Company Name: Social Media Corporate Site: http://www.socialmedia.com Updated: 2010-03-09 09:08:40 PST

SocialMedia names Kurt Abrahamson CEO

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CEO SocialMedia Vision, values and ensures the team executes to our goals Justin Nesci, Sales Justin leads our sales efforts SocialMedia Gedioen Aloula, VP Marketing

Gedioen espouses benefits to consumer brands and social media publishers.

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Gedioen Aloula is vice president of marketing at SocialMedia Networks. He is responsible for communicating the benefits of the company and its products to consumer brands and social media publishers. Gedioen was previously a brand manager with Procter and Gamble, where he spent five years, most recently managing the Old Spice Body Wash business. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in Economics.

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Kurt Abrahamson, CEO
Kurt leads the SocialMedia.com team and ensures that we execute to our goals.

Chairman SocialMedia.com Vision and values. Gedioen Aloula, & General Manager Gedioen espouses SocialMedia.com's benefits to consumer brands and social media publishers. SocialMedia.com media, Kurt Abrahamson, CEO

Kurt Abrahamson is CEO of SocialMedia.com. Kurt has an accomplished history of growing and leading successful businesses and his experience working with the web's leading publishers gives him the ability to understand the complex needs of media companies.

Kurt came to SocialMedia.com from Google where he first served as Director of the Content Media Group, leading the global launch of Google AdSense. Kurt managed the direct sales channel for publishers and secured long-term deals with five of the top ten web properties. He also served as the Director of Global Sales & Operations Strategy and as Director of Sales Operations for North America.

Prior to working at Google, Kurt served as COO of Jupiter Communications and President of Jupiter Media Metrix from 1994 to 2003. He helped build Jupiter’s business from a 12-person office to one of the leading Internet research organizations, with over 520 employees worldwide. He grew and guided the sales team to secure over 40% market share, establishing Jupiter’s position as one of the leading sources of Internet research.

Chairman Chairman SocialMedia.com. SocialMedia.com. SocialMedia.com. Gedioen Aloula, & General Manager Gedioen Aloula Executive Vice President and General Manager at SocialMedia.com. He joined SocialMedia.com to drive company’s thinking on how brands were going to think about social advertising. He communicating the benefits of the company its products consumer brands and publishers. Gedioen was previously a brand manager with Procter Gamble, where he spent five years, most recently managing Old Spice Body Wash business. Gedioen’s achievements include two Effie Awards in 2009 and a Cannes Lion 2008 Silver Award. He Stanford degree Economics. SocialMedia.com. SocialMedia.com. SocialMedia.com, 2010

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Kurt Abrahamson, CEO
Kurt leads the SocialMedia.com team and ensures that we execute to our goals.

Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder & CEO Chairman

Seth drives the SocialMedia SocialMedia.com Advertising Vision, Vision and is keeper of our values and ensures the team executes to our goals values.

Dave Gentzel, Co-Founder & VP Products

Dave invents products that capitalize on social media

Justin Nesci, Gedioen Aloula, EVP Sales & General Manager

Justin leads our sales efforts Gedioen espouses SocialMedia.com's benefits to consumer brands and social media publishers.

Farhad Massoudi, VP Engineering

Farhad leads the crack SocialMedia SocialMedia.com engineering team, providing the direction needed to keep up with the unrelenting demands of our fast-growing marketplace

James Kelly, VP Finance

James Kelly handles all things finance. He is an experienced professional in the online advertising space.

Gedioen Aloula, VP Marketing

Gedioen espouses SocialMedia.com's benefits to consumer brands and social media publishers.

SocialMedia's talent is comprised of people with backgrounds in online advertising, social media media, and technology industries. The team is bound by a passion to invent new ways of making advertising more effective within social media.

Kurt Abrahamson, CEO

Kurt Abrahamson is CEO of SocialMedia.com. Kurt has an accomplished history of growing and leading successful businesses and his experience working with the web's leading publishers gives him the ability to understand the complex needs of media companies.

Kurt came to SocialMedia.com from Google where he first served as Director of the Content Media Group, leading the global launch of Google AdSense. Kurt managed the direct sales channel for publishers and secured long-term deals with five of the top ten web properties. He also served as the Director of Global Sales & Operations Strategy and as Director of Sales Operations for North America.

Prior to working at Google, Kurt served as COO of Jupiter Communications and President of Jupiter Media Metrix from 1994 to 2003. He helped build Jupiter’s business from a 12-person office to one of the leading Internet research organizations, with over 520 employees worldwide. He grew and guided the sales team to secure over 40% market share, establishing Jupiter’s position as one of the leading sources of Internet research.

Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder & CEO Chairman
Seth Goldstein is the co-founder and CEO Chairman of SocialMedia Networks. In his role as CEO, Seth drives the strategic direction of the company, overseeing the development of technologies and services to keep SocialMedia Networks at the forefront of social media and advertising. SocialMedia.com. Seth has extensive leadership experience, advising advertisers on the evolving opportunities in social media, while encouraging developer creation of lasting and interactive applications for online consumers.

