Michael Fisher, President, Yesmail Interactive, an Infogroup company
Michael is responsible for leveraging Yesmail Interactive's digital capabilities together with Infogroup's data and interactive marketing capabilities to conceive and deploy integrated multichannel solutions to deliver outsized results for Yesmail Interactive clients. Michael has been a pioneer in relationship marketing over the past 20 years, building a strong reputation of leadership, sales growth and customer satisfaction.
Prior to Yesmail Interactive, Michael was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for The America at Alterian. There he brought together industry visionaries to define and create a new service model focused on opening a two-way dialogue with customers through multichannel engagement. The result of these efforts, the advent of the Customer Engagement Agency, aimed to provide marketers with a 360 degree view into consumer behavior by integrating data, and the necessary skills such as analytics, strategy, creative and technology thus allowing marketers to create individualized dialogs that break down the silo barriers that exist in today’s traditional service delivery organizations.
Before joining Alterian, Michael served as Vice President and General Manager of the financial services group at Epsilon, a leading relationship marketing company. Prior to his tenure at Epsilon, Michael was Senior Vice President of Sales at DoubleClick (formerly Protagona Worldwide) for their Marketing Automation software solutions. Additionally, Michael was instrumental in developing what was known as DoubleClick's Ensemble suite for the banking and insurance industries, and is currently part of the Teradata Relationship Management suite of tools. Rounding out his experience, Michael held various sales and consultancy positions at Unisys Corporation, a leading global technology and services company.
Michael holds a Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership from Lewis University and BS in Communication from Illinois State University.
John Harrison, President and General Manager of Platform Solutions, Yesmail Interactive
John is responsible for the P&L of Yesmail, and oversees Yesmail's Client Services, Professional Services and Client Services Engineering divisions. Over the last five years, John has taken on the responsibility of building out Yesmail's operations in 10 offices around the world. He manages a team of more than 135 employees who serve more than 250 clients in London, New York, Toronto, Atlanta, Chicago, Omaha, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Portland, Ore. Prior to Yesmail's acquisition of @Once Corp. in 2005, John served in various executive roles at @Once. He also held senior positions at GeoTrust Inc. and the Symantec Corporation.
Grant Roholt, Senior Vice President Technology and Chief Technology Officer, Infogroup
Grant sets and leads Infogroup Interactive's technology initiatives, as well as all product development, research and operations. Under Grant's guidance, Yesmail has taken technology innovation to a new level with the advent of Enterprise 7, a cross-channel marketing command center that enables marketers to efficiently execute campaigns across a host of channels: email, web, mobile, SMS, social and direct mail. Before joining Yesmail in 2006, Grant served as Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Technology for Swan Island Networks, Inc. In that role, he was awarded U.S. Patent #7,337,146, the basis for highly secure collaboration in social networks. Grant has previously served in leadership positions at Qsent Corporation, Supertracks and Gemstone Systems.
John Ching, Vice President of Applied Research, Yesmail Interactive
John Ching is a high-tech industry veteran with more than 19 years of software engineering and technology management experience. He is a technical expert on artificial intelligence, data mining, analytical modeling and messaging systems. Mr. Ching joined Yesmail following Yesmail's acquisition of Digital Connexxions Corp., where he was the CTO and was responsible for defining the strategic directions of the Email Service Provider's overall technology, products and ASP services. Previously he was the CTO of ResponseLogic where he led the R&D efforts in creating a patented intelligent content personalization software product. Mr. Ching also served as CTO at Infotriever Inc. (a Brightspark company), and was instrumental in architecting the company's patent-pending eCRM technology for web-enabling and integrating personal organizers and palm devices. Prior to Infotriever, Mr. Ching served as the Director of Engineering at E-Certify Corporation responsible for developing an Enterprise PKI and Internet security product suite. Mr. Ching also held senior technical and management positions at Accenture, Peregrine Systems (now HP), and at Casebank Technologies where he co-authored an US patent on Case-based Reasoning.
