The 2008 Marcel Media Seminar

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Sears Tower - Metropolitan Club

8:30 am to 12:00 noon

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PRESENTATIONS

SPEAKER BIOS

Kelly Cutler
CEO, Marcel Media
With more than 12 years of Internet and marketing experience, Kelly Cutler envisioned Marcel Media back in the late 1990’s. In 2003, as more companies realized they needed strong internet strategy advice, her dream was finally born. Since then, Kelly has worked with clients such as Ryland Homes, Rush University Medical Center and Hub International to develop strategic online marketing programs to achieve their unique business objectives. Kelly has recently been quoted as an online marketing expert in leading publications such as Microsoft Office Live, The Register and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Sam Sebastian
Director, Local & B2B Markets, Google, Inc.
Sam Sebastian is responsible for leading Google’s N. America Local and Business to Business Industry Practices with the goal of engaging more marketers about the benefits and efficiencies of the Google platform. Sam and his team work closely with clients in the classified, directory, yellow pages, newspaper, home services, government, education, home improvement, energy, logistics and industrial sectors.

Sebastian joined Google from Classified Ventures (CV), an online joint venture of major U.S. newspaper companies, where he was the General Manager at Homescape.com and SVP, Sales & Marketing at HomeGain. Sebastian worked with the newspaper and real estate communities for over seven years at CV to grow the usage and effectiveness of online real estate and home builder products on newspaper websites.

Prior to Classified Ventures, Sebastian was a consultant with Arthur Andersen in Chicago, IL. In addition to numerous interviews in national industry publications, Sam is a regularly featured speaker at many Local Advertising trade events. Sebastian earned a BA in Accounting from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Brad Keown
Midwest Director of Sales, Facebook, Inc.
Brad Keown has over 8 years of interactive media experience and currently serves as Facebook’s Midwest Director of Sales in Chicago. In this role Brad focuses on helping both brand and direct marketers develop social media strategies to connect with Facebook’s 100M active users via a combination of targeted ad placement, branded application integration, and custom application development.

Prior to joining Facebook, Brad spent 8 years at Microsoft. As one of the earliest digital media employees at the company he held multiple positions within the MSN Online Services Group, his last being Central Region Sales Manager. In this role Brad managed a team responsible for developing custom interactive advertising programs across the MSN portal and emerging media platforms such as the Xbox, mobile phone, and IPTV. His first role at Microsoft in Los Angeles Brad was as part of the launch team for the entertainment vertical that developed a strategy for studios to market across the Microsoft suite of products.

Prior to Microsoft Brad worked in national radio sales in Minneapolis and Los Angeles, before making the jump to digital in 2000.

Brad is a graduate of Bowling Green State University. He currently resides in Downers Grove and in his spare time tries to keep up with his three kids under the age of four.

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