Management Team

As CTO for Adconion Jeremy brings a wealth of technical leadership to the management team. Prior to joining Adconion, Jeremy was with Goto.com from 1999-2006. In 1999, at GoTo.com, Jeremy lead the development of the original sponsored search platform. His role expanded to include ownership of the entire suite of online serving systems for Overture, which was the rebranded GoTo.com. This included online order entry advertiser systems, search and content match serving systems and all supporting toolkits. He managed the serving systems during the unprecedented growth of the Overture affiliate network, including: Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves, AltaVista, AOL and many other top Internet properties. Overture was acquired by Yahoo in late 2003 where Jeremy worked with the senior Yahoo technical and business leadership to design and successfully launch the YPN platform in 2005, which continues to serve billions of impressions per day. Jeremy has 20+ years technical expertise ranging from early Unix operating systems implementations, internet protocols, NFS file servers, JPL deep space telemetry, EAI and high scale serving systems.

In 1998 Arndt founded DoubleClick Germany and his team became the leading “online sales houses” in Germany. In January 2000 DoubleClick promoted him to International Vice President for Northern Europe. From December 2001 until February 2006, as CEO of InteractiveMedia CCSP AG, a subsidiary of T-Online International AG, he built one of the largest online marketers in Europe. Through 2007, he acted as CEO and shareholder of ePages, the leading provider for E-Commerce-solutions. Arndt is also President of the BVDW (German Association of the Digital Economy), the leading IT business federation in Germany.

Arndt Groth studied business administration in Muenster, Germany and began his career in 1990 as Director of Business Development at Hutchison Mobile. In 1992 he joined the Holtzbrinck Group as Executive Assistant and was responsible for various multimedia and Interactive projects. As a result in 1995 Arndt was asked to build up one of the first “online sales houses” in Germany: GWP Online Marketing – the online sales-arm of the German Handelsblatt Publishing Group.

In his function as the North American President of Adconion Media Group, Keith is leveraging his years of sales and marketing success within the Ad Network space, to ensure that Adconion becomes and remains the largest independent, global ad network for digital advertising. In 1999, Keith began honing his expertise in the online Ad Network space as President of Sales and Marketing for L90, where he oversaw a team of 130 sales professionals and in year one increased sales by 250% reaching over $50M in revenue.

During his time with L90, Keith negotiated and oversaw a string of mergers and acquisitions including the acquisition of L90's largest competitor, DoubleClick Media Group. In 2003 Keith lead the re-branding and consolidation of four different Ad Networks; L90, DoubleClick Media, Sonar and Zonfire which became MaxWorldwide. Shortly after the MaxWorldwide team created a profitable business they were acquired by ISH (Interactive Search Holdings, parent company of the portals Iwon and Excite). Keith led sales for the newly combined entity AJI (AskJeeves Interactive) with over 40 sales professionals in 5 offices.
Keith is a graduate from Syracuse's Newhouse School of Communication and began his career selling Cable Television, Syndication, and Outdoor Advertising for Paramount Pictures, Cablevision's Sports Channel, CBS TDI/Viacom.

In his function as Director of Global Sales, Nick Higgins is responsible for the development of Adconions international Sales activities. Nick joins to Adconion with extensive sales and marketing experience, which he gained from working at a full-service agency, in radio and television sales. In the past nine years Nick was engaged with MSN in various locations around the world, where he successfully implemented multinational sales teams in MSN’s European and Asia Pacific subsidiaries. After many years of intensive Microsoft training and establishing new teams, Nick will continue his success in developing and growing global sales teams in Adconions core international hubs. 

Prior to Adconion Media Group, Ben Fox founded Search Octane, a search and SEO Marketing company providing consulting services to various early stage companies (www.searchoctane.com). Prior to Search Octane, he was engaged at Overture Services (NASDAQ:OVER) - later acquired by Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO). Ben served at Yahoo for almost 4 years where he worked in a senior product management position to build innovative and business critical products for several major types of new online advertising (Search, Contextual, Behavioral, and RSS Advertising). He also supported the launch of the Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN). Prior to Yahoo, Ben was interim CEO of Jomba Inc. www.jombainc.com (Angel Funded) which provided matching algorithm services to Job Boards. He also worked in technical sales in the enterprise software business selling sales configuration software at Trilogy Software in Austin/TX. Ben holds a BS in Business plus a major in German from Skidmore College. 

In his function as Vice President of Corporate Development Patrick Meininger is responsible for mergers & acquisitions and fundraising at Adconion Media Group.

Patrick started his career in 1996 as a management consultant with Accenture (NYSE: ACN). From 2000 – 2004, he served as Principal at Wellington Partners, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms, where he led and co-led numerous investment transactions into European IT, telecommunication and media companies. Prior to joining Adconion in 2007, Patrick was the Vice President of Strategy & Planning at T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom, NYSE: DT) where he oversaw strategic planning and accompanied several M&A initiatives at the company’s headquarter.

