Tag: Sales Director

Singapore – Amidst continuing its growth in Singapore and the broader Asia-Pacific region, marketing technology developer Broadsign has appointed Veronica Ong as its new sales director in Southeast Asia. She will be responsible for supporting the regional sales team in strengthening Broadsign’s partner offering and growing its portfolio of DOOH clients across the region.

Ong brings with her a strong background in OOH and sales. In her previous roles, she led the team of JCDecaux’s strategic and airport advertising accounts where she collaborated with major global brands buying ad space on the OOH leader’s network. She also managed sales for all media platforms for street furniture, retail malls, cinema, and large format advertising in the Singapore region.

Even before joining JCDecaux, she held a range of sales roles across multiple advertising mediums, including publishing at SPH Magazines in the fashion and beauty division.

Remi Roques, general manager at Broadsign, commented, “We’re incredibly thrilled to have Veronica join the team, especially at a very exciting time when we’re expanding our platform’s capabilities to support customer growth in 2023 and beyond.”

Roques added, “Her industry experience and passion for OOH are a tremendous asset to our team, and will help us continue reaching our goals.”

Meanwhile, Ong commends Broadsign for its offering and customer service which she personally experienced on the client side of her former role.

She added, “It has built the best OOH platform available for media operators of any size, and I look forward to working with the team to continue growing the business.”

Gurgaon, India – Performance marketing company DangleAds has appointed Rakesh Kumar as its newest director of sales, where he will be responsible for building the mobile performance marketing business, as well as being involved in mobile strategy, team development and crafting a roadmap for the growth of mobile business.

The strategic hire in the business team is in line with DangleAds renewed focus on its global expansion and brand building across the digital ecosystem to drive business growth, customer acquisition, product innovation and greater adoption of performance marketing.

Kumar joins DangleAds with over 13 years of extensive experience in digital marketing, content, programmatic, premium audience monetization, and other marketing experiences. He was previously associated with Xapads Media, where he was positioned as AGM Sales, as well as working with Admobly, ValueFirst Digital and Httpool.

Speaking about his appointment, he said, “I am really excited to be a part of DangleAds Technology. I am looking forward to the challenge that comes along with this opportunity and to being able to contribute to its growth by bringing new business with the help of my unique perspective, wide networking and more than a decade long experience across the digital spectrum.” 

He added, “We are in the business of helping our partners succeed and to ensure that we have made significant advancements in data science, technology and processes to reach the desired goal.”

Meanwhile, Pulkit Narayan, founder and CEO at DangleAds, commented, “We are expanding into global markets and have also increased our product portfolio. We are on a resilient progression trail and with such promising progress, we felt the need to strengthen our business team that could lead us to desired future campaigns and success.” 

He added, “We require good talent who can help grow our business many folds and provide us great market penetration in different vertices. I am delighted to have Rakesh in my team and confident that his rich experience and skill – set would help us in building DangleAds as a market leader in performance marketing and lead us on a growth path in India and abroad.”

Sydney, Australia – Out-of-home (OOH) media company JCDecaux in Australia has promoted Morgan Hannaford and Gemma Watkins to the roles of sales director in the state of New South Wales.

Hannaford will take on responsibility for direct clients and independent agency groups, while Watkins will lead the teams working with global agency holding groups.

Gemma Watkins takes up her role immediately, whileMorgan Hannaford will commence in January 2022 upon her return from parental leave.

Hannaford’s 13 years in media have been aligned to delivering customer solutions in the direct and independent agency space. Meanwhile, Morgan’s flair for collaboration and results has driven key partnerships with the Independent Media Agencies Australia (IMAA), and some of Australia’s biggest brands.

John Harris, who was recently promoted to the role of general manager for sales at JCDecaux Australia, commented, “Gemma [Hannaford] is the ultimate team player, who leads by example. A former media salesperson of the year award winner, Gemma has a natural ability to problem solve for her clients, and consistently drives high levels of customer satisfaction with experience working on key holding groups Mediabrands, Omnicom and dentsu.”

He added, “Morgan’s energy and professionalism is a huge asset for JCDecaux. She is driven to achieve results for her customers and has nurtured a group of highly talented salespeople in such an important area for the business.”

Harris further stated that the two appointees have market-leading high-performance reputation, with a connected culture mentality at the core of their strengths, adding that they are truly excited to see them lead the NSW sales team.

JCDecaux Australia has seen a lineup of appointments this year, including Amanda Munce as head of campaign execution and Oliver Newton as chief sales officer.

Hong Kong – Following the company’s recent expansion to Australia, global audience and local intelligence company Adsquare has announced that it will now be expanding its presence to Hong Kong. Along with the endeavor, the company has also appointed Melvin Wong to be the company’s sales director for North Asia.

Through his new role, he will lead top-line growth across all company solutions, with direct oversight of the company’s sales and client relationships in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

Furthermore, he will foster existing relationships and will identify new accounts with a potentially significant impact on Adsquare´s long-term success.

Prior to his recent position, he has worked with global media platform Teads where he demonstrated a progressive 6-year-growth, starting as business developer in New York City to finally become Teads´s first sales manager in Hong Kong. Prior to that, Melvin acted as business developer at programmatic platform Triplelift.

“I’m thrilled and grateful to join the Adsquare team in APAC. Adsquare’s technology, capabilities, and data integrity are second to none, enabling key insights for advertisers and brands to drive effective and successful campaigns. I look forward to helping Adsquare further drive their footprint in North Asia,” Wong said regarding his appointment.

He will be reporting to Nicolas Méar, general manager for APAC at Adsquare.

“To support our expansion in APAC and bring a tighter focus on customer relationships in North Asia, we needed an expert with the knowledge and the confidence to help Adsquare remain competitive and grow even further. Melvin will be a key asset to help clients maximize their ROI via our data-driven solutions for targeting, measurement and OOH planning and activation,” Méar stated.

Adsquare’s Hong Kong office marks the company’s tenth office, alongside in Berlin, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.

Sydney, Australia – Global audience and local intelligence company Adsquare is ramping up its presence in Australia and New Zealand by setting up a new office in Sydney, as well as appointing Jason Podgoetsky as Adsqure’s sales director for ANZ.

Podgoetsky’s expertise will allow Adsquare to work hand in hand with clients in both markets to better serve them with data-driven solutions for their targeting, measurement, and OOH campaigns, which shows his strong track record of client management and deep knowledge of the Australian and New Zealand markets. 

Before joining Adsquare, he had successful experiences at companies such as cinema advertising network Val Morgan and content platform CarsGuide. More recently he has served with advertising intelligence and digital media Exponential and adtech VDX.tv as sales manager.

“I am excited to join Adsquare and to drive innovative change in the Australian and New Zealand markets. I can’t wait to leverage Adsquare’s sophisticated technology and positive momentum in APAC to create meaningful relationships with new and existing clients and to help them grow their business, in the new era of consumer privacy,” Podgoetsky said, regarding his appointment.

Meanwhile, Nicolas Méar, general manager for APAC at Adsquare, commented, “I am thrilled to have Jason on board. Adsquare is expanding the team in APAC with several strategic hires and Jason will be a key asset to develop further the footprint that Adsquare has already established in the area as a leading audience and location intelligence company.” 

He added, “I’m looking forward to seeing our Australian and New Zealand partners leveraging our cutting edge data-driven solutions for all digital channels, including DOOH.”