BIOS

Born and raised in Delaware, Alan May is a graduate of the University of South Carolina where he majored in Marketing and was a member of the track team. Alan started his media career at Benton & Bowles in New York on a variety of Proctor & Gamble and General Foods brands.

Alan headed west after four years in New York to Houston, TX to join Ogilvy & Mather. He led media teams on accounts such as Shell Oil, Texas Tourism and a start up Computer Company that became Compaq Computers.

In 1997, Alan moved to San Francisco to become Media Director at Anderson & Lembke. He created and led integrated media teams servicing brand/product campaigns for clients including Microsoft, Tektronix and AMD. Alan then moved onto MediaCom opening the San Francisco office and building a team to manage Oracle globally. Prior to joining Just Media in 2010 Alan was in-house Media Director at Franklin Templeton Investments.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Anna moved to the Bay Area in 1997. Anna became interested in the accounting field while attending college and joined USA Today in their finance administration team. Determined to expand her career in accounting and finance, Anna joined Just Media in 2006 as a key member of the accounting group, where she has a range of responsibilities managing and verifying our payment documentation and vendor records. Anna keeps a keen eye on all our records with internal company employees and management, along with all our external vendors, reconciling the day to day accounting structure.

Braughnwynn “Bibi” Jackson is a native to Oakland and holds dual degrees in Biomedical Research & Biostatistics and an MBA from Mills College with emphasis in Strategic Marketing. After graduating, Bibi joined a Biotech company in Business Development and Marketing roles, where she was involved with marketing and business strategy. After one year Bibi decided to make the leap into the world of advertising, joining a B2B boutique agency in San Francisco. There she applied science theories to A/B testing, project/campaign management and campaign strategy to the world of advertising and media. Bibi touched a variety of brands in various industries spanning Healthcare and Technology to Finance and Legal. Through it all, her passion for media began surfacing and Bibi took on more and more media responsibility. After 3 ½ years tenure, Bibi wanted to work on only media for clients and decided it was time to pursue a role with Just Media.

Since coming on board with Just Media, Bibi has been working with planning and strategy for clients such as Applied Materials and EMC2; handling out of home placements and project management.

A Marin County native, Carrie joined the Just Media team in July 2007. She graduated from Chico State University with a bachelor's degree in Business and a concentration in Advertising/Marketing. She began her professional life with a job in PR at Edelman Public Relations but quickly found she yearned to become part of the wonderful world of advertising. In 2006, she transitioned to InfoWorld Media Group where she found her passion in online media.

Carrie started at Just Media by assisting on the Quest Software account in 2007 doing behind the scene fundamentals. In 2008, Carrie became the Account Manager on the Quest account due to her strong relationship with the client, dedication and organizational skills. While managing this B2B client, she has also managed media campaigns for clients such as, Citrix, University of California and San Francisco Environment.

Christian’s experience with a variety of companies from software security providers such as Lumension, Stephens (investment banking), Seagate or Salesforce.com (customer retention management solution) provides him the skills to implement and execute highly niche campaigns while as a graduate from San Francisco State University with a degree in Business Marketing Christian has a personal interest in all things media which is why he joined Just Media in 2009 and now blends creative media planning while leveraging a wide range niche-targeting insights.

Analytics and research are at the core of Christian’s media planning to ensure that the marketing message effectively and accurately reaches the campaign’s target audience – moreover, once a campaign is live and allows for optimization through data points (such as an online campaign) Christian and the Just Media analytics team works side-by-side to reach the campaign’s marketing goals. Christian's deep passion for all of his client’s best interests ensures well-thought, fair and excellently executed campaigns.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Cindy Nguy graduated from SFSU with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Business with a marketing concentration. She started her media career with OMD on the Clorox account and then ventured onto Zenith Optimedia to work on Hewlett Packard. In 2007, Cindy joined the Just Media as a media planner.

At Just Media, Cindy has helped managed multiple accounts such as Fujitsu, Autonomy Software, and EMC. Her knowledge and expertise in traditional, out-of-home, and interactive/online media has allowed her to successfully develop and execute a number of integrated branding and lead generation campaigns to achieve the clients' media objectives and goals. While working on B-to-B technology accounts, she has continued to create strategic media plans to reach niche target audiences within industries such as education, legal, financial, solar and healthcare. As the world of media continues to evolve at a rapid pace, Cindy is always looking for new ideas and opportunities to bring to current and prospective clients to consider and explore in order to remain competitive in this marketplace.

