CEO Brand Anywhere, Mobile Marketing & Advertising Expert, Entrepreneur
Greater San Diego Area
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- Founder & CEO at Brand Anywhere
- Entrepreneur in Residence at CONNECT
- Co-Founder, Former CEO at Soapbox Mobile
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Dan Flanegan’s Summary
Dan Flanegan is the CEO of Brand Anywhere a mobile marketing and advertising consultancy providing strategy, vendor selection and campaign management for brands, agencies and mobile marketing service providers.
In 2003 Flanegan co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a leading mobile marketing agency and platform provider. While serving as President & CEO of Soapbox, Dan was responsible for the company's vision, market leadership and mission of helping companies improve customer communication via the mobile channel.
While at Soapbox Dan was instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands and media properties including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired by Single Touch Interactive in September, 2007.
Dan is a recognized mobile marketing & advertising expert and has been interviewed and quoted by various publications and media outlets, including Red Herring, ClickZ, MediaPost, OMMA Magazine, Mobile Marketer, The San Diego Business Journal, ABC, NBC, Fox News, Box Office Magazine, The San Diego Union Tribune, UPI, Wired, Marketing Sherpa and Wireless Week.
He has also served as a featured panelist and speaker at leading industry trade and media events including Billboard’s MECCA at CTIA, DEMexpo, The CTIA Mobile Entertainment Summit, The Games & Mobile Forum, The Direct Marketing Association Webinar Series, The Mobile Marketing Association Forum, Dow Jones VentureWire, Mobile Broadband Americas, OMMA Hollywood, OMMA Mobile, Circulation Day LA, Digital Hollywood, The National Sports Forum, The MIT Enterprise Forum and The UC Irvine Graduate Computer Science Program.
Dan is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at the UCSD Connect Springboard program, a Co-Chair of the Marketing Special Interest Group (SIG) of CommNexus and an advisor to a number of early stage start-ups.
Dan Flanegan’s Specialties:
Marketing, advertising, mobile & wireless, mobile marketing, creative development, product management, ideation strategy, UI design, product design, ASP applications, team building and management, public relations, public speaking, startup financing
Dan Flanegan’s Experience
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Founder & CEO
Brand Anywhere
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Brand Anywhere is a mobile marketing & advertising consultancy, blog and podcast dedicated to tracking, reviewing and better understanding mobile marketing and advertising campaigns, the brands that launch them and the companies that power them. We work directly with brands and agencies to provide results driven education, campaign planning, vendor selection, campaign execution and analysis.
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Entrepreneur in Residence
CONNECT
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Founded in 1985 at the urging of San Diego's business community, CONNECT is widely regarded as the nation's most successful regional program linking high-technology and life science entrepreneurs with the resources they need for success: technology, money, markets, management, partners, and support services. Originally founded by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CONNECT has a dual role in accelerating growth: it provides added value and delivers targeted, high-level expertise to San Diego's technology business community by teaming up with the region's most prominent industry-specific organizations and individuals, and by partnering with world-class UCSD resources, such as the School of Medicine, Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego Super Computer Center, and Scripps and Salk Institutes.
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Co-Founder, Former CEO
Soapbox Mobile
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2003 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Dan Flanegan, Co-Founder was Soapbox Mobile, is responsible for the company's vision, market leadership and mission of helping companies improve customer communication via the mobile channel. Soapbox Mobile was acquired Single Touch Interactive in September 2007.
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Dan Flanegan’s Groups:
Mobile Marketing Association, Eyespot Advisory Board, Locomobi Advisory Board, Co-Founder Pointr, UCSD Connect Springboard Entrepreneur In Residence.
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Dan Flanegan’s Honors:
Nominee for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year San Diego 2007, MIT Enterprise Forum Presenter, UCSD Connect Program Graduate, Family PC Product of the Year Award, Festival screened filmmaker
