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.

Brandon Friesen joined Just Media as agency President in 2012. With a successful track record across a myriad of marketing and media disciplines, Brandon brings a wealth of tech sector experience to the table. He has worked with domestic and global technology customers of all sizes, across both the B2B and B2C sectors; including Microsoft, HP, Intel, T-Mobile, Sony, HTC, ESET, TriNet, Best Buy, SAP, IBM, Adobe, Oracle and Cisco.

Prior to joining Just Media, Brandon held the role of President, NorthAmerica, with DWA, Inc., where he headed US business operations. Before that, he helped clients leverage paid, owned and earned media through influencer marketing programs as a Vice President with Netshelter Technology Media. Brandon also served as a Group Publisher for industry-leading brands, such as InformationWeek, Dark Reading, Dr. Dobb's and Network Computing, where he focused on product strategy, brand leadership, customer relationships and content direction. He also held a variety of sales positions, including VP of Sales, for UBM TechWeb's enterprise portfolio. Early in his career, Brandon served as a technology journalist for Miller Freeman, covering the world of converged communications on brands such as Computer Telephony and CommWeb.

Brandon lives in San Rafael, CA, with his lovely wife and two kids. While he's not trying to keep up with the family, he enjoys playing ice hockey, exploring the limitless coastal trails in Northern California and reading as many history books as possible.

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.

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.

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., from 2009 to 2012 Dick served as President of the El Cerrito Futbol Club in Northern California, home to over 800 youth soccer players aged 4-18, and is currently a qualified soccer referee and coach.

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.

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.

Katelyn joins the team as a recent graduate of UC Davis, with a degree in Economics and minor in Communications. While attending UC Davis, she worked at Student Housing for two and a half years and held several leadership positions in various student-run organizations around campus. Katelyn is a numbers person and as such, is thrilled to be a part of the analytics and trafficking team here at Just Media. She's looking forward to a working in the marketing industry and growing her knowledge of media and advertising. Katelyn is excited to be back in the Bay Area after having moved away for 10 years.

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.

Originally from Southern California, Patricia relocated to the Bay Area and joined the Just Media team in early 2013. Patricia is a recent graduate of UC Irvine with a BA in Humanities & Arts, concentrating on Film & Media and Photography, and minor in Business Management. Prior to joining the Just Media team, Patricia worked at both the UC Irvine Student Center & Event Services and the UC Irvine Anteater Recreation Center where she hired, trained, and managed student staff and intramural sports. Outside of the office she likes to play sports, go to Disneyland, and spend time with family and friends.

Patrick landed in San Francisco in 2007 from Brooklyn, New York, after a stint at Anthem magazine. He quickly traded that career path, and style, to utilize his degree in Marketing from NYU's Stern School of Business in the media agency world.

It was first at ZenithOptimedia that Patrick honed his media skills on the challenging HP account. He focused on both B2B campaigns, as well as consumer campaigns, which ultimately produced Mediaweek's Digital Media Plan of the Year in 2008 for his team's work on Blackbird 002. Two years later, he moved to Universal McCann where he delved more deeply into the B2B tech space on Microsoft's Commercial campaigns. Looking for a new challenge, Patrick stepped out of his comfort zone to further his management and team building skills at a full service shop, Duncan/Channon. It was here that his love of process and client management blossomed, while his love of tech and the B2B space kept calling him back. That call was answered when he accepted the Senior Accounts Director position at DWA, managing clients like Blue Coat Systems and Kingston. After helping grow the team triple in size, he sought to further his focus on operations and client management across the Bay at Just Media.

When he's not knee deep in the tech or B2B space, he can likely be found on his road bicycle touring the hills of Marin, playing golf at one of the many Bay Area courses, hiking with his girlfriend through wine country or brewing a new beer as varied as his interests.

Born and raised in Oakland, California, Ryan received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California State University, East Bay. After graduating, Ryan spent two years working at Google on AdWords where he did everything from helping AdWords advertisers troubleshoot technical issues, improving SEM campaign performance to managing and optimizing large sets of keyword data. During his time at Google, Ryan developed a genuine interest in SEM and knew he wanted to further pursue a career in that area. Outside of the office, Ryan enjoys playing basketball, hiking outdoors, and watching his favorite sports teams.

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 in France, Sebastien Damas moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2012 from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Sebastien graduated from Wake Forest University's Calloway Schools of Business with a B.S. in Business Enterprise Management, concentrating in International Business. With a degree in business and experience in marketing from his time at the ad agency CLM BBDO in Paris, France, as well as from Inmar, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Sebastien knew he wanted to use his analytical and marketing skills at an agency; joining the Just Media team in October of 2012.

Originally from Howard County, Maryland, Stefanie joined the Just Media team as Junior Media Planner/Buyer in 2013. With a relentless passion for the industry, she started her media love story with Seventh Point Advertising based out of Hampton Roads, Virginia.

With a background in B2C, Stefanie has experience in many advertising categories including managed healthcare, higher education, automotive, legal, financial, and retail. Helping manage multiple accounts, this to-do list slaying media gal manages projects with the utmost skill and attention to detail. A graduate from Virginia Tech, this Hokie is honing her skills in the B2B tech space; expanding her digital DNA. With a commitment to providing the most cost-effective, strategic media plans, Stefanie always has clients' targets and objectives top-of-mind.