Tim Christensen, Vice President of Software Engineering, Yesmail Interactive
As Vice President of Software Engineering, Tim brings over ten years of experience delivering and leading Enterprise software application efforts from varied industries including Financial, Environmental, Media, and Supply Chain Management. He is an avid learner, who enjoys searching for opportunities to build productive teams, and improve business processes, while fostering a collaborative, innovative work environment. His zeal for business combined with software development helps him stay focused on delivering quality solutions that customers love. Tim is responsible for the innovation and development of Yesmail's web and platform applications driving the business' core services. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon.
John Hollands, Vice President of Sales, Yesmail Interactive
John has been with Yesmail since January 2005 as a result of Yesmail's acquisition of @Once. Prior to Yesmail, John served as @Once Director of Business Development for 5 years. Before joining @Once, John led sales and marketing efforts for BCT, a trade printing company in Portland, OR. John attended Oregon State University.
Matt Hickman, Vice President of Sales, Major Accounts - West, Yesmail Interactive
Matt has been with Yesmail since January 2005 as a result of Yesmail's acquisition of @Once. Matt served as Senior Director of Business Development for @Once for 6 years, and prior to that, was Director of Business Development for Agency.com. Matt began his career working in sales and account management for MCI Communications after graduating from Oregon State University and spending a year working in Osaka, Japan, for Osaka Computer Corporation.
Sheehan Murphy, Vice President of Sales, Major Accounts - East, Yesmail Interactive
Sheehan has been with Yesmail since March 2003, responsible for developing Yesmail's client relationships in the Eastern Region with companies such as Kodak, Virgin Atlantic and Reader's Digest. Prior to Yesmail, Sheehan was an Account Executive at email service provider Xpedite Systems (now Premier Global). Prior to Xpedite, Sheehan was Sales Director at Vendio, a leading online commerce services provider, where he helped develop the display and email advertising products into a multi-million dollar annual revenue stream. Sheenan also worked at Boxlot.com (now InfoSpace), where he represented the sites display and email advertising inventory. Sheehan attended San Diego State University.
Tanya Hyde, Vice President Client Services, Yesmail Interactive
Tanya Hyde has more than 6 years of strategic email marketing experience and is passionate about helping clients optimize multichannel marketing program performance. She is member of the Email Experience Council, and has spoken at events such as the Email Evolution Conference and the Online Marketing Summit. Tanya has been with Yesmail since 2003. She manages the Professional Services team, a consulting organization with expertise in cross-channel marketing strategy and creative services. Professional Services partners with Yesmail clients to provide best practices guidance, insight into industry trends and to help them identify ways they can grow their marketing programs and accomplish their goals. Prior to Yesmail, Tanya spent 12 years in the financial service industry. Tanya graduated from Portland State University with a BA in Business Administration.
Tarik Hart, Vice President Client Services, Global Offices, Yesmail Interactive
Tarik's role as the Vice President of Client Services for Yesmail's global offices has him overseeing teams in the Atlanta, Chicago, London, Omaha, New York and Singapore. He first got started in online marketing in 2000, working at Netcentives, the parent company of Post Communications, which later became Yesmail. Through the years, his focus has been on helping clients to develop and grow cutting-edge email marketing programs. Tarik holds degrees in Conservation Resource Studies and Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
Adam Strong, Vice President Client Services Engineering, Yesmail Interactive
Adam has been with Yesmail since 2004, overseeing the health of Yesmail's technical programs. Staffing each regional office globally with engineering resources enables our Services teams to build solid relationships and deliver high value to our client base. He brings a broad service-based perspective rooted in understanding how technology solutions enable intelligent business strategy. Before joining Yesmail, Adam worked for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, where he spent his tenure focusing on business process design, organizational planning and technology services for their CRM practice. He holds a degree in Mathematics with a specialization in computing from University of California, Los Angeles.