Ben Pickering

As CEO Ben guides the strategic direction of the company. He joined Strutta in September 2009 and has been involved with online media for more than ten years. Prior to Strutta Ben worked at Yahoo!, where he played a key role in the first large-scale consumer promotion utilizing user generated content (Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl"). Now he's thrilled to be able to offer marketers of any size the ability to create similar experiences using the Strutta contest platform.

At Yahoo! Ben held senior roles in the display advertising business and worked closely with some of the largest brand advertisers and agencies in the world. Prior to Yahoo! Ben worked in the strategic partnerships group at eBay. He was previously the first person to join the business development team at Spinway, where he helped Spinway become the fastest growing ISP in history through partnerships with major retail brands. He started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, providing transaction support to the firm's global high tech client base on their M&A activity. Ben holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and an M.B.A., both from Stanford University.

Ben has also been known to dabble (poorly, he admits) in CSS and HTML coding.