Phil Guest

Current

• SVP Global Ad Sales at Sulake

Past

• Managing Director UK & Regional Director Habbo Europe at Sulake
• Managing Director Habbo UK at Sulake
• Director and Head of Commercial Development at AOL UK

• Commercial Director at Fox Kids Europe (now Jetix Europe)
• Head of Sales & Business Development at Capital Radio (Interactive Division)
• Advertising Manager at Emap Consumer Magazines

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Education

• Ardingly College

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Industry

Online Media

Phil Guest’s Summary

Product management of Habbo Hotel in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

Corporate business development, team leader and deal maker for the UK's most successful ISP brand, AOL.

A successful track record of generating revenues from closing cross media deals for Fox Kids (now Jetix) children’s television covering broadcast, programming, licensing and online.

Experience in developing business plans and generating online revenues with Capital Radio as Head of Sales & Business Development for their Interactive division.

Extensive magazine experience as Advertising Manager for a number of specialist health titles within the consumer sector as well as a classified sales background from trade publishing.

Defined Creative skills as a Commercial Producer for local radio station in Portsmouth.

Phil Guest’s Specialties:

Cross functional experience - marketing, sales, technology, customer service and product development
Strong leadership skills
Deal negotiation
Business development
Operational management experience
Cross media experience - TV, Radio, Online and consumer/trade press

Phil Guest’s Experience

• SVP Global Ad Sales

  Sulake

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

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Responsible for leading the development of Sulake's global advertising sales business working with organisations that are looking to engage with youth audiences through immersive online environments like Habbo Hotel.

• Managing Director UK & Regional Director Habbo Europe

  Sulake

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

  July 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Expanded role to cover regional management of Habbo Germany, Netherlands, Austria & Switzerland as well as UK.
  
  Sulake is a new type of online entertainment company with a successful track record of building large scale online communities and casual multiplayer games for teenagers.
  
  Sulake's core product, Habbo Hotel (www.habbo.co.uk) is one of the fastest growing teenage communities online with over 9.5 million unique users globally pm.
  
  Phil was responsible for the day-to-day management and leadership of Habbo Hotel in the UK as well as Germany while a new country manager is sought.

• Managing Director Habbo UK

  Sulake

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

  February 2007 — July 2007 (6 months)

• Director and Head of Commercial Development

  AOL UK

  (Public Company; Online Media industry)

  November 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 3 months)

• Commercial Director

  Fox Kids Europe (now Jetix Europe)

  (Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

  November 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 5 months)

• Head of Sales & Business Development

  Capital Radio (Interactive Division)

  (Online Media industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

• Advertising Manager

  Emap Consumer Magazines

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ema; Media Production industry)

  January 1992 — November 1998 (6 years 11 months)

Additional Information

Phil Guest’s Interests:

Rugby

Phil Guest’s Groups:

Edelman event, Internet People

•    AOLAlumni
•    Association of Virtual Worlds
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    FREE ONLINE MMORPG & MMO GAMES | MMO hub.org
•    Advertising & Marketing for Entertainment Executives
•    Casual Games
•    AOL CONNECTIONS
•    Flash Game Developers
•    European Virtual World Strategists
•    VirtualWorlds
•    The ADVERTISING Club (New York)
•    Social Media, Social TV, Monitoring, Mobile Social Networks, Marketing, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, PR
•    Advertising Account Executives of America
•    We Are Social
•    IAB UK
•    Digital Lunchbox

Phil Guest’s Contact Settings

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