Fortney to expand sales team to service growing demand for future-proof identity solutions.
New York, NY – October 21, 2021 – MediaWallah, the identity by design provider to the world’s premier brands, publishers, platforms and agencies, today announced that Shaun Fortney is the company’s new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Fortney plans to expand the sales team to service growing demand for future-proof identity solutions, which has propelled MediaWallah to the leader’s circle of identity solutions and the top third of the 2020 Inc 5000 list.
“Shaun is the right person for our mission to provide our clients with truly custom identity solutions that will future-proof their business as their data needs evolve, and as the ecosystem evolves,” said Nancy Marzouk, CEO and Founder of MediaWallah. “I’m thrilled to bring on Shaun at this pivotal time in our growth. His experience selling identity technologies and data solutions, and his expertise with the world’s leading brands will serve us well as we build out our identity-by-design offering.”
Fortney will be responsible for building out a vertical sales team including direct sales and business development functions to service the company’s growing client roster across financial services, retail, publishing, and more. Fortney joins MediaWallah from Intent IQ, where he was the Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development. At Intent IQ, Fortney successfully built a go-to-market strategy across two completely new patented identity products. He also brought the company into profitability within the first six months of joining through a combination of upsells and new business, and grew the sales team by 300%. Fortney has also held sales leadership roles at Upwave, Drawbridge and Quantcast.
“MediaWallah is a company on the rise, with an extremely relevant offering for clients that need truly custom identity solutions. Companies across verticals, from financial services to CPG, have unique data needs. To truly leverage their data as a competitive asset, they need a partner like MediaWallah. I’m excited to build out the team as we partner with a growing list of brands, agencies and publishers,” said Shaun Fortney, CRO at MediaWallah.
“Shaun is a great addition to MediaWallah’s leadership team, and is joining at the beginning of an exciting phase in the company’s growth. More companies are waking up to the fact that they need identity solutions that are tailored to their unique business needs, and MediaWallah delivers that. The company delivers innovative, bespoke solutions that meet the needs of discerning companies,” said Bill Wise, Chairman of the Board, MediaWallah.
About MediaWallah
MediaWallah provides innovative identity-by-design solutions for the world’s largest brands, publishers, platforms and agencies. MediaWallah is trusted across the industry to deliver a premium, independent solution that provides agility and performance.
Discerning companies are planning their future-proof addressability strategies, looking for solutions that work across channels, IDs, data types and partners. MediaWallah helps companies create 360-degree views of customers and prospects so that they can continue to market to them across multiple channels, regardless of the changes to the market landscape. Companies trust MediaWallah to provide agile privacy-first data capabilities – from onboarding to multi-party computation – to ensure that their identity data is kept safe while also delivering maximum value even as market dynamics evolve over time.
