Justin Foster

Current

Founder at Video Commerce
Vice President, Professional Services at WhatCounts

Past

Founder, Email Marketing Roundtable / Emailroundtable at Email Roundtable
Sr Account Executive at WhatCounts, Inc
VP Speakers and Events at Seattle Direct Marketing Association

Business Development Intern at MailMediary
Marketing Intern at Cantametrix, Inc.
Co-Founder, Student President ePLU at Pacific Lutheran University School of Business
Co-Founder, Webmaster at PLU Daily Jolt
Technical Intern at Frank Russell Company (Northwestern Mutual)

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Education

Pacific Lutheran University
Beijing Foreign Studies University

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Justin Foster’s Summary

- I make things "happen"

Justin Foster’s Specialties:

I like bringing people together for the good of the company and/or industry.

Justin Foster’s Experience

Founder

Video Commerce

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

June 2008 — Present (5 months)

Video Commerce is the world's largest and fastest growing community of e-commerce marketers, technologists, and online advertising professionals seeking to learn about and advance the use of video as a tool for e-commerce. We are currently ~300 members representing 200 of the top 500 retailers in the Internet Retailer Top 500(tm)
Vice President, Professional Services

WhatCounts

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

August 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Responsible for P&L of professional services at WhatCounts. Oversee all professional services business operations, including custom application development, deliverability, client strategy, creative/HTML, and campaign management.
Founder, Email Marketing Roundtable / Emailroundtable

Email Roundtable

(Internet industry)

October 2004 — July 2008 (3 years 10 months)

From scratch, formed an organization of 1000+ marketers devoted to best practices exchange in the email marketing space. The Email Marketing Roundtable has successfully connected a fragmented universe of marketers from the world's leading brands to discuss what works and what flops when developing cutting-edge email marketing programs.
Sr Account Executive

WhatCounts, Inc

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

February 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 7 months)

Top performer responsible for ongoing client-facing expertise leading directly to revenue generation for the company's hypergrowth email marketing, RSS, and blogging platform business.
VP Speakers and Events

Seattle Direct Marketing Association

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 6 months)
Business Development Intern

MailMediary

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2002 — January 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for revenue generation at Mail Mediary and its web application development cousin Web-X, Inc. Identified and closed business with new and existing accounts and managed application development projects throughout the project lifecycle.
Marketing Intern

Cantametrix, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — May 2001 (9 months)

As an consultant at Cantametrix doubling as a student at Pacific Lutheran University, my responsibilities included drafting portions of the company's business plan, profiling competitors in the acoustic fingerprinting space, and calling on P2P networks, music retailers, and other firms to help spur adoption of the company's technology. Cantametrix was sold to Gracenote, a leader in online music recognition technology.
Co-Founder, Student President ePLU

Pacific Lutheran University School of Business

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 8 months)

From scratch, formed an organization consisting of dozens of dedicated students, technical business leaders, and faculty to increase awareness of e-commerce and of the technologies that facilitated the mass consumer adoption of the Internet. Drafted grant proposals that were met to nearly $100,000 to help provide internships to business, computer science, and other technology-inclined students at the University. It remains an important part of PLU's School of Business at http://eplu.plu.edu
Co-Founder, Webmaster

PLU Daily Jolt

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)

Co-founded a student-run campus portal and grew adoption to over 1/3 of the on-campus population during February 2001 (during the great Seattle earthquake). Provided an outlet for students to collaborate with one another and voice opinions about administration and school policies without fear of reprisal or condemnation. Initiated the "Love Monkey" program at PLU, which connected over 200 lucky individuals on campus with their "secret crush."
Technical Intern

Frank Russell Company (Northwestern Mutual)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 — September 2000 (5 months)

Justin Foster’s Education

Pacific Lutheran University

BBA, Information Management, Entrepreneurship, September 1998 — May 2002

Current PLU Students: please feel free to contact me for professional/mentoring advice. I like to help!

Activities and Societies:

President, Society of Information Management, President & Co-Founder, ePLU Electronic Commerce Resource Center, Wind Ensemble, University Orchestra, Resident Assistant
Beijing Foreign Studies University

Minor, Chinese Language (Mandarin), August 2001 — December 2001

Additional Information

Justin Foster’s Websites:

Justin Foster’s Interests:

E-Commerce, Networking, Technology, Globalization, Entrepreneurship, Online Marketing, Email Marketing, Online Video, CRM, Mobile Media, Mobile Marketing, Web Analytics, Blogging, RSS, Futurism, Swimming, Automotive Enthusiast (one never can have a "nice enough" car), dog lover, martini connoissieur, international traveler, relationship builder. I love helping people in general. :-)

Justin Foster’s Groups:

Video Commerce (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videocommerce), Email Marketing Roundtable (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emailroundtable), Direct Marketing Association (DMA) - http://www.sdma.org , Washington Software Association (WSA) http://www.wsa.org , Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) http://www.nwen.org , Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP), Shop.org, PLU Q Club, Pacific Lutheran University, Beijing Foreign Studies University.