ABOUT
In my current role as Director of Sales at Buddy Media, I’m tasked with delivering profitability and providing best in class service to Buddy Media customers. I’m also a self proclaimed Twitter addict: follow me @cdessi
Every brand needs a Buddy
Buddy Media makes it possible for the world’s largest brands to engage their audiences by extending their advertising campaigns into the social world. Through its Brand Advocate Process, Buddy Media helps agencies and brands plan, build, promote and monitor social media campaigns; from developing and managing Profile Pages to developing custom branded social applications. Recently, Buddy Media launched the new Twitter Management System designed for brands and agencies to harness the Twitter platform as an effective marketing tool. Ultimately, Buddy Media’s solutions increase engagement and interaction between people and brands. Some of the world’s largest brands, including AmEx, New Balance and Anheuser Busch, work with Buddy Media to create social brand loyalty. Social brand loyalty is described as the intense adoption of, commitment to and interaction with a brand within a social network. Founded in 2007 in NYC, Buddy Media is a privately held company backed by Softbank, European Founders Fund and GreyCroft partners amongst other investors.
Before joining Buddy Media I held Vice President of Sales and Business Development roles at Miva (NASDAQ:MIVA), and for Zanox, Inc a Berlin, Germany based multinational Ad Network. There I was responsible for overall leadership of the United States offices. Before Zanox I served as Director of National Ad Sales for Epic Advertising (fromerly AzoogleAds, Inc) and have held several senior leadership roles in the online industry, including Responsys, Inc and Mediaplex, now a division of Valueclick, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK)
I live in Chappaqua, New York with my wife Laura, and daughter Talia
EDUCATION
Masters of Science in Direct Marketing Communications
New York University, New York, New York
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland
Erasmus Junior Year Abroad Program
Leuven, Belgium
AFFILIATIONS
Ad:Tech ~ iMediaConnect ~ IAB Corporate Member ~ LinkedIn ~ NY Tech Meetup ~ Affiliate Summit
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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George Ramsay
Minneapolis, MN