Online Advertising Veteran Todd Sims Joins Gigya as Executive Vice President of Corporate and Business Development
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gigya, the largest performance-based widget
distribution network and provider of tools and technologies for
distributing, tracking and analyzing widgets,
today announced that Todd Sims has joined the company as Executive Vice
President of Corporate and Business Development.
Sims, a former executive with ESPN.com and Business.com brings over a
decade of executive management experience to Gigya, where he will be
focused on expanding and deepening Gigya's media, publisher and industry
relationships.
“Building strategic partnerships with leading
content companies is critical to strengthening Gigya’s
position as the leading content sharing infrastructure on the social
web. I am thrilled to have Todd join Gigya to lead these efforts and
aggressively expand our technology footprint,”
said Eyal Magen, CEO, Gigya.
Most recently with Business.com, Todd held senior management positions
in sales, business development, marketing and corporate development and
helped guide the company to its recent sale to R.H. Donnelley for $345M.
Prior to Business.com, Todd was Executive Producer for ESPN.com, where
he oversaw the NFL.com, NBA.com and NASCAR Online businesses, products
and relationships, and Advertising Producer with Starwave Corporation,
where he managed ad campaigns on ESPN.com, ABCNews.com and Mr. Showbiz,
as well as the development of Starwave's first advertising management
system.
About Gigya
Gigya delivers innovative discovery and monetization solutions to the
social media ecosystem, connecting brand advertisers, content publishers
and an enormous audience of active social media users. Gigya serves the
world’s largest brands with a full-service
widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting,
distribution, viral promotion and tracking. Gigya’s
Wildfire technology installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day
and tracks billions of impressions per month. Gigya’s
partners include EyeWonder, Doubleclick, Electronic Arts, RockYou!,
Webshots, MTV and many others. To learn more or to get started, go to: www.gigya.com.
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