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Aggregate Knowledge Names Former TACODA Executive Christopher Marrow as Chief Revenue Officer
Former TACODA Senior Executive Brings Deep Experience and Leadership in Advertising Targeting and Revenue Generation
San Mateo, CA — June 17, 2008—Aggregate Knowledge, the leader of the Discovery category, today announced that Christopher Marrow has joined as chief revenue officer. Marrow was the former TACODA (acquired by AOL) vice president of western ad sales, and will now lead all revenue generation functions in the company including ad sales, customer success and implementation teams.
"We are extremely pleased that Chris Marrow is joining the Aggregate Knowledge executive leadership team. Chris has a 15-year proven track record of driving advertising growth and revenue and has deep experience in ad targeting and sales,” said Paul Martino, Aggregate Knowledge CEO and founder. “Chris will drive our momentum with Discovery Ads and provide our customers with an entirely new way to get their brand discovered by new audiences.”
Prior to joining Aggregate Knowledge, Marrow was vice president of western ad sales for TACODA, Inc., which was acquired by AOL in July 2007. At TACODA, Marrow was a key executive that set the standard for behavioral targeting advertising. While at TACODA, Marrow led the western US sales team and helped double sales revenue for three consecutive years. He also served a strategic role in marketing, product management and business development. Prior to TACODA, Marrow served in a business development leadership role at eBay. He also led sales for AltaVista, Digital Envoy, Respond.com, Flycast, and Engage Technologies. Marrow also served in marketing and sales for Ziff Davis Inc. and Softbank Interactive. Marrow holds a BA in business administration from the University of California.
“I am excited to join Aggregate Knowledge and drive growth and revenue with their innovative Discovery Ad offers,” said Marrow. “Pique™ Discovery Ads fill a huge gap for advertisers who are looking to mix the best of brand and direct response advertising and I look forward to delivering this offer to the world’s biggest brands and advertisers.”
About Aggregate Knowledge
Aggregate Knowledge Pique Discovery offerings enable customers to leverage real-time consumer interest into their advertising and marketing campaigns. Pique Discovery Ads are highly-dynamic ad units that show people what was bought, viewed and read after they see articles on publisher sites. Now products, ratings, reviews, customer stories, rich media, articles and brand elements can be dynamically incorporated into ads and updated based on real-time consumer interests. Aggregate Knowledge delivers more than one billion impressions a month to more than 100 million people. Pique Discovery Network customers include The Washington Post, CBS Mobile, BusinessWeek, LA Times, The Health Central Network, Sony Style, drugstore.com, SmartBargains, ShopLocal and Vinfolio. Aggregate Knowledge is funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures and First Round Capital.
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