CEO & Founder at Conference Hound
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO & Founder at Conference Hound
- CEO at Digital Axle
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- Senior Associate at A-Team Advisors
- President & CEO at SF Interactive
- President at Butler, Shine Stern & Partners
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- Saint Lawrence University
- Phillips Academy, Andover
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Bruce Carlisle’s Summary
Currently CEO, founder of Conference Hound, a start-up focused on making the search for Conferences and Trade Shows as easy as searching for flights on Kayak. Conference Hound, based in Austin and San Francisco is establishing the first consumer brand in the $11 billion conference and trade show industry.
Concurrently serve as CEO of Digital Axle .
Digital Axle is a boutique online optimization and analytics agency focused on providing customized and accountable marketing programs and solutions.
Our consulting practice is focused on assisting ownership and management with advertising agency operations and digital transition. I provide consulting and training services to agencies and marketers seeking to enhance their digital marketing capabilities. Also assist and advise agencies in the acquisition of digital marketing assets.
Expert in digital marketing and in operations of digital agencies and how largely traditional advertising agencies must transition to digital centric marketing. Frequent speaker to organizations such as the AAAAs, AMIN Online Market World Jupiter and others. Contributor to Forbes.com, BtoB Magazine, Advertising Age and other publications.
Serve on Board of Advisers of JamPlanet, Onecast Networks, and the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University. Active alum of St. Lawrence University ( http:// www.stlawu.edu >.
Previously, founder & CEO of "SF Interactive", a first mover provider of digital marketing solutions from 1996-2003. Secured $10 million in private equity financing to fund growth from William E. Simon & Sons. Sold company to Butler, Shine & Stern. 30 years of of marketing communications experience in advertising, public relations, direct response, internet marketing and advertising agency leadership, business development and operations.
Bruce Carlisle’s Experience
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CEO & Founder
Conference Hound
(Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Conference Hound is a start-up company based in San Francisco, CA and Austin, TX focused on serving the needs of the millions of professionals who search for and attend any of the more than 25,000 conferences, conventions, continuing education programs and trade shows held globally every year.
Conference Hound at http://www.conferencehound.com allows professionals to search for conferences the way they think about conferences: what they are about, where conferences are held, when they are scheduled and what activities are available at or near the conference location (activities such as golf, tennis, scuba, shopping, spas and more. -
CEO
Digital Axle
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
CEO of a fast growing digital marketing and publishing company. building a fully integrated network of performance-based digital marketing service and technology companies through acquisition. Company provide digital media planning and buying, analytics, creative and web production services to marketers including Honda, San Francisco Convention Bureau, Autodesk, Adobe. Emphasis on lead generation strategies. Through A-Team Advisors, consultants to advertising agencies seeking advice on interactive agency organization, culture, acquisitions and hiring.
Bruce Carlisle’s Education
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Saint Lawrence University
BA , Government , 1974 — 1978
Willing to be contacted by any SLU graduates for career advice and partnership opportunities via linked in
- Activities and Societies:
- KSLU, Play-by-play hockey announcer for Saints Radio Network, Phi Sigma Kappa, St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast soccer & hockey teams. Vienna program
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Phillips Academy, Andover
1971 — 1973
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Bruce Carlisle’s Honors:
San Francisco Business Times: 'Fastest growing privately held company in the San Francisco Bay Area, 2000".
Entrepreneur in Residence, St. Lawrence University, 2006
B-to-B Magazine: Digital agency of the Year 2002