Cristina grew up in Southern California and graduated from Cal State Northridge with a B.S. in Business Administration & Marketing. She relocated to the Bay Area in 2004 with her husband and two children.

After graduating, Cristina worked at DCA Advertising (a division of Dentsu America) in Santa Monica, working on broadcast media planning and buying in top markets for a diverse range of clients, including 21st Century Insurance, Canon Printers and Wherehouse Music. Upon arriving in the Bay Area, Cristina worked at Metro Newspaper Advertising Services where she specialized in creating national footprints utilizing local newspaper audiences. She planned for and managed integrated print/digital regional campaigns for numerous clients such as Alaska Airlines, Bank of the West, and United Healthcare. At Just Media Cristina is currently focusing on digital planning/buying for Citrix NetScaler and XenServer, Motorola Solutions and Hitachi Data Systems.

Born and raised in Southern California, Dale moved up to Northern California to attend the business program at CSU, Sacramento. Upon graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Marketing, he moved to the Bay Area and got his first job in advertising at Goldberg Moser O'Neill as a Media Assistant working on Dell.

Dale has over 9 years of media experience, working on a wide variety of business and consumer accounts. Recently, he spent 3+ years on Microsoft's international media team, collaborating with 28 different markets on multiple accounts, including the launch of Windows Vista. Since then, he has planned successful online and offline media plans for numerous other technology clients such as Nortel, PGP, Best Buy, and Juniper Networks. He also has considerable experience with consumer clients such as Birkenstock, Hard Rock Café, Levis, and Peet's Coffee & Tea, enabling him to work with a wide variety of media and with very different target audiences.

Deborah manages the non-media side of things, joining the Just Media team in early 2003 after 7 years in the Tradeshow industry. She brings with her 20+ years of accounting and banking experience. Most recently, Deborah served as Accounting Manager for MICE Group San Francisco, a subsidiary of London based MICE Group PLC. She also spent 4+ years with the bay area arm of ExhibitGroup/Giltspur. Both companies are global leaders in the Tradeshow and Marketing Services arena. The time spent and experience gained at these companies has greatly increased her understanding of the accounting needs of a marketing services company.

Dick Reed has been CEO of Just Media, Inc., since 2002. During that time Dick has led the agency team in developing both domestic and global media strategies for a large number of technology and consumer brands such as EMC, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Motorola Business Solutions, Fujitsu, Autonomy, Quest Software, Seagate Technology, salesforce.com, Virgin America, Solar City, Applied Materials, Citrix, VMware, Borland, McAfee, Webroot, Siemens Business Communications, Sterling Commerce and TRiNet HR. Dick is a recognized expert in the utilization of different media types. He has been featured on the Forbes CMO channel, TechWeb CMO Interview series, as a regular panelist at DMA events, as a commentator in B2B Magazine & WSJ and is an Internationalist “Agency Innovator” and award winner.

British born, prior to his appointment as CEO in the US, Dick ran the online media team for Just Media UK. Dick is a graduate of University of London's Kings College where he majored in Chemistry & Management Studies. In addition to running Just Media, Inc., Dick is also President of El Cerrito Futbol Club in N California, home to over 800 youth soccer players from 4-18 years.

Originally from Germany, Frauke came to the United States in 2004 and enjoys living in the beautiful bay area with her husband and two cats.

She started her advertising career in 1995 as a Team Assistant, but her love for numbers and statistics quickly got her interested in Media Planning. Traditional media planning and project management for clients in the IT, banking, elderly living and fashion fields then filled her daily schedule. A year before coming to the United States, Frauke ventured over to the publisher side and worked for the Condé Nast publishing house in Munich.

Frauke is Google Certified and enjoys leading her team from trafficking over reporting to analyzing campaigns. Frauke's passion in the space includes solving mind numbingly complex trafficking and tracking issues, assisting in beta testing new analytics programs for the agency, experimentation with engagement mapping tools, social and search media tracking tools and lead quality reports. Throw numbers her way and she’s happy!

Georgina joined the Just Media team over four years ago, bringing with her almost 20 years of media planning experience. Previously, Georgina held senior level planning positions at both boutique and large ad agencies including Creative Media & Ketchum Advertising and has consulted for agencies such as Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, PHD and J Walter Thompson (JWT Technology.)

Switching to consulting over 15 years ago, Georgina has worked with a variety of industries such as b2c and b2b technology, finance, health, search, retail, travel, gaming and consumer electronics. She managed online and print programs for a few start ups as well as established brands including WebMD, Symantec, Discover Brokerage, Yahoo!, Citrix, Charles Schwab, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Seagate, LSI Logic, NVIDIA and EMC. As a consultant, Georgina enjoys the challenge of assisting a wide range of clients achieve their various media goals.