Patrick earned a Masters degree in Information Systems from the University of Muenster and holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Prior to joining Adconion, Brian served as the Vice President of Business Development, and a member of the executive management team, for Fastclick, Inc. (now ValueClick, Inc. NASDAQ: VCLK). Before Fastclick, Brian was a founder and Managing Partner at Pacific Media Project, LLC, an online advertising and direct marketing company. Brian began his Internet media career at L90, Inc. (now Ask Jeeves Interactive, a division of IAC, Inc. NASDAQ: IACI), as a Vice President of the company. Brian earned B.A. degrees in Finance and Risk Management from Washington State University and studied International Business in London. 

In his position at Adconion, Kay Schmidt oversees the company’s billing and controlling systems. He is responsible for the company’s budget planning and budget distribution. Kay directly reports to the Board of Directors.
Prior to joining Adconion, Kay served as Head of Finance and Controlling for Xantos, a Munich-based biotechnology company. Previous roles also included Head of Controlling for the Internet provider Tiscali in Germany and a controlling position at Nextra Deutschland GmbH. Kay holds a degree in Economics and Engineering from the University in Darmstadt (TU). Kay is author of the textbook Start-up and Growth Financing of Innovative companies (Gründungs- und Wachstumsfinanzierung innovativer Unternehmen) published by Oldenburg, Munich in 2002.   

Before joining Adconion, Martina was Head of Human Resources, Finance and Administration with one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies, US Biotech-LifeScience Group Cephalon Inc. In that role, Martina started the German, Swiss and Austrian operations for the company. Prior to that position, she held the Vice CEO position, responsible for operations at a company developing industrial microscopes. Martina completed a Bachelor degree in Business and Administration, and a Masters of Sociology at the University of Wuerzburg and finally a PhD in industrial sociology at the Sofia University, Bulgaria.

As the co-founder of Adconion in 2004, Alexander has worn many hats and been influential in many facets of the company’s global expansion. His primary focus as Vice President of Network Operations is to manage the Global Delivery and Advertising Operations teams, as well as interface with the Media, Sales, Product and Development Teams to continuously refine products, cross-functional processes and workflows.

Before Adconion, Alexander worked in search engine marketing for four years at dMedia LLC in Park City, Utah. There he was charged with the sales, account management and operational aspects of organic search engine optimization and PPC management.

Alexander is a Norwegian-Austrian born citizen and spent his first 10 years in Europe. He then moved to the US for the next 20 years until he came back to Munich to start Adconion. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a minor in German from Fort Lewis College in Colorado, and an MBA and MS in International Business from the University of Colorado at Denver.

Before  joining Adconion, Kristian served as the Director of Media for TrafficMarketplace since January 2002. Prior to his involvement with TrafficMarketplace, Kristian was active with Avenue A Seattle (NASDAQ: AQNT), building strategic publisher relationships on behalf of clients, and playing a key role driving the development of new global advertising partnerships. Kristian holds a BSBA degree from the University of Denver, with concentration in Marketing & Management. 

Before joining Adconion, Sven ran his own business as an online strategy consultant for several years. He worked as a consultant for several global companies and online agencies, supporting them in the development and execution of online marketing and sales strategies for web based products and services. Prior to this he was CEO of the listed online agency Concept AG as well as Managing Director Germany of OgilvyInteractive worldwide. Prior to this Sven worked for Bertelsmann Media Systems. He studied Computer Science in Constance, Germany and Computer Science & Business Economics at the University of London.  

Prior to joining Adconion, Alex was European Director of Operations at Mediabrokers, the London arm of Microsoft’s Digital Performance Marketing Division and now re-branded globally as DrivePM. He was part of a five-person management team that was also responsible for Microsoft’s Ad-Serving and technology company, Atlas Solutions. He oversaw the development of the network from 250Million to 2.5Billion Impressions, and on his departure, DrivePM was ranked Comscore’s 3rd largest network in the UK. Alex was also responsible for the commercial launch of the company's industry leading Behavioral Targeting program and prior to Mediabrokers held senior positions at leading European Site Representation Network, AdLINK Media Group and Australian-based networks, SENSIS Media Smart and BMC Media. Alex has worked in the Ad Network Space since 1999 and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Melbourne. 

Before joining Adconion, Cédric was Sales Director at Adlead, a Paris based Ad Agency, specializing in lead generation and online marketing. Prior to Adlead, Cédric worked as a Sales and Client Services Director at MIVA France (NASDAQ: MIVA) where he positioned MIVA as a leader in the French market. He holds a Master of History and Politics degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. 

In his current role as Adconion’s Country Manager, Dana is responsible for overseeing all sales, business development, and operational aspects of the Canadian division of the company. Prior to joining Adconion, Dana served as a Business Development and Sales Director for Yahoo Canada, where he focused on strategic partnerships in ecommerce, search, and display advertising. Before that he was engaged as a Strategic Accounts Director for DoubleClick, responsible for maintaining, consulting, and growing the company’s largest global accounts, where he brought in his prior experience as an Account Executive at 24/7 Media Canada, focusing on display advertising and email list brokerage. Throughout his career Dana has worked with a large range of top tier clients including AT&T, AOL, eBay, Barnes and Noble, Expedia, Orbitz, Starwood, P&G, and Staples.