Business Owner, Senior Product Marketing Executive and General Manager
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Owner at KinMix Inc.
- Past
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- SVP Marketing & Business Dev. at Saywire
- SVP Product Marketing and Creative Dev. at ePals
- VP/GM of Consumer Services at AOL
- Director at Discovery Communications
- Exec. Producer, VP News America Digital Publishing at News Corp.
- Managing Editor, editor and reporter at Wire services and newspapers
- Education
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- Northwestern University
- City University of New York Graduate Center
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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June Herold’s Summary
Senior Product Marketing Executive Overview
• Marketed 30 online products, services and social networks combined, used by 100s of millions of people and responsible for more than $100M of revenue
• Innovator in synchronous technology with patents pending for AOL products
• Envisioned, planned and built new lines of revenue for internet services companies
• Management of domestic and international staffs at AOL, Discovery Inc. and News Corp.
June Herold’s Specialties:
Core competencies: Business-priorities driven marketing; product alignment to consumer and partner needs; brand identity; viral marketing; channel development and creative development
June Herold’s Experience
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Owner
KinMix Inc.
(Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
KinMix Inc. is a provider of meta social networks and collaborative products. General marketing and business strategy consulting. Clients: Stave Inc.; Unitarian Universalist Church; SynapticMash; Discovery Communications Inc. and Saywire
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SVP Marketing & Business Dev.
Saywire
(E-Learning industry)
2008 — March 2009 (1 year)
Responsibilities: Alignment of a social technology platform to serve the K20 academic market and knowledge industries; brand identity; strategy; PR; advertising; partnerships
o Exhibits, ads and PR pulled in 100 districts to Saywire and in reaching more than 150,000 educators and students within 4 months of debut
o Winner, Distinguished Achievement Award 2009 AEP
o Saywire named finalist for Rookie of the Year by EdNet
o Debuted at largest k20 tech trade show, garnering 900 trials -
SVP Product Marketing and Creative Dev.
ePals
(Privately Held; E-Learning industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Responsibilities: Development of online version of the In2Books literacy program; ePals communication and community products; managed 15 staffers in Canada and the U.S.
o Hundreds of schools nationwide signed up for In2books at the seven-year-old company’s debut at an international reading conference
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VP/GM of Consumer Services
AOL
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
1999 — 2006 (7 years)
Responsibilities: Conceived and developed new premium services business for AOL Time Warner Inc. and launched billing system for premium subscriptions. Managed 14 reports and a group of 30 technologists, marketers, managers, and external vendors. The last of several positions at AOL responsible for tens of millions of dollars in revenue combined from instant messaging, social programming and products, and personal finance programming and services. (See full resume)
o Generated $3.5M in revenue in first full revenue year of products
o Established AOL in the elearning market and captured 175,000 paying customers
o Launched the first billing system that enabled AOL to sell to the internet at large and to sell products other than AOL subscriptions
o Negotiated revenue share deals that paid for partner development and met goals
o Leveraged AOL corp. communications for PR and media coverage by the New York Times and USA Today -
Director
Discovery Communications
(Privately Held; DISCA; Broadcast Media industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Led programming for Discovery.com; Animal Planet.Com; TLC.com. Introduced search engine to the network. Aligned online programming with broadcast programming
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Exec. Producer, VP News America Digital Publishing
News Corp.
(Public Company; NWS; Entertainment industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Led the launch and development of TV Guide Entertainment Network, the combined web presence of Fox News, Fox Sports online, and TV Guide Online
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Managing Editor, editor and reporter
Wire services and newspapers
(Newspapers industry)
1987 — 1994 (7 years)
Various reporting, editing and managerial posts at regional and national media and newspaper chains
June Herold’s Education
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Northwestern University
MSJ , Media management and journalism , 1986 — 1987
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City University of New York Graduate Center
Masters program , Art and Art Criticism , 1983 — 1984
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA , Art and economics , 1979 — 1982
Additional Information
June Herold’s Websites:
June Herold’s Interests:
Poetry, Writing, Travel, American Fine Craft Art & Furniture, Lithography, Opera, Classical Piano, Jazz, Cooking, Stave puzzle fanatic (if you are too, meet me at www.StavePuzzlenuts.com), Illustrators of children's books, "The Art of Possibility" by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander
June Herold’s Groups:
• On advisory boards of PNN.com and BusinessRealtime.com
• Dirty Old Ladies of Software: Women executives/innovators in K12 software
• International Society for Technology in Education: Member
• Intel Innovators in Education Technology, 2008
• EdNet, multiple years
• International Reading Association: Member
• Medill School of Journalism Alumni, Northwestern Univ.
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Revedia Group - Internet Retailer, Interactive Media, Online Brand Marketing Professionals Only. -
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DOLS
June Herold’s Honors:
• 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award finalist, Amer. Assoc. of Educ. Publishers. Winner named: June 2009
• 2008 EdNet Rookie of the Year Finalist: most promising eleanring startup
• 2006 Greatest Product, iParenting Media for: StudyBuddy.com (search); AOL Writing Wizard; Step By Step Math; and Learning Games
• Finalist, 2005 Golden Lamp Tech Award, AEP.: AOL Writing Wizard
• Winner, 2005 Best Math Web Site, AEP Assoc.: Step By Step Math
• Pending Patent Applications:
--“Popularity Index” aka “AIM Fight”
--User-Control of Annotation of Digital Items
--Using a Participant List for invitations: On-Line Games
--Electronic Invitations for Online Games
--Leveraging Automated Agents for Chat
• Ohio Newspaper Awards, First Place, Dayton Daily News
• Publisher’s Award, Dayton Daily News
June Herold’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
