Brian Danzis is the President, North America for Seedtag, the global leader

in Contextual Advertising. His responsibilities include revenue, publisher

partnerships and management of all on the ground operations.

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Prior to joining Seedtag, Brian served as EVP, Agency Solutions for

VideoAmp where he was responsible for managing the national sales team.

Previously, he was Global Head of Video & Live Event Sales at Spotify in

which he was charged with developing and aligning strategies across

Spotify’s 70+ markets. Under his leadership, Spotify’s video ads business

grew to represent over one third of the free business unit’s revenue.

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Before Spotify, he served as Global CRO for the programmatic video platform

Virool. At Virool he helped expand the self service platform, originally

built for musicians and SMBs, to deliver earned media solutions for Fortune

100 brands.

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Before Virool, he was Head of Sales & Sales Strategy for Videology in the

Americas. As the company’s first sales person hired in 2008, he spent the

next 6 years building a multi faceted sales organization that pivoted three

times: first, from destination site to video network, then from video

network to platform and again to a multi channel SaaS offering focusing on

addressable video convergence.

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Earlier in his career, Brian was VP of National Sales for the MCN Ripe

Entertainment, East Coast Director for the launch of the first

professionally produced video platform Joost (later acquired by Adconion)

and he was the first sales person hired at in-game advertising company

Massive, Inc. (acquired by MSFT during his tenure). Previous to his digital

media career, Brian spent five years in various sales roles at Comcast and

CNN.

For more than 30 years, Sharon Richmond has partnered with C-level executives from mid-size and small, fast-growing companies who want to up-level their leadership and build companies they are proud of. Clients accelerate their leadership by embracing mindset and behavior changes, building self-awareness and self-management skills, and focusing on the three things all leaders must ensure: focus, energy, and delivery.

Sharon’s purpose as an executive coach is to help leaders 10X their impact by leveraging the power afforded by their roles to build organizations that are forces for good, both economically and socially. She also advises CEOs on shaping organization culture and leading change.

Sharon has taught leadership at Stanford GSB, where she now helps leaders increase influence, manage conflict, and prepare to build high-performing teams.