The document advertises the BrandSmart Conference happening on June 22nd in Chicago, which is the largest branding conference in the Midwest. It will feature top marketing professionals from companies like Groupon, Cars.com, optionsXpress Holdings, DMI Music & Media Solutions, Deloitte, Northwestern University, the Chicago Blackhawks, Allscripts, and Motorola Mobility. Attendees will learn how to grow their brand and become marketing rock stars from industry leaders like Lee Brown of Groupon.

1. Join the American Marketing “Recognize magic when you see it. Be ready to toss the plan out the window and run with
Association, Chicago Chap- what fate deals you.”
ter on June 22nd for the annual - Led Zeppelin
BrandSmart Conference - the
largest branding conference in the Lee Brown
Midwest. Network with the city’s Groupon
top marketing professionals and hear Senior Vice President Sales
from some of the biggest marketing
rock stars around. You’ll learn from Lee Brown joined Groupon in December of 2010 as their
SVP of National Sales. Lee and his team are focused on
the industry’s top performers what partnering with North America’s top tier brands to fully
it takes to crank up the volume on leverage the Groupon platform.
your brand and become your own
Prior to joining Groupon, Lee was with Yahoo! since
marketing rock star.
1999. Most recently for Yahoo!, Lee served as Yahoo!’s
Vice President East US Sales and Canada Sales, based in
SPEAKER LINE-UP: New York since 2009. In this role, Lee oversaw a regional
Marcie Allen sales team that covered New York, Boston, Atlanta and
MAC Presents Canada and represented close to half of Yahoo!’s North
America media revenue. Lee’s team had a particular focus
on growing revenue and share with customers in all client
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categories across Search, Display (including video, mobile
Cars.com and social advertising) and on Yahoo’s Performance Ad
Network.
Lee Brown
Groupon Lee was Regional Vice President, Sales, based in New York
from 2006-2009. From 2004-2006, he was Senior Director, Global Strategic Partnerships, based
Kirk Chartier in Yahoo!’s Chicago office, responsible for identifying, architecting and managing multi-year
optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. alliances with global Fortune 100 corporations. In that role, Lee also managed a global sales
team responsible for several partnerships,
including ones with Adidas, Hyundai, and
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MasterCard. Lee spent two years in Yahoo!’s
DMI Music & Media Solutions UK office (2003-2004) as Director of Global
Strategic Partnerships. There, he oversaw
Luis Gallardo business development projects, including
Deloitte a European alliance with Living Room
strategy, Yahoo!’s online security protection BrandSmart 2011 Details:
John M. Greening and loyalty program, as well as other global
Northwestern University, Medill partnerships. He began his career at Rexel, When:
Graduate School of Integrated Mar- Inc, the world’s largest electrical distributor, June 22, 2011
in 1996.
keting Communications
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In 2000 and 2001, Lee won the Yahoo!
Dave Knickerbocker 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Super Star Award, which was the highest
Chicago Blackhawks distinction a Yahoo! sales employee could Where:
earn.
Spertus Institute
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Allscripts Lee graduated from Vanderbilt University 610 South Michigan Avenue
with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Chicago, IL 60605-1901
Bill Ogle Engineering in 1996. He is a guest lecturer
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at the McDonough School of Business at
Motorola Mobility, Inc
Georgetown University and was a Board
Member of the Financial Communications
Jeff Ragovin Society in New York.
Buddy Media
Lee currently resides in Bedford, NY with
his wife, Whitney, and their three children.
Despite residing in the Northeast, Lee
remains an avid UK basketball fan.