Ieva comes from Lithuania by way of New York City. Before joining Just Media, Ieva focused on driving both strong brand awareness and deeper customer relationships through her work as a Social Media Moderator for companies like Lexus, Dog.com and Solar.com. Before that, Ieva received degrees in Psychology and Visual Arts from City University of New York Hunter College.

Ieva keeps her finger on the pulse of the fashion world. While in New York City she took part in two Fashion Weeks ('08 & '09) doing preparation work in a showroom months before the event and as a dresser backstage during a show. While at school, Ieva worked at City University of New York Hunter College Elementary School where she taught a cartooning class.

Born and raised in the East Bay, Joel Villezar is a graduate of San Francisco State University where he majored in Marketing. After working at a consumer dotcom out of college and building his direct marketing skills, Joel joined the Just Media team in November of 2005 as an online trafficker to help out the growing online division of the agency.

While initially trafficking and reporting on several online media campaigns for Seagate and Sterling Commerce, Joel quickly learned and adjusted to both the fast-paced online media world as well as the traditional print media side. By mid-2006, Joel started planning and buying media successfully for various clients including BigFix, Citrix-NetScaler, and the aforementioned companies. Joel has also had a hand in planning and executing a variety of media campaigns for clients including Compuware, Motorola, Hitachi Data Systems, and VMware. He's equally well-versed at working online, print, or integrated campaigns whether they focus on brand objectives or lead-generation tactics. Over the years, Joel has gained valuable media experience not only in the B2B IT space, but also in vertical sectors including education, healthcare IT, manufacturing, and construction.

Born and raised in the UK, John moved to the Bay Area in 1992. In Britain, he worked in marketing and promotions for an independent record label, but since emigrating to the US has worked almost exclusively with Event Marketing agencies in both planning and client development roles. Using his creative skills and business vision, John has developed product launches, incentive programs and global experiential events to drive results and expand the market presence of many corporations based in and outside the US. Some of his past clients have included HP, salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems, Informix, Vitria, Autonomy, Cadence, Sanctum, iPlanet, Sola Optical and Kendall-Jackson.

After spending time working with agencies in New York and Chicago, he has now returned to the Bay Area after attaining an MBA in his native London in 2010. John knows what it takes to conduct business in today’s modern economy; offering solutions and demonstrating superior client communication. He recognizes the importance of promoting & building strategic and sustainable business partnerships.

A native of New York State, Kevin Flint moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 following graduation from Syracuse University, where he majored in Advertising and Political Science.

Kevin joined the Just Media team in 2010 following six years as a Media Sales representative in the B2B Technology space; where he created and managed integrated marketing and advertising campaigns for a wide variety of technology accounts, including Microsoft, HP, Cisco and Intel. Kevin’s experience in the publishing world provides great insight into the creation, execution and optimization of successful media campaigns on behalf of his clients.

Laia began her career in promotions and marketing by working for a minor league baseball team. Finding her experience to be a rich and rewarding one, Laia soon realized her enthusiasm for marketing and advertising and has since then taken steps to pursue a long term career in the field. Laia has previously worked as a Marketing Associate at an entertainment company working on direct marketing campaigns.

Sarah graduated from Imperial College London with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and then went on to travel, learning several languages along the way. With this background, finding the right career was tough, but after a few false starts (research, import-export) she worked for a small media independent where the blend of art, science and lunch was just right. She went on to work for Acme Media (at the time a Saatchi subsidiary), and later set up a media department at the SMI group before launching Just Media in London in 1995. Just Media, US, followed; opening doors for business in February 1997.

During more than 20 years in the business, Sarah has worked with a lot of big brand technology companies, and with some really exciting smaller companies; Dell, HP, NCR, Adobe, Autonomy, McAfee, MessageLabs. She also has experience in the financial sector, working for clients including Citicorp, Genworth and the London Stock Exchange. Sarah enjoys change, so the last two decades in media have been immense fun. The challenge though, remains the same: To deliver our clients efficient coverage of their audiences in a way which stands out.

Born and raised in the South San Francisco Bay Area, Susan Redgrave is a graduate of the University of the Pacific & California State University East Bay, where she majored in Clinical Psychology and Criminal Justice Administration. Before joining the Just Media team in 2010, Susan honed her media skills at eBay, where she was responsible for the HTML coding and trafficking of all the home and category portal pages.