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David Mihm recently founded Tidings to help small businesses make the most of their marketing time and budgets online. Mihm has been involved in online marketing since 2000 and search engine marketing since 2003. As his career has evolved, he has increasingly focused on strategies and tactics to help local businesses acquire customers beyond just the search engines. In 2012, Mihm became director of local search strategy and led the growth and development of Moz Local, as he was responsible for product strategy and marketing for Moz's Local, small-business-oriented products. Prior to that, Mihm was known for co-founding Getlisted.org from which he was acqui-hired by Moz.

Tom Maguire recently joined some of my favorites in the industry at Matchcraft, where hes been appointed as director of business development for North America. Maguire is a highly motivated, 20-year executive who has worked with numerous media companies and ad agencies both in the U.S. and around the globe. With experience in new platforms (internet/mobile) as well as a base with traditional media (yellow pages, newspapers, direct mail), Maguire brings a wealth of contacts and experience to his new position. Prior to this, Maguire was VP of business development at Acquisio and director of business development at Media Pro Services.

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Craig Donato recently joined ROBLOX as chief business development officer. Previously, he was VP of business development at Nextdoor where he was responsible for launching its monetization strategy. In that role, he worked with the product team to develop a differentiated native advertising product while building a sales and revenue operations team. Donato successfully acquired a base of active customers, including a handful of high-profile reference accounts and he hit the annual revenue goal in under nine months. Prior to this role, Donato was the VP of social at QVC. While there, he led QVCs social shopping and social marketing efforts. Donato also launched the development of QVCs social shopping platform, which served as a focal point of innovation for its online shopping experience. In addition to leading product development, Donato built editorial and community management teams to program the platform, he helped integrate the platform into the QVC.com core experience and increased retention and engagement among QVC's audience.

Tessa Brown is a customer success professional who prioritizes meaningful relationships above all else. Having worked for a technical start-up in the digital marketing industry, Brown has had the unique experience contributing to the foundation of a company through department development and materialization of concrete goals from scratch. She is currently a customer success manager at StreamSend and focused on building relationships with clients through effective email and social delivery. Prior to this, Brown was director of customer success at Local Market Launch where she managed the restructuring of the customer success and account management departments and project managed technical integrations with high-level partners to ensure meeting of deadlines and resolution of unexpected issues. She also conducted regular training webinars and onsite visits with customers to increase adoption of their software and product offerings.

Heather (Shaw) Murphy recently changed roles and left Cxense where she was senior director of sales development for North America. While there, Murphy sold software that enables media, e-commerce and consumer brands to take control of their audience data to deliver more engaging and personalized user experiences. Businesses using Cxenses advanced real-time analytics, personalization, data management (DMP), advertising, search technology and video platforms to gain more engaged users, increased digital revenue and higher sales conversions. Murphy has joined Ayfie as senior director of sales development. Ayfie is a text-understanding engine that can quarry volumes of textual content at lightning speed, with near-human accuracy. Ayfie provides government, commercial and non-profit organizations with aided-intelligence. This relevant, actionable and structured insight is surfaced in workflow at the highest point of value for maximum impact.

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Heather Hagar celebrates two years as director of recruitment at Townsquare Media. Jim Thompson just celebrated two years as SVP of analytics and audience at Billboard / The Hollywood Reporter. Bill Olive blows out eight candles at AdzZoo as a founding equity partner. Jason Marrott celebrates seven years as general manager at Avantar. Brian Clark marks 11 years as founder and CEO at Rainmaker Digital. Jason Crilly celebrates two years at Populus as founder and Marcus Mamolen celebrates 12 years at GIGLINX as president.

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Product: The Odyssey Group seeks a VP of product management; apply here. Mapquest seeks a principal product manager in Boston, MA; apply here. SiSense is in search of a director of product marketing; apply here. Dealer.com is hunting for a principal OEM product manager; apply here. Ford Models is in search of a product manager for its digital platform; apply here. DealerTrack wants to find a product manager for operations; apply here Mastercard would like to find a business leader for global new product development; apply here.

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