Clash-Media Management Staff
Simon Wajcenberg (Chief Executive)
Simon brings a wide range of entrepreneurial achievements to the Company. In over 15 years, he founded and managed numerous successful online and offline companies, including TMN Media Group PLC. One of the UK’s largest online direct marketing companies. Which he listed on The London Stock Exchange AIM market. Simon has also founded one of the U.K’s first online Stock brokers.
Stephen Hunt (Chief Financial Officer)
Stephen qualified with Arthur Andersen and has been involved in the internet advertising sector since 2000 when he joined the European start-up of Advertising.com as their Finance Director. Having been part of the team which managed the growth of the business through to operations in 8 European countries employing over 150 staff he decided to get involved in another fast paced and high growth company and add his experience to the team. Stephen takes on responsibility for the group finances and will play a key part in establishing strong controls to ensure the groups continuing success.
Ian Williams (CTO)
Ian is responsible for Clash Media's global technology strategy. This includes providing top-level management of the group's Development, I&O, Application Support and Design functions. Ian brings to the role over 12 years experience in senior management in IT. Previously he has worked with a number of FTSE100 companies, including the WPP agencies MindShare, mediaedge:cia, and MediaCom. He also possesses an in-depth understanding of the key business drivers in fast-growing, entrepreneurial companies and how to overcome the resulting operational challenges.
Luke Pursey (U.K Managing Director)
Luke has been in the online direct marketing sector for over 10 years. Luke brings with him a wealth of experience and commercial success across a variety of online marketing propositions and has been responsible for a number of major client wins. This wealth of market experience enables Luke to play an important role in advising on the strategic direction of the company. Prior to Clash Media Luke has also served roles at both Deal Group Media and Web gravity.
Christopher Petix (President USA Operations)
Christopher Petix serves as the President of Clash-Media working in the US office. With over 15 years of online experience he brings a wide variety of knowledge working at company’s including Double-Click Media in the start-up, founding his own tri lingual travel site, heading up Vendare Media’s team on the East coast, as well as Coreg Media. His emphasis on client services and retention have allowed him to cultivate numerous longstanding business relationships in the online advertising industry.
Troels Mark Meyer (Nordic Director)
Troels Mark Meyer has many years of experience in working with online advertising and has worked with online marketing on the ground in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Before joining Clash Media, Troels Mark has, amongst other things, headed up business development for ad pepper media Denmark and been Head of affiliate network Webgains Scandinavia. He thus brings a lot of knowhow and experience to Clash’s Scandinavian operations. His knowledge of online marketing and the Scandinavian market has made him a frequently quoted person in the media.
Frank Tausendfreund (Managing Director German Operations)
Frank has over 12 years experience in the internet media sales field in Germany. About 6 years of working with lead generation programs for Companies like Bertelsmann / arvato, Buongiorno SPA, AdLink Internet Media. He joined Clash Media to start the German Operation and make it to the best know market leader in Lead Generation in Germany. Through his deep knowledge of the various disciplines within Marketing Services including online advertising, e-mail marketing, loyalty programs, postal direct marketing and mobile marketing.
Cédric Stucki (Managing Director France)
Before joining Clash-Media, Cédric served as Country Manager France for Adconion, one of the largest BT ad networks, where he was responsible for overseeing all sales, business development, and operational aspects of the French division of the company. Prior to that, Cédric was involved in several advertising companies including Adlead, a Paris based Ad Agency, specializing in lead generation and MIVA France (NASDAQ: MIVA) where he positioned MIVA as a leader in the French market. He holds a Master of History and Politics degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
