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For AC Lion and our clients, 2011 was a very exciting year. We have been privileged to work with a diversified client base across the digital media landscape and some of the most talented professionals in the field.  Whether mobile or media, exchanges or enterprise, agencies or analytics, AC Lion brings a track record of over 15 years and over $90 million in compensation negotiated. 

Thought I would share some of AC Lion’s successes—the Top Eleven of 2011!

1. VPs Business Dev and Client Services for the leaders in video interactive advertising technology.
2. VP Media, for top 3 travel media platform with 18,000 clients worldwide.(Retained)
3. SVP Sales for a video and content distributed network with over 1 billion impressions.
4. Director of Platform Operations for the world’s top social media company. (Retained)
5. Senior Sales across the country for Amazon.
6. Sales People for the world’s largest independent –and fastest growing–ad platform.
7. EVP Sales (and national team) for sports property with one of the largest aggregated sports audiences.
8. Senior Enterprise Sales Executives for the leading mobile technology platform.
9. Directors of Ad Ops and Audience Development, AT&T.
10. Senior Sales Executives (NY, Chicago, LA) for the world’s most widely used digital maps.
11. Director of Mobile Advertising Operations, iAds (Apple)

During 2011, we expanded our talent acquisition team with new executive recruiters and an expanded Research Department to meet the growing interest in our services.   We also opened a formal office in the Bay Area, to expand our West Coast reach beyond Los Angeles.

You can find and follow AC Lion on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn .  We will use all of these to regularly communicate about new searches and services and information about the trends, leadership and recruiting in the digital media sector.  

May 2012 be a happy and prosperous year!

Top 10 Reasons Santa Needs AC LION Recruiting

1. Santa gets laid off on Dec 26th every year so needs steady employment
2. Keebler keeps poaching all of his best elves.
3. AOL re-orged the toy workshop and all orders must now be approved by Arianna Huffington.
4. The government stimulus didn’t reach the North Pole.
5. Hostile takeover by Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.
6. Was kicked off Dancing with the Stars. 10 million dollar marriage deal to Kim Kardashian fell through.
7. Free cookies and milk is a great perk-but it’s catching up with him.
8. Boss wants him to do an Extreme Makeover and lose the beard and the red suit.
9. Wants a day job – Mrs. Claus doesn’t like him working at night.
   
   And the #1 Reason Santa wants AC LION to get him a new job?
        If he hears Silent Night one more time . . .

Yes Virginia, there is a job for you! AC Lion currently has over 200 digital media sales and marketing positions open across the country.

We can help Santa, and we can help you, in 2012.

ACLION  BUILDS RESEARCH DIVISION TO SERVE GROWING DIGITAL MARKET

AC Lion, NY’s leading Digital Media executive search firm, announces the appointment of Melina Garda as Senior Director of Research.  Ms. Garda will spearhead AC Lion’s increased fulfillment efforts, as the digital job market continues its strong rebound.

“The demand for top talent in the digital market continues to grow.  AC Lion focuses on top media sales and marketing people—and everyone from Fortune 100s to emerging businesses is ramping up their operation” said CEO Alan Cutter.  “With this appointment, we will have faster turnaround time, which provides better customer service.”

Ms. Garda, a native of Alaska, brings over 10 years senior search experience, focusing on the digital, tech and entertainment sectors on both coasts.  Previously with KornFerry and Katalyst Group, she has an MBA from Pepperdine.   Her clients have included Sony Digital, Fox Mobile, EA Mobile, Activision, and Disney.

Founded in 1996, AC LION is a leading executive search firm specializing in building sales, marketing and technology teams within the digital media (agencies, publishers, networks, search, 3rd party technology/software), emerging platforms (mobile, social, gaming, video and converging media), e-commerce/customer acquisition, and financial industries. Headquartered in New York, AC LION has West Coast operations as well.  Over the past fourteen years, we have developed a strong reputation in the marketplace by helping the industries’ best companies maintain their competitive edge by sourcing the best talent. Visit http://www.aclion.com for more information.

Join the fans of AC Lion on Facebook and LinkedIN and recommend our page to your friends in the digital media space! Click on the logos to like our pages and enter!

Eligibility This promotion is open to individuals ages 18 or older residing in the contiguous United States. Employees, officers, directors and immediate family members (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) of AC Lion are not eligible to participate. Drawing Follow us on both LinkedIn and Facebook to increase your chances of winning the IPAD. The drawing will take place on February 1, 2011 if we have reached 1000 new members on LinkedIn. However, if on February 1, 2011 we do not have 1000 new members, the drawing will take place as soon as we reach our goal of 1000 new members. On the drawing date all of our LinkedIn and Facebook followers will be entered into a raffle where one person will win the IPAD. The winner will be announced on the drawing date through the AC Lion LinkedIn Hot Jobs group and personally contacted via email. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.