An experienced entrepreneur, Seth has created a number of successful Internet businesses, including one of the first Internet advertising companies, SiteSpecific, in 1995. Seth was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Flatiron Partners from 1998 to 2000. In 2002, he co-founded Majestic Research, a next generation Wall Street research firm that provides leading hedge funds with proprietary data insights. Majestic Research was founded on the premise that vigilant analysis of online behavior would lead to better investment research. In 2005, he created Root Markets, the first financial exchange marketplace for Internet mortgage leads.

Seth is also an angel advisor to a number of Web services companies including Aggregate Knowledge, Lijit and Downfly. He was the first investor in Web 2.0 pioneer del.icio.us (now part of Yahoo!).

In addition to Seth’s entrepreneurial efforts, he is also an active member on the speaking circuit, considered the de facto expert on social media. Providing insight for both advertisers and developers, Seth is often asked for his thoughts on best practices, emerging trends and the future of the social media landscape. He contributed his expertise to articles in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek, offering the inside scoop on monetizing social media, connecting advertisers with developers and the importance of social network applications as part of multi-channel advertising campaigns.

Dave Gentzel, Co-Founder and VP Products
Dave Gentzel is co-founder and vice president of product development of SocialMedia Networks. SocialMedia.com. Building compelling Web applications for over 10 years, Dave is the resident expert on what makes a successful social media application. Dave developed the extremely popular Facebook applications FoodFight and HappyHour, which have each attracted over three million users. Dave oversees and guides the strategic and creative product development at SocialMedia Networks. SocialMedia.com.

In 2006, Dave’s creation of the widget Trakzor for MySpace, which enables users to monitor visitors to their profile pages, attracted 3.5 millions users and 40 million pageviews per month. Dave was immediately brought on board at SocialMedia Networks when the Facebook platform opened to developers, and continues to educate developers on how to make the most successful applications for advertisers.

True to his entrepreneurial spirit, Dave has been actively building online business ventures since the age of 15. In 1998, he launched the Trintium Gaming Network, a Web hosting and advertising agency serving video game and entertainment Web sites, which delivered over 100 million hits to fans worldwide.

Dave graduated summa cum laude from at Virginia Tech with a B.S. in business information technology.

Justin Nesci, Gedioen Aloula, EVP Sales & General Manager
Justin Nesci Gedioen Aloula is Executive Vice President and General Manager at SocialMedia.com. He joined SocialMedia.com to drive the executive vice president of sales at SocialMedia Networks. Justin company’s thinking on how brands were going to think about social advertising. He is responsible for setting communicating the benefits of the company and managing the strategy its products to position SocialMedia Networks as leading online consumer brands and social advertising platform for brand marketers. Justin has been involved with managing online media sales organizations for the past 15 years. publishers.

Prior to joining SocialMedia, Justin managed sales Gedioen was previously a brand manager with Procter and marketing at Federated Media, Nickelodeon, and Gamble, where he spent five years, most recently managing the original youth social network, Bolt! Justin has spent the bulk of his career helping brands understand how to develop marketing programs and solutions in digital and social media. Old Spice Body Wash business.

Justin Gedioen’s achievements include two Effie Awards in 2009 and a Cannes Lion 2008 Silver Award. He graduated from Brown University Stanford with a BA degree in Organizational Behavior & Political Science. Economics.

Farhad Massoudi, VP of Engineering
Farhad Massoudi is vice president of engineering at SocialMedia Networks. SocialMedia.com. Under his tireless leadership, our software and design teams have expanded our advertising network to a growing list of social networking platforms, putting in place innovative features that help advertisers achieve better results while enabling publishers to monetize their applications.

Previously, Farhad was at Yahoo where he was a key architect of Yahoo Personals’ new search platform. He was also a software developer at Intel and Scientific Software.

Farhad received his BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.

James Kelly, VP Finance
James Kelly is responsible for all aspects of the finance and accounting function at Social Media. SocialMedia.com. He is an experienced professional in the online advertising space.

Prior to his work at Social Media Networks, SocialMedia.com, James was the CFO at Skyrider, a development stage startup focused on monetizing P2P networks. Prior to Skyrider, James served for six years at Cisco Systems on teams responsible for M&A, Strategic Planning and Tech Group Finance. Prior to Cisco, James served for four years at Deloitte & Touche in their audit practice, where he earned his CPA. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from University of California, Los Angeles.

Gedioen Aloula, VP Marketing
Gedioen Aloula is vice president of marketing at SocialMedia Networks. He is responsible for communicating the benefits of the company and its products to consumer brands and social media publishers. Gedioen was previously a brand manager with Procter and Gamble, where he spent five years, most recently managing the Old Spice Body Wash business. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in Economics.

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