Mark Westlake is the Chief Revenue Officer responsible for all revenue for the company. Prior to TechMediaNetwork, Mark has served as a member of the executive management team for a number of well know web properties: Executive Vice President of Sales and Content of HowStuffWorks, a division of Discovery Communications and as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of About.com, a top 10 Web site owned by The New York Times Company. In each of these positions, Mark helped build very successful web businesses and assisted in the sale of each company - Howstuffworks to Discovery for $250 million and About to The New York Times for $410 million.
Prior to About.com, he served as the Chief Revenue Officer of Streetmail.com and held other sales management positions at Juno ... (United Online) and Cox Interactive Sales, a division of Cox Enterprises. At Cox Interactive, Mr. Westlake helped launch AutoTrader.com, CIMedia, Gamesville (part of the Lycos Network), ETOnline, The Sportingnews.com and Tribune Interactive. In addition to his online experience, Mr. Westlake held sales positions within traditional media companies such as Hearst, Family Media and Times Mirror, as well as agency experience at Geer DuBois and Margeotes Fertitta & Weiss.
Mark is actively engaged in the online industry. He is a member of the advisory board for the Seller Summits run by Upstream Group and a founding member, former board of director and finance committee member for 212, an interactive advertising association serving the metro New York interactive ad community. Additionally, Mr. Westlake sits on the advisory board for the USA Triathlon Association.