Movers & Shakers: Flashtalking, Kony and more

The mobile marketing industry is ever-changing, and that applies to the people as much as the technology. Movers & Shakers is a weekly feature intended to help you keep track of whos joined which company, and what theyre doing there.

DeAngelis takes Flashtalking CTO role
Flashtalking blokeIndependent ad server Flashtalking has hired Patrick DeAngelis as its chief technology officer. DeAngelis takes the engineering helm as the company aims to continues to drive innovation around HTML5 programmatic creative, cross-channel ad serving, and campaign measurement. DeAngelis brings with him two decades of ad tech engineering leadership experience.

“Pat understands data-driven ad creative represents art and science that powers advertising that is more relevant for consumers and better performing for brands,” said Flashtalking CEO, John Nardone. “He is a guy that had been in the thick of it from the earliest days in our industry and has always understood how tech can make for better advertising.”

Rohleder joins Konys Advisory Board
Enterprise mobility company Kony has added Stephen J. Rohleder to its recently-formed Advisory Board.
Rohleder’s career spans more than 30 years at Accenture, where he held multiple senior leadership positions including Global chief operating officer, chief executive for N. America, and chief executive of the healthcare and public sector division. He is known for his expertise in driving transformational client strategies

Two sales heads for Bloomberg Media
Keith Grossman and Viktoria Degtar have been appointed as newly-created global region ad sales heads at Bloomberg Media’s New York and London offices respectively. They join Asia-based ad sales head Mark Froude. All three will report to global chief revenue and client partnerships officer, Paul Caine.

Grossman will be the central point of leadership for the US sales organization and work alongside global sales and marketing lead partners to continue building the company’s growing cross-platform momentum. Before joining Bloomberg Media in June 2014, Grossman was the associate publisher of Wired and Ars Technica. He will continue to be based in New York City.

Degtar is moving to London to take on the role of head of EMEA sales after serving as group publisher in charge of Bloomberg’s LIVE events division and multi-platform sales for the last 12 months. She will lead EMEA’s sales leadership team of Emma Winchurch-Beale, Damian Douglas, and Simon Baker, and will also collaborate with the marketing, advertising operations and data teams. Prior to her arrival at Bloomberg Media at the end of 2014, Degtar was vice president of sales for The Huffington Post. Before that, she spent five years as the national sales director for The Financial Times.

Paulislick takes product role at Commerce Signals
Federated Data specialist Commerce Signals has appointed Adam Paulisick to the role of chief product officer.
Commerce Signals’ Federated Data platform enables data owners, such as mobile operators, payment entities and others to share their data, while ensuring it remains within their own infrastructures. It’s an approach that lets them retain control over where and to whom data is sent, as well as the use for which it is intended.

The platform gives data buyers access to the rich customer insights generally held by the regulated sector, enabling them to be more specific and targeted in their efforts, and better track and measure ad effectiveness.

Mode Media hires Broadhurst
Simon Broadhurst has joined vertical media company, Mode Media, as UK head of publishing. He joins from Specific Media where he was publisher services director, and will lead Mode’s relationships with publishers and its extensive content creator network of more than 10,000 bloggers and vloggers worldwide.

Broadhurst began his career at ITV and Channel 4 before moving onto head up video planning and buying at Web TV Enterprise, one of the UK’s first video networks, which later merged with Collective.