The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced the winners of its 2009 Sales and Service Excellence Awards. The Sales Awards honor IAB members for outstanding performance and leadership in interactive advertising sales. IAB Service Excellence awards honor outstanding member contributions to IAB industry-related initiatives.
“The Sales Excellence awards are based primarily on customer feedback—the very best indicator of outstanding leadership and performance of both individual account executives and sales organizations. The Service Awards recognize individuals who made exceptional contributions to building the interactive advertising industry as a whole. Both awards acknowledge the hard work, dedication and excellence necessary to drive growth in our industry, particularly in such challenging times,” said Sherrill Mane, SVP Industry Services for the IAB.
“We congratulate all the winners and celebrate their achievements.”
The Sales Excellence Awards, given by the IAB and developed under the auspices of the IAB’s Sales Executive Council in conjunction with The Myers Annual Survey of Advertising Executives, honor outstanding interactive sales organizations and individual account executives. The survey has been asking marketers, agency planners and buyers to evaluate the performance of interactive sales organizations since 2004.The IAB Sales Excellence Awards are based on proprietary questions and analyses of Myers’ database.
2009 Sales Excellence Award Winners include:
Long Term Achievement: Google
Most Innovative: Yahoo!, Inc.
Best Newcomer: Federated Media Publishing
AE of the Year: Kevin Sullivan, Burst Media
AE of the Year Finalists:
David Antonelli, MTV Networks Digital
Mike Chu, ValueClick Media
Ryan Mayward, NBC Universal Digital Media
Ali Van Putten, AOL, Inc.
Across the IAB’s nearly 400 member companies, 18 IAB councils and committees, and dozens of working groups, hundreds of IAB members participate in shaping the interactive advertising business and driving educational outreach to the marketplace. The IAB Service Excellence Awards honor individual members who have demonstrated strong leadership and provided an exceptional contribution to one or more significant, completed IAB initiative over the past year.
Cameron Clayton, VP Mobile & International, The Weather Channel, for his significant contributions on the “IAB Mobile Buyer’s Guide”
Peter Conti, EVP Borrell Associates, for his dedication and leadership to the IAB Local Road Show in 2009
Ryan Cunningham, for his leadership of the Digital Video Player-Ad Interface Definition (VPAID) working group
Rick Lane, VP Government Affairs, News Corp., for his dedication to improving the industry’s policy positioning in Washington, D.C.
Jeff Litvack, general manager, Mobile and Emerging Products, The Associated Press, for his significant contributions to the “IAB Mobile Buyer’s Guide”
Mark Lopez, COO Terra Networks, for his dedication and leadership as co-chair of the IAB Hispanic Committee
Gary Meo, SVP Print & Digital Media Services, Scarborough Research, for his dedication to and leadership of the IAB Local Road Show in 2009
Bill Nielsen, director, Industry Outreach, Microsoft Advertising, for his leadership as part of the IAB’s broader online behavioral advertising self regulatory initiative
Ari Paparo, product director, Advertising Products, Google, for his dedication and leadership to the Video Ad Server Template (VAST) initiative
Don Rosen, senior director, Business & Legal Affairs, Yahoo!, Inc., for his dedication and leadership while part of the Standard Terms and Conditions Taskforce
Gary Schwartz, CEO Impact Mobile, for his significant contributions to the “IAB Mobile Buyer’s Guide” and his dedication as co-chair of the IAB Mobile Committee since its inception in 2007
Suzie White, corporate counsel, Transactions, Facebook, for her leadership while part of the Standard Terms and Conditions Taskforce
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