AC Lion is proud to sponsor of the 2010 PluggedIn Mobile Eco Summit  on Monday, September 20th in midtown Manhattan.  The Mobile Ecosystem summit encompasses 4 roundtables of 90 minutes with high level networking and meetings among participants and attendees.  The roundtable format is an intimate and laid back discussion with a moderator and a roomful of guests who would like to listen to the content of the discussion.  Roundtables are kept intimate in order to foster networking and meaningful discussion. In fact, roundtables have been referred to as “cage matches” for founders, c-level execs and investors, as they allow for honest conversation with insightful back-and-forth dialogue.

Roundtable participants include:

Mobile Apps:

eyeDip, WorldLiveMobile, Toura, MEDL Mobile, Appsolute Media, Fox Mobile, Time Inc.,  WSJ, MTV, Sony Music, Turner Broadcasting,  and Thomson Rueters.

Mobile Marketing:

AppsSavvy, Socialight, Adenyo, Appular, Bravo Media, Joule, Razorfish, and MRM Worldwide.

Mobile Advertising:

Medialets, Jumptap, Greystripe, Percent Mobile, InMobi, Todacell, Ringleader Digital, Ogilvy, Microsoft, and Google.

Check-In/LBS:

Xtify, Buzzd, Facebook, Fiddme, Where, Loopt, Topguest, DoubleDutch, Izea, and Grouptabs.

I invite you to join me there. Click here to register.

Nice to see Crain’s and Inc. magazine confirm what we here at AC Lion already know:  NYC is a hot spot for fast-growing digital media companies.  Of the annual list of 500 booming businesses, AC Lion’s sweet spot (or, new media advertising, as they call it), software and IT rule.   It’s a full fifth of the NY area companies listed (Click here for the full list)   

Around here, this is no surprise.   Digital media has more than held its own during the recent economic downturn.   And I hear it from friends and family all the time—expressing surprise that a recruiting company is doing well during a ‘jobless recovery.’   As I tell them, it’s just like real estate—location, location, location.  Our location (i.e. digital media) is in demand—and so are we.   Our clients are hiring—and so are we.  So times are good for us here at AC Lion.  (BTW, always open to referrals to good sales people and recruiters).

So thanks to Crain’s and Inc. for confirming what we know to be true—the Digital Mad Men (and women) will continue to be based in NYC!

It’s that time of year to say goodbye to the summer interns-AC Lion class of 2010.

 We have truly appreciated the time the interns’ time with AC Lion. Besides bringing great energy to our office, we value their dedication and hard work. They played a critical part in helping AC Lion hit it’s summer goal. Oh, and they played Volleyball in Riverside Park  to Ultimate Frisbee on Long Beach.

We want to say thank you and good luck to: Christy Lutz (SUNY Oneonta), Sloane Winters (Syracuse University), Eli Orgel (Queens College), Shlomit Flihart (Yeshiva University), Rachelle Rubin (Boston University).

AC Lion, New York’s leading digital media recruiting firm, announces the expansion of its West Coast Operations. With a 14 year track record in executive search, AC Lion recently hired David Green, a senior executive search professional, formerly of Scharf Woodward, to augment its California services. This endeavor will continue AC Lion’s strong track record of success in digital media recruitment on both coasts.

Mr. Green will be working with Dana Eggers Lupton, head of AC Lion’s West Coast office, formerly of Vibrant Media. This team brings over two decades of recruiting experience in the California and media markets. “The convergence of media platforms such as TV, media and the Internet, makes Southern California and the Bay Area natural growth areas for AC Lion’s emerging media practice,” said Michael Adler, the Managing Partner spearheading the California efforts. “We work closely with many venture capital firms in the Bay Area and our growth in the LA media market has been tremendous.” The West Coast office, started by Ms. Lupton, will continue its work with media, entertainment, advertising and interactive companies ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups. Read the rest of this entry »

Job Hunters, Beware
By Sarah Needleman

There’s been no shortage of warnings about the career dangers of posting racy content on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Yet many job hunters still don’t heed that advice, and others don’t realize they’re doing just as much damage by doing things like bending the truth or spamming their résumés. Recruiters say such faux-pas can result in immediate and lasting career damage.

“You’re going to be remembered—and not in a positive way,” says Colleen McCreary, chief people officer for Zynga Game Network Inc., a San Francisco developer of social games including FarmVille. “Recruiters move around a lot from company to company, and that can carry on with them for a long period of time.”

Ms. McCreary says candidates consistently damage their reputations by sending cover letters that disingenuously claim a specific position at the company is their dream job. With a check of Zynga’s applicant-tracking system, she can see that those people submitted the same letter for several other openings, too. “They’ve now lost all their integrity,” she says. As an alternative, she recommends that job hunters write about the two or three positions they’re most qualified for in a single letter. Read the rest of this entry »