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Senior Vice President, Director of Product, Pricing, and Marketing Strategy

Elite SEM (http://elitesem.com), a digital agency specializing in performance marketing, is the only independent, self-funded company on Ad Age's list of top 25 search marketing agencies. Founded on search in 2004, the agency now provides holistic cross-device digital marketing including Paid Search, SEO, Shopping & Feed, Performance Display, Paid Social, and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). Elite SEM account managers are all stakeholders whose compensation is tied directly to the success of their clients. This translates to a +94% retention rate for employees and for clients such as Hugo Boss, Eddie Bauer, and Pandora. Elite SEM is headquartered in New York with six regional offices throughout North America. The company has been honored with a number of industry and workplace awards, including #1 Top Company Culture (Entrepreneur), Agency of the Year: Best Agency Culture (Ad Age), #1 Best Search Agency (U.S. Search Awards), #1 Best Tech Company to Work For (Mashable), and one of the "Best Place(s) to Work" for four years running (Crain's New York Business).

An accomplished, execution focused, and results driven finance and operations executive, with a proven track record of leading and developing a successful team. A highly motivated strategic partner with Senior Leadership, working across all functions as part of a team or independently, while providing visibility into key data used to effectively manage the business. Key experiences include business design and launch, product development, full life-cycle project management, advanced financial model creation and presentation, budgeting, sales planning and development, policy and governance creation, sales force automation, customer relationship management, and process improvement and automation.