A pioneer in the growth of online advertising since its commercial inception, Mr. Prohaska has almost 20 years of experience in online media and broadcast television. Mr. Prohaska aims to expand Smartclip’s network throughout North America and cultivate strategic partnerships for the company.
Most recently, Mr. Prohaska served as vice president of North American sales, account management, for AOL, where he led a 150-person sales team that worked with North American advertisers, handling over $1 billion in total annual revenue. He also drove many company-wide business initiatives improving process, systems, policy and structure across a number of departments. Mr. Prohaska was part of the AOL team that was ranked as the number one “quality sales organization†by more than 200 agency and advertising executives in the 2009 Jack Myers Media Business Report Survey.
Early in his career, Mr. Prohaska was the first online media buyer at BBDO (now part of OMG) and later became regional sales manager for CNET after opening offices in New York. He also held various sales leadership and consulting positions at Hulu, Claria, Listen.com, Internet Appliance Network, Sesame Workshop and Turner Broadcasting Sales.
Mr. Prohaska received his Bachelor of Science in communications and management from Syracuse University.
