Frederic Bien

Current

• Co-Founder, President and VP Media Tech at BLiNQ Media
• GM at Ad Buying Network, Inc.

Past

• SVP Advanced Media Technology at Turner Broadcasting / Time Warner
• CEO at Belamo Corp.
• CTO & VP Communities Marketing at Bigstar Entertainment Inc.

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Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• BLiNQ Media
• AdByNet
• AiMA

Frederic Bien’s Summary

Goal: to help businesses advertise efficiently and productively on the internet and in television, using images, banners, videos and rich media ad formats. See below for professional experience.

Frederic Bien’s Specialties:

Business creation and development, esp. in advertising, media buying and Internet technologies. Fund raising, product development and sales building for internet publishing, advertising and television ventures.

Frederic Bien’s Experience

• Co-Founder, President and VP Media Tech

  BLiNQ Media

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  BLiNQ Media specializes in working with advertisers to target, optimize and analyze their social media advertising, primarily across Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn, to maximize engagement, conversion, and viral distribution. We have a team of Ph.D.’s, interactive marketing and social media experts that understand how to reach and engage the massive and growing new audience in social media sites. We provide targeting and analysis of ad campaigns at the profile level, while respecting the privacy of individuals.

• GM

  Ad Buying Network, Inc.

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2005 — Present (4 years )

  AdByNet is an online media buying agency, providing services in strategic media planning, tactical buying, analytical reporting and on-going management. AdByNet specializes in working with direct response advertisers that demand a strong Return On Investment. We measure the success of our work by the performance of our clients' sales, generated directly by the advertising that we place for them in internet search marketing and website display advertising.
  
  AdByNet also offers individually prepared video ads tailor-made for internet advertising. It can create the videos, then target ad placements online in Google's network: AdSense, as well as Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and a myriad of other websites including social networks, video-sharing sites, and Yellow Pages directories.
  
  AdByNet also helps clients track and understand the success of their advertising campaigns, and plan and manage their yearly marketing budgets. See www.AdByNet.com for more details.

Frederic Bien’s Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  FastTrac ATDC , Business - New Technology Ventures , 2006 — 2006

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Ph.D. , Mathematics , 1983 — 1986

  Thesis on Group Representation, Algebraic Geometry and Modules of Differential Equations

  Activities and Societies:

  Percussionist in MIT Concert Band, Singer in MIT Choir

• Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  B.A. , Mathematics , October 1979 — July 1983

  Teaching Certification in Secondary Education

  Activities and Societies:

  Class President

Additional Information

Frederic Bien’s Websites:

• BLiNQ Media
• AdByNet
• AiMA

Frederic Bien’s Interests:

Raising my children well, running 10km races, windsurfing, learning languages (French, English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese), traveling, exploring, golfing, dialog for world peace, preserving the earth, improving our environment.

Frederic Bien’s Groups:

MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta
Southern Center for Human Rights
Sponsorship Co-Chair of Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association

•    MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta
•    IAB
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    Digital Asset Management
•    Sr level Internet Marketers Group, Internet Marketing Professionals Only.
•    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
•    Philadelphia Interactive Marketing Association
•    BIMA, A MITX Organization
•    Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association
•    South Florida Interactive Marketing Association
•    Social Media Marketing
•    AWERT (Atlanta Web Executives Round Table)
•    Global MIT Enterprise Forum
•    ING Network
•    ATDC
•    BAEF Alumni
•    Direct Response Mercenaries
•    Georgia CxO Forum
•    IAB Belgium Fan Club
•    French American Chamber of Commerce - Atlanta Chapter -
•    MEF-Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
•    BLiNQ Media: Social Media Advertising Company
•    Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce
•    Web Analytics Wednesday (WAW) - Atlanta
•    TopRight
•    LinkedIn Advertising Forum
•    Ad Exchange Traders

Frederic Bien’s Honors:

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 1993-95
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator 1988-1993
Princeton University Distinguished Assistant Professor 1992
Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship 1985-86
DeCorte Fellowship at MIT 1984-85
Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship 1983-84
World's Best Dad (twice, incl. last weekend!)

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