Teads, The Global Media Platform, today announces the appointment of Karen Wang as Managing Director, Canada, where she will be responsible for leading and growing the Canadian team.
Wang joins Teads with more than 20 years of experience in digital media, joining from Pelmorex Corp where she was Sales Lead for four years. Prior to Pelmorex Corp, Wang was COO and Co-founder of SpaceiShare Inc. and previously to this she was part of the launch team at Olive Media where she worked as VP of Sales.
Karen Wang, Managing Director, Canada at Teads comments: “I am thrilled to be joining Teads to lead and grow the Canadian team. As the digital advertising ecosystem continues to rapidly evolve and businesses look for more tangible results and insights, Teads is uniquely positioned to help drive results. My greatest motivation for joining Teads is its intense focus on innovation and building deep partnerships with advertisers and agencies.”
Alongside Wang, Teads has made a series of senior new appointments across North America, including Natalie Bastian, Global CMO, Jennifer Werner, VP Southeast, Neala Brown, VP of Insights, Matthew Harris, VP Multicultural, Charles Lucterhand, VP of Strategic Accounts, and Marc Sutter, VP Enterprise Sales (for Teads Ad Manager).
The company is looking to bolster its employees across all departments throughout 2022, with plans to increase its staff by 17% across North America to meet growing demand. These recent hires will enable Teads to further its growth and focus on providing greater resources and services.
As well as several new hires, Teads has made a number of promotions throughout North America; Jennifer Lockhart, SVP Sales WC, Max Liebson and Fiona McIndoe as VP East, Maria McCarthy and Andrew Robinson as VP Midwest, Josefina Schmella and Ann Damele have both been promoted to VP West, and Brett McCarrick and Jessica Curry have both moved to the position of VP Performance, US and Agency Development, respectively.
Jeremy Arditi, co-CEO of Teads adds: “I’m thrilled to welcome Karen who joins the company as Managing Director in Canada. Her experience in digital media and her partnerships with advertisers and agencies made her the ideal candidate to help us further our growth in Canada. I’d also like to welcome all our new starters who are all joining the company at an exciting time and period of growth for the company.”
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About Teads
Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, end-to-end technology platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies.
For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers. Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach 1.9 billion unique monthly users* in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions.
Teads partners with the leading marketers, agencies and publishers through a team of over 1,000 people in 26 countries. For more information, visit: www.teads.com
* Global reach as of September 2021
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