Location Greater Chicago Area, United States, North America Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
Website www.trainsignal.com Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn Twitter View on Twitter
I’ve got to admit I’ve had a pretty interesting life… it hasn’t been your typical graduate high school, go to college, get a 9-5 corporate job and live happily ever after.
Here’s the condensed version… while in high school I worked at Best Buy, worked at a computer consulting company and finally a mobile advertising company trying to secure VC
funding. While attending college I was drawn to the music industry and started interning at Victory Records, one of the largest independent labels, doing marketing work. From there I started doing marketing for Roadrunner/Universal/Island Def Jam and even did some marketing for MTV. Through the 2004 presidential elections I was the Programming Director for MTV’s Rock The Vote in Chicago. I had some of my most memorable experiences while working in the music business. Nothing beats backstage passes, VIP parties, going on tour with a highly successful rock band, coming up with and implementing marketing projects for them and above all... the memories.
At the age of 20 I opened up a car dealership in the heart of Chicago. The experience of hiring, firing, financing, marketing, dealing with people and on and on was one of the most educating and valuable lessons I’ve had in life. I also noticed the economy was starting to slow down and that I needed to exit the traditional physical car dealership model and enter into the online world so I leased out the business and started dealing strictly online. I shifted to a completely different model and began selling high-end luxury cars to buyers all around the world.
In 2007 I joined TrainSignal as Director of Marketing & Sales and we’ve been named to the “Fastest Growing Companies In America” list five years in a row by Inc. Magazine. In 2012 I was named President.
Specialties:*** As Seen In: NY Post, Crains Business, Inc., Chicago Tribune & Chicago Sun Times ***
* SEO/SEM
* Guerrilla Marketing
* E-commerce
* Branding
* Online Reputation Management
* Culture Building
* Customer Experience
* Customer Retention
* Customer Acquisition
* Online Marketing
* Social Media Marketing
* Media Buying
* Public Relations
* Affiliate Marketing
* Conversion Optimization
* Marketing Management
* Product Marketing