Aaron Vance

Current

• Vice President Business Development, Local, Ventures, and International at AOL, LLC

Past

• Vice President, Business Development at AOL
• Founder, CEO at Creative Development, LLC
• Vice President, Marketing Strategy and Analysis at AOL, LLC

• Director, Digital Services at America Online, Inc
• Director, International Marketing Analysis at America Online, Inc

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Education

• Pacific Lutheran University
• Pacific Lutheran University - School of Business
• Copenhagen Business School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Aaron Vance’s Summary

10+ year executive with international and domestic marketing analysis and business development experience.

Aaron Vance’s Specialties:

- Lead Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Canadian Business Development with country over-site
- Develop and syndicate new market strategic plans including geographic opportunity sizing, content and distribution strategic partner assessment, and post-launch growth strategies for C-level management
- Determine the baseline criteria and deal pipeline flow by country, filter candidates, negotiate, and close transactions for both content and distribution partnership or acquisition opportunities

Aaron Vance’s Experience

• Vice President Business Development, Local, Ventures, and International

  AOL, LLC

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  October 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Lead Business Development for Local (Patch & Going.com), Ventures (Bebo, Shortcuts, Yedda, Userplane, Truveo), AOL Innovations, and International (APAC, Canada, and LATAM)

• Vice President, Business Development

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — October 2009 (3 years )

• Founder, CEO

  Creative Development, LLC

  (Internet industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

• Vice President, Marketing Strategy and Analysis

  AOL, LLC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  July 1998 — October 2006 (8 years 4 months)

  Manage three functional marketing analysis team's focusing on membership acquisition, retention, and premium/digital services.
  
  Functional areas of expertise on each team include contribution/financial modeling, response rate analysis, member lifetime value, and new product analysis and market sizing.

• Director, Digital Services

  America Online, Inc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  January 2002 — March 2005 (3 years 3 months)

  Built out and managed a team of fourteen focused on providing analytical support to premium and voice service development.
  
  Provided acquisition, retention, and per member financial modeling support for existing products and new product business case development.
  
  Launched 3 products during tenure. Sized market potentional and financial targets.

• Director, International Marketing Analysis

  America Online, Inc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  August 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 6 months)

  Created a cross functional international marketing analysis team to support corporate goals for the 8 JV's.
  
  Traveled to JV's (Brazil, Mexico, China, France, Germany, Japan, UK and Canada) to build out marketing analysis organizations.
  
  Syndicated domestic "best practices" and assisted with talent acquisition.
  
  Developed analytical support infrastructure requirements to facilitate different acquisition and retention strategies depending on market forces.
  
  Assisted in country analytical teams to develop accurate forecasts and budgets to roll back up to corporate.
  
  Provided per member financial modeling support and guidance to in-country resources and assessed accuracy of per member economics for corporate.