Ron Kovas
Chief Operating Officer
Ron Kovas has over 30 years of professional experience working with Fortune 500 and small to medium size companies across a broad spectrum of B2C and B2B business and marketing related disciplines. He has strategized, created and executed marketing programs, re-engineered company organizations and operations, consulted small and emerging companies in developing actionable business plans and served as CEO of three venture capital backed start-up companies.
Positions have included 20 years in various senior domestic and international management positions with JWT Group, Inc., the parent company of J. Walter Thompson advertising, Hill & Knowlton Public Relations and SMRB Group (research company), until the purchase by WPP Group in July 1987; President and CEO of the Southam Business Information Group, specializing in on-line business information, magazines, newsletters and business services; President of Sunset Publishing, immediately following the Lane Family sale to Time Warner; President and co-founder of AIM21, a multimedia archiving software development company subsequently sold to Reuters New Media; Founding CEO of AdKnowledge (nee Focalink), an internet software tools company and sold to CMGI; and President and founding partner of i-traffic, a leading interactive marketing services firm which was sold to Omnicom.
Mr. Kovas holds degrees from Stanford University (AB History, BS Economics) and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (MBA).
Key Experience: CEO Management, Advertising and Marketing Communications, B2C and B2B publishing, Interactive Marketing, Software development and VC Start-ups.
