Kathleen Greenler Sexton

Chief Marketing Officer at Business and Legal Report Publishing (BLR), Inc.

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Chief Marketing Officer at Business and Legal Reports Publishing (BLR), Inc.
Past
  • Chief Marketing Officer at OrderMotion
  • Chief Marketing Officer at HighBeam Research
  • Vice President, Marketing at Inlumen (Formerly known as NewsAlert)
  • General Manager & Vice President, Marketing at Office.com - Individual.com
  • Marketing Director at AltaVista (When under Digital Equipment Co. ownership)
  • Manager, Corporate Communications at Boston Technology
  • Broadcast Television & Marketing Roles at Misc.
Education
  • Boston College
Connections
287 connections
Industry
Internet

Kathleen Greenler Sexton’s Summary

Seasoned marketing and media executive in both the consumer and business-to-business segments.

Entrepreneurial leader with repeated successes in Content/Publishing, Information Technology, Internet and eCommerce.

Deep understanding of subscription, ecommerce and advertising revenue models.

Recognized for strengths in strategy, marketing, business development, and general management in rapidly changing, growth-oriented and fast-paced environments.


Kathleen Greenler Sexton’s Experience

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    Business and Legal Reports Publishing (BLR), Inc.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

    February 2008Present (6 months)

    Business & Legal Reports (BLR) is an award-winning publisher dedicated to supporting HR, Safety and Environmental professionals with tools, news, information and training. Responsible for overseeing the media company’s market growth.

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    OrderMotion

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    June 2007January 2008 (8 months)

    Chief Marketing Officer for OrderMotion, Inc., an online order and customer management software-as-a-service (subscription/ecommerce ) targeted to small and medium-sized retailers. Responsible for overseeing the company’s market initiatives as well as driving the vision, marketing programs and growth.

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    HighBeam Research

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

    March 2003March 2007 (4 years 1 month)

    Officer and key executive for online subscription and advertising-based information library. Responsible for market and product strategy, product management, marketing programs, customer, strategic partnership growth and achieving revenue goals.

  • Vice President, Marketing

    Inlumen (Formerly known as NewsAlert)

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    November 2001November 2002 (1 year 1 month)

    Lead marketer and executive for content and technology provider to financial services companies. Work helped achieve sale of the company to ScreamingMedia/Pinnacor (Now the syndication division of MarketWatch/Dow Jones) in November 2002.

  • General Manager & Vice President, Marketing

    Office.com - Individual.com

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

    April 1999May 2001 (2 years 2 months)

    Individual.com (1999-2000): Lead marketing role and Officer of Individual.com, a personalized online news service. Created a top-10 news property & news brand. This success positioned the company for the sale of the company to Office.com / Winstar.

    Office.com (2000-2001): Lead marketing role for online business center targeting small and medium-sized businesses. Responsible for brand strategy, corporate and product marketing programs, employee communications, public relations, advertising (broadcast, print and online), front-end user-interface and design strategy, direct & database marketing programs, distribution and syndication marketing programs.

    Individual.com (2000-2001): General Manager for division concurrent with role above. Achieved a 50% contribution of total Office.com revenues. Successfully repositioned the business and technology to support new parent company objectives and generated new lines of content syndication revenue.

  • Marketing Director

    AltaVista (When under Digital Equipment Co. ownership)

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    May 1995November 1998 (3 years 7 months)

    Founding member of AltaVista. Lead marketing and executive management role for global $50M Internet media business within a Fortune 500 corporation.

    - Launched the AltaVista search engine and achieved strong industry and brand recognition for AltaVista through advertising, event and public relations programs.

    - Built and managed two consumer-focused online properties – a community-oriented site and a meta-directory.

    - Grew AltaVista into #1 brand, top-5 Internet property (users), and top-10 online media publisher (advertising revenue) and successfully transitioned AltaVista from research project to a viable media business.

  • Manager, Corporate Communications

    Boston Technology

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    February 1992May 1995 (3 years 4 months)

    Led the design and execution of corporate communications and international marketing programs for $79M high-growth international telecommunications company.

  • Broadcast Television & Marketing Roles

    Misc.

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    May 1984February 1992 (7 years 10 months)

    Produced, directed and worked in a variety of broadcast production roles for local and national broadcast. Managed marketing programs for corporate, entrepreneurial, and broadcast clients.


Kathleen Greenler Sexton’s Education

  • Boston College

    BA, Communications, 19801984

    Gannett Foundation Fellowship

    Activities and Societies:
    Photography, Music

Additional Information

Kathleen Greenler Sexton’s Groups:

Board Member, SIIA (Software & Information Industry Assoc.) Content Division

  •    Infocommerce member
  •    Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Network member
  •    E-Commerce Solutions member
  •    SearchEngineWatch.com Forums member

Kathleen Greenler Sexton’s Contact Settings

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