-based sites in niche markets. As a result, she is well-versed in the many ways to monetize content online. She writes about many search industry and social media topics on her blog, JenniferSlegg.com. Acknowledged as the leading expert on the Google AdSense contextual advertising program, she runs JenSense, a blog dealing exclusively with contextual advertising. Her unique style brings insight to both publishers and advertisers of contextual advertising programs.

Gregg Stewart is president of 15miles, a full-service marketing agency specializing in digital local solutions, headquartered in Connecticut. 15miles is the world’s largest local-search agency developing online and mobile solutions for businesses of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies. He has written for ClickZ and Search Engine Watch (visit the archive for his SEW articles). He is also the president of 2nd Act Local Marketing.

Terry Van Horne has been developing and marketing websites since the early 90s in various positions including internet marketing manager for one of Canada’s largest real estate developers; SEO for an award-winning real estate search engine; and marketing manager for e-commerce stores in the apparel and musical instruments. In 2007 he developed a YouTube Marketing Strategy, and to date those 300+ videos have received over 18,000,000 downloads. He is a partner with David Harry in Reliable SEO, a search and social media marketing agency, and the award-winning SEO Training Dojo, a learning community. Van Horne is director of SEO Dojo Radio and co-hosts two hour long podcasts. He founded SeoPros.org, the first consumer advocacy organization for purchasers of search engine optimization, and is currently a director of the NFP organization OSEOP that grew out of it.

An award-winning speaker whose presentations are as entertaining as they are informative, Matt Van Wagner is the president and founder of Find Me Faster, a paid search engine marketing agency in Nashua, NH. He has served as technical editor/advisor for three leading books on paid search: Winning Results with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing Handbook, and Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day. He is a contributing courseware developer for the SEMPO Institute.

Lyndsay Walker has been working in online development since 1996 and specializing in search since 2005. Her experience has taken her across Canada, and she has worked both in house and for agencies in a variety of industries, including finance, travel, and e-commerce. She is currently creating an in-house SEO program at the TD Bank Group.

Marty Weintraub is the founder & CEO of aimClear®, an online search and social marketing agency that has managed Facebook ad campaigns generating over 30 billion impressions internationally. Client credits include MarthaStewart.com, Siemens, Second Life, and other global brands. Weintraub is the author of Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques, and has written for respected Internet publications including Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Roundtable. aimClear's blog has been cited among Technorati's Top 10 Small Business Blogs, Cison's Top Ten Social Media Blogs, and PRWeb's 25 Essential Public Relations Blogs You Should Be Reading.

Jason Wells is the CEO of ContactPoint. The firm’s new product, LogMyCalls, represents the next generation of intelligent call tracking. Prior to joining ContactPoint, Wells served as the senior vice president of Sony Pictures Television International, where he led the creation and international expansion of Sony’s mobile business line from London. He managed a global sales and product organization across Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America. Before relocating to London, he was a vice president for Sony digital sales and marketing in Los Angeles. Prior to Sony, Wells was vice president of sales and business development for Handango, Inc., where he managed relationships with clients like Microsoft, Motorola, Sprint, and Verizon.