AdGorilla Management Team
- Dan Ryan - Chief Executive Officer
- Kim Gilmartin - President, AdGorillai
- Mike Puckett - President, AdGorillatv
- Brian Stuart - President, AdGorillaq
- Carla Cortis - Vice President, Affiliate Sales & Distribution
DAN RYAN - Chief Executive Officer Dan Ryan has over 21 years experience in the communications industry. Most recently, Mr. Ryan founded AdGorilla, which provides turn-key advertisement insertion equipment and sales to small- and medium-sized cable television operators nationwide, as well as Internet advertising to website hosts via AdGorilla’s iCapture technology. Mr. Ryan is also the founder of Precis Communications, a company offering cable television and high speed data services to consumers in Utah, Arizona and Nevada, and Blue Vista Communications, a satellite uplinking and transport company built to deliver broadcast signals to rural cable consumers in Utah and Nevada. Prior to founding Precis, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Charter Communication’s Rocky Mountain Group, a region with 260,000 customers in 12 western states. Mr. Ryan created the division by hiring 14 management team members and reorganizing the entire field staff. The region was created from 13 different company acquisitions. In 2000, Charter Communications recognized Mr. Ryan’s outstanding performance by nominating him as its representative to the CTAM Advanced Executive Training at Northwestern University. Previous to joining Charter, Mr. Ryan was executive director of operations at Rifkin and Associates, Inc. (R&A), a medium-sized cable operator that was purchased by Charter Communications in 1999. Mr. Ryan was responsible for managing one of R&A’s cable partnerships and was instrumental in securing financing for R&A’s acquisitions. Mr. Ryan also managed R&A’s rate regulation activities and was R&A’s key liaison to Capitol Hill during the development of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Prior to entering the cable television industry, Mr. Ryan worked for US West as an economist and for Lockheed Martin as an economist and operations research manager. Mr. Ryan holds a Master’s degree in Economics from New Mexico State University. Mr. Ryan is a prior board member of the American Cable Association; a national lobbying group for small cable television operators. CONTACT: dryan@adgorilla.tv |
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Kim Gilmartin has over 15 years of experience in the cable and telecommunications industry. Currently, she serves as President of AdGorillai. She previously served as President of Blue Vista Media; a satellite uplinking and transport company built to deliver broadcast signals to rural cable consumers in Utah and Nevada. Kim oversaw Blue Vista Media’s most recent endeavor; inserting national advertising during unused local avails on cable channels, and distributing the signal to small cable systems via satellite. This allowed cable systems to recognize a revenue share from advertisers, without the expense of local ad-insertion equipment. Prior to starting Blue Vista Media, Kim was Director of Sales and New Business for the Comcast Media Center. She was responsible for sales and distribution of HITS digital applications, including HITS Classic, HITS2Home, Quick Take, and Broadcast ITV. Before joining the Comcast Media Center in March 2002, Kim served as Director of Cable Affiliate Sales for WSNet. Prior to that, she was Director of Business Development for then TCI-owned HITS, where she developed a business & economic model for deploying digital cable services to over 100 MSO’s and independent cable operators. Kim began her cable career at Triax Communications in Denver, CO and Across Media Networks, a turn-key photo advertising company, where she held various management positions in field and affiliate operations. Before entering the cable industry, Kim spent a short time in radio and broadcast television. Kim graduated with honors from Florida State University, with a Bachelor of Science in Communications and Broadcast Television. CONTACT: kgilmartin@adgorilla.tv |
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As the President of AdPro networks, LLC, Mike’s primary focus is to over see all advertising sales aspects for the company which includes local, regional and national sales; encoding and traffic and billing. Since January of 2004, Mike has increased AdPro’s turnkey systems from the original four to seventeen and centralized the traffic and billing operations as well as the encoding operations for the company. Mike was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and returned there after a two-year hiatus as the Director of Owned and Operated Stations and Network Affiliates for Resort Sports Network in Portland, Maine. At RSN he was in charge of three owned and operated stations in Breckenridge, Colorado, Lake Tahoe, California and Conway, New Hampshire. He also directed over 35 affiliate stations across the country. Mike has been in the cable advertising sales industry for over 24 years, with a majority of those years being in management. He began his career with Cowlitz Cableview in Longview, Washington in 1981 and moved to Vancouver, Washington in 1985 to take a position as Account Executive for Columbia Cable. In 1987, he was named Ad Sales Manager for both the Vancouver and Beaverton, Oregon offices of Columbia Cable. In 1990, he moved to Bend, Oregon to become Vice President of Central Oregon Cable Advertising. With Mike at the helm, COCA won seven straight Cable Advertising Bureau awards for system sales and promotions while generating over 1.2 million dollars in revenue for the 20,000+ subscriber system. He also did dual duty, spending five years as the Marketing Director for parent company, Bend Cable. Mike has served as the Vice President for the Oregon Cable Telecommunications Association and is an incredible sports fan – having worked as a sports writer and photographer for the Daily News in Longview Washington for over 15 years. Mike has been published nationally on numerous occasions. Mike has been married to wife Julie for 26 years and has two children – Abbey and Adam, both having graduated from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. CONTACT: mpuckett@adpronetworks.com |
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Brian Stuart joined RevGen Systems as President in 2006. He is responsible for directing RevGen Systems’ technology strategy, with a focus on customers' technology initiatives, including developing a custom fit, low-priced, reliable digital-into-digital solution for commercial advertising insertion equipment. Prior to joining RevGen Systems, he was the President of Ad Systems, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of a state-of-the-art advertising insertion equipment platform for the broadband industry, and where he managed an installed equipment base of approximately three million dollars in over 200 systems deployed nationwide. Mr. Stuart began his career at Rockwell International, where he worked in the production of aircraft and ground communication radio. After spending several years in the engineering field at Rockwell, Mr. Stuart formed Integra-Tech, Inc., a service center for consumer products. Mr. Stuart sold the company in 1995, after which he began his career in the cable television industry. Mr. Stuart received a degree in Electronics from Weber State University. CONTACT: bstuart@rev-gen.com |
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With over 19 years of impressive achievements in sales and sales management within the cable industry, Carla brings solid expertise to AdGorillai, leading the Sales and Distribution team. Before joining AdGorillai, Carla was Vice President, Distribution and Field Marketing for Lifetime Entertainment Services. Over her 4 year tenure at Lifetime, she was responsible for creating and implementing strategic sales campaigns, including the launch and distribution plan of a new network, and increasing revenue associated with affiliate advertising sales. Carla was also responsible for the creation and implementation of a nationwide program that distributed digital equipment, secured 2,500 distribution agreements and increased division revenues by 20%. Consistent thorough each project was her ability to achieve a positive and measurable ROI. Carla developed alliances with major distribution partners and managed key business development. Prior to Lifetime, Carla was with E!Entertainment Services and Playboy Entertainment Group. As Vice President of Affiliate Sales and Distribution for AdGorilla, Carla’s primary responsibility is to create strategic sales strategies for execution by the AdGorillatv, AdGorillaq and AdGorillai Sales Teams. CONTACT: ccortis@adgorilla